Green Chile Peppers

Green Chile Peppers appears in 392 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 Chile Peppers appears in 392 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.

392
catalogued products
#1,219
usage rank of 247,206
109
named brands represented
29%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 91 of 392 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Authentic Mexican Recipe Salsa; Authentic salsa del rio; Avocado hot sauce to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Green Chile Peppers itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

91 of 392 linked records have some flagged component

All 382 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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 Chile Peppers sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,219 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#1,219
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 392 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
29%
Averaged label depth puts Green Chile Peppers in the upper half of the list (29% of list length, mean slot 12.0). 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 Chile Peppers

Across the 392 products on this site that list Green Chile 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 2.4x more often with Green Chile Peppers than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +7.8ppCaramel Coloring+7.8ppCarrageenan: +0.1ppCarrageenan+0.1ppSodium Nitrite: -0.4ppSodium Nitrite-0.4ppYellow 5: -2.8ppYellow 5-2.8ppYellow 6: -1.9ppYellow 6-1.9pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Green Chile 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
7.8pp
Carrageenan
0.1pp
Sodium Nitrite
-0.4pp
Yellow 5
-2.8pp
Yellow 6
-1.9pp
Additive Shared products Share of Green Chile Peppers products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 53 13.5% 5.7%
Carrageenan 18 4.6% 4.5%
Sodium Nitrite 8 2% 2.4%
Yellow 5 8 2% 4.8%
Yellow 6 6 1.5% 3.4%

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 Chile 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 20406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Green Chile 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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Potassium Hydroxide”)

Green Chile Peppers sits among other busy catalog rows (392 products, mean score 96.7/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Potassium Hydroxide · Sesame Seed Oil · Sorbic Acid As A Preservative. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Green Chile Peppers evidence

Start from Green Chile Peppers's 392 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Green Chile Peppers before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Place Green Chile Peppers next to “Sesame Seed Oil” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

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

Questions readers ask about Green Chile Peppers

Does Green Chile 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 Chile 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 Chile Peppers?

Green Chile Peppers ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,219 of 247,206), appearing in 392 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Green Chile Peppers so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Green Chile Peppers appears in 392 products (#1,219 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Green Chile 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.