Ground Cayenne Peppers
Ground Cayenne Peppers appears in 25 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 Cayenne Peppers appears in 25 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.
- 25
- catalogued products
- #8,001
- usage rank of 247,206
- 11
- named brands represented
- 54%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Ground Cayenne Peppers - usage rank #8,001
- Usage rank
- #8,001
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 25 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 54%
- Averaged label depth puts Ground Cayenne Peppers in the lower half of the list (54% of list length, mean slot 22.4). 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 12% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ground Cayenne Peppers spans 11 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Cajun Mix; Cajun Savory Mix; Cajun savory mix when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
11 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 25 of 25 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 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 Cayenne Peppers
Products Containing Ground Cayenne Peppers
16 busy labels from the 25 indexed products that list Ground Cayenne Peppers:
Ground Cayenne Peppers vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Ground Cayenne Peppers: 25 products, mean screening score 97/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Ground Cayenne Peppers page
Start from Ground Cayenne Peppers's 25 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Ground Cayenne Peppers and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Ground Cayenne Peppers — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Ground Cayenne Peppers? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ground Cayenne Peppers, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#8,001 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ground Cayenne Peppers? ▼
Ground Cayenne Peppers ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,001 of 247,206), appearing in 25 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ground Cayenne Peppers so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ground Cayenne Peppers appears in 25 products (#8,001 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ground Cayenne 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.