Habanero Pepper
Habanero Pepper appears in 235 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 Pepper appears in 235 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.
- 235
- catalogued products
- #1,761
- usage rank of 247,206
- 117
- named brands represented
- 63%
- 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 Habanero Pepper - usage rank #1,761
- Usage rank
- #1,761
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 235 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 63%
- Mean relative depth 63% across 235 parsed labels, slot 12.3 on average. Habanero Pepper tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Habanero Pepper spans 117 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with A&B American Style, More Heat Small Batch Pepper Sauce; A&B American Style, Pepper Sauce, Garlic; A&B American Style, Small Batch Pepper Sauce, Original when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
117 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 159 of 222 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 Pepper
Across the 235 products on this site that list Habanero 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 Habanero Pepper products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 17 | 7.2% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 8 | 3.4% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 6 | 2.6% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 5 | 2.1% | 4.8% |
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 Pepper
Products Containing Habanero Pepper
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 235 indexed products containing Habanero Pepper:
High-volume peers for Habanero Pepper beside “Added To Maintain Freshness”
Habanero Pepper sits among other busy catalog rows (235 products, mean score 96.5/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Added To Maintain Freshness · Celery Extract · Diluted With Water To 5% Acidity. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Habanero Pepper evidence
Use the 235-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Habanero Pepper to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Habanero Pepper with a peer such as “Added To Maintain Freshness” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Habanero Pepper — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Habanero Pepper? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Habanero Pepper, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,761 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Habanero Pepper? ▼
Habanero Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,761 of 247,206), appearing in 235 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Habanero Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Habanero Pepper appears in 235 products (#1,761 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Habanero 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.