Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste
Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste appears in 12 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste appears in 12 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 12
- catalogued products
- #13,357
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 37%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste: top-decile catalog footprint (#13,357 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #13,357
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 832 others that also appear in exactly 12 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Averaged label depth puts Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste in the upper half of the list (37% of list length, mean slot 17.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste spans 8 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Korean Barbecue & Wing Sauce, Korean Barbecue & Wing; Korean BBQ Style Beef Bowl; Korean bbq-style chik’n when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
8 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 10 of 12 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 12 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste
Products Containing Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste
A sample of 12 high-volume listings among the 12 indexed products containing Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste:
High-volume peers for Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste
Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste sits among other busy catalog rows (12 products, mean score 99.6/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste evidence
12 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#13,357 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste? ▼
Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste ranks in the top decile by product count (#13,357 of 247,206), appearing in 12 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste appears in 12 products (#13,357 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Gochujang Hot Pepper Paste). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.