Ground Red Pepper
Ground Red Pepper appears in 163 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 Red Pepper appears in 163 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.
- 163
- catalogued products
- #2,231
- usage rank of 247,206
- 73
- named brands represented
- 77%
- 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: 73 of 163 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 365 everyday value, tamari rice crackers; Alfredo Arrabbiata; All Natural Hommus Everything to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Ground Red Pepper itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
73 of 163 linked records have some flagged component
All 161 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.
Ground Red Pepper: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,231 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,231
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 163 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 77%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 163 products listing it (mean slot 19.9). Ground Red Pepper usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Ground Red Pepper
Across the 163 products on this site that list Ground Red 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 6.8x more often with Ground Red Pepper than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ground Red Pepper products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 63 | 38.7% | 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 Red Pepper
Products Containing Ground Red Pepper
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 163 indexed products containing Ground Red Pepper:
High-volume peers for Ground Red Pepper beside “Organic Alfalfa”
High-volume peers for Ground Red Pepper: 163 products, mean screening score 96.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Organic Alfalfa”, “Carboxymethyl Cellulose”, “Cooked Enriched Macaroni Product”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Ground Red Pepper page
Use the 163-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Ground Red Pepper and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Ground Red Pepper next to “Carboxymethyl Cellulose” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Red Pepper
Does Ground Red Pepper 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 Ground Red Pepper. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ground Red Pepper? ▼
Ground Red Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,231 of 247,206), appearing in 163 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ground Red Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ground Red Pepper appears in 163 products (#2,231 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ground Red 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.