Ground Chili Pepper
Ground Chili Pepper appears in 76 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 Chili Pepper appears in 76 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.
- 76
- catalogued products
- #3,767
- usage rank of 247,206
- 32
- named brands represented
- 71%
- 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 Chili Pepper - usage rank #3,767
- Usage rank
- #3,767
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 34 others that also appear in exactly 76 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Averaged label depth puts Ground Chili Pepper in the lower half of the list (71% of list length, mean slot 26.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ground Chili Pepper spans 32 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with Bbq chicken cauliflower crust; BBQ Chicken Pizza; Bbq sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
32 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 61 of 71 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 Chili Pepper
Across the 76 products on this site that list Ground Chili 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.8x more often with Ground Chili Pepper than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ground Chili Pepper products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 12 | 15.8% | 5.7% |
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 Chili Pepper
Products Containing Ground Chili Pepper
High-volume slice (16 of 76) for products naming Ground Chili Pepper:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Aspartame+”)
High-volume peers for Ground Chili Pepper: 76 products, mean screening score 98.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Aspartame+”, “Bacillus Subtilis”, “Batter Mix”. 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 Ground Chili Pepper evidence
Start from Ground Chili Pepper's 76 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Ground Chili Pepper before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Ground Chili Pepper next to “Bacillus Subtilis” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Ground Chili Pepper
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Ground Chili Pepper? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ground Chili Pepper, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,767 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ground Chili Pepper? ▼
Ground Chili Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,767 of 247,206), appearing in 76 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ground Chili Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ground Chili Pepper appears in 76 products (#3,767 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ground Chili 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.