Habanero
Habanero appears in 120 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
Habanero appears in 120 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.
- 120
- catalogued products
- #2,769
- usage rank of 247,206
- 67
- named brands represented
- 59%
- 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.
Habanero sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,769 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,769
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 16 others that also appear in exactly 120 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 59%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 120 products listing it (mean slot 12.0). Habanero usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 10.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Habanero spans 67 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 1 Hott Sauce; Addiction Sauces, Habanero Hot Sauce; Amy Lasley's, Rocky Mountain, Salsa, Spicy when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
67 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 71 of 115 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 Habanero
Across the 120 products on this site that list Habanero, 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 Habanero products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 10 | 8.3% | 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 Habanero
Products Containing Habanero
High-volume slice (16 of 120) for products naming Habanero:
High-volume peers for Habanero beside “Arrowroot Flour”
High-volume peers for Habanero: 120 products, mean screening score 98.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Arrowroot Flour”, “Chocolatey Coating”, “Cooking Wine”. 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.
Next steps from the Habanero page
120 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Habanero are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Habanero to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Habanero with a peer such as “Arrowroot Flour” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Habanero — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Habanero? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Habanero, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,769 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Habanero? ▼
Habanero ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,769 of 247,206), appearing in 120 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Habanero so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Habanero appears in 120 products (#2,769 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Habanero). 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.