Ground Black Pepper
Ground Black Pepper appears in 246 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
Ground Black Pepper appears in 246 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.
- 246
- catalogued products
- #1,700
- usage rank of 247,206
- 100
- named brands represented
- 79%
- 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.
Ground Black Pepper sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,700 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,700
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 246 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 79%
- Averaged label depth puts Ground Black Pepper near the end of the captured list (79% of list length, mean slot 17.8). 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ground Black Pepper spans 100 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 2 minute marinade garlic and herb; Abobo chicken enchiladas; Abodo with chipotle when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
100 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 141 of 216 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Ground Black Pepper
Across the 246 products on this site that list Ground Black Pepper, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ground Black Pepper products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 21 | 8.5% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 10 | 4.1% | 2.4% |
| BHT | 9 | 3.7% | 1.1% |
| Carrageenan | 7 | 2.8% | 4.5% |
| BHA | 6 | 2.4% | 0.7% |
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 Ground Black Pepper
Products Containing Ground Black Pepper
High-volume slice (16 of 246) for products naming Ground Black Pepper:
Ground Black Pepper vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Ground Black Pepper: 246 listings averaging 97.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Coconut Flakes · Mushroom Extract · Protein.
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 Ground Black Pepper evidence
Use the 246-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Ground Black Pepper before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Ground Black Pepper next to “Mushroom Extract” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Ground Black Pepper
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Ground Black Pepper? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ground Black Pepper, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,700 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ground Black Pepper? ▼
Ground Black Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,700 of 247,206), appearing in 246 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ground Black Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ground Black Pepper appears in 246 products (#1,700 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ground Black Pepper). 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.