Green Bell Peppers

Green Bell Peppers appears in 1,176 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

Green Bell Peppers appears in 1,176 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.

1,176
catalogued products
#600
usage rank of 247,206
396
named brands represented
49%
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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 246 of 1176 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 Hott Sauce; 3 pepper & onion blend onions, green bell peppers, red bell peppers, yellow bell peppers; A spicy yemeni style zhoug salsa featuring piquant to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Green Bell Peppers itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

246 of 1,176 linked records have some flagged component

All 1127 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.

Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.

Green Bell Peppers: top-decile catalog footprint (#600 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#600
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
49%
Averaged label depth puts Green Bell Peppers in the upper half of the list (49% of list length, mean slot 15.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

What else is usually in the same product as Green Bell Peppers

Across the 1,176 products on this site that list Green Bell Peppers, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.7x more often with Green Bell Peppers than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +3.9ppCaramel Coloring+3.9ppSodium Nitrite: +3.9ppSodium Nitrite+3.9ppBHT: +4.2ppBHT+4.2ppBHA: +4.5ppBHA+4.5ppCarrageenan: +0.1ppCarrageenan+0.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Green Bell Peppers products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
3.9pp
Sodium Nitrite
3.9pp
BHT
4.2pp
BHA
4.5pp
Carrageenan
0.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Green Bell Peppers products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 113 9.6% 5.7%
Sodium Nitrite 74 6.3% 2.4%
BHT 62 5.3% 1.1%
BHA 61 5.2% 0.7%
Carrageenan 54 4.6% 4.5%

Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 16 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 Green Bell Peppers

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Green Bell Peppers
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Green Bell Peppers vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Green Bell Peppers: 1,176 products, mean screening score 95.6/100. Nearest count peers include “L-cysteine”, “Orange”, “Green Bell Pepper”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar product count

Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the Green Bell Peppers evidence

Start from Green Bell Peppers's 1,176 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Green Bell Peppers before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Compare Green Bell Peppers with a peer such as “L-cysteine” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Green Bell Peppers — common follow-ups

Does Green Bell Peppers carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Green Bell Peppers. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Green Bell Peppers?

Green Bell Peppers ranks in the top decile by product count (#600 of 247,206), appearing in 1,176 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Green Bell Peppers so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Green Bell Peppers appears in 1,176 products (#600 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Green Bell Peppers). 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.