Jalapeño
Jalapeño appears in 66 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
Jalapeño appears in 66 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.
- 66
- catalogued products
- #4,131
- usage rank of 247,206
- 43
- named brands represented
- 57%
- 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.
Jalapeño sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,131 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,131
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 47 others that also appear in exactly 66 products, listed in more products than 98.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 57%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 66 products listing it (mean slot 13.5). Jalapeño 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.
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 9.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Jalapeño spans 43 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Baja Bowl; Black Bean Quinoa Burger; Breakfast Burritos Sausage, Egg & Cheese 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.
43 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 48 of 62 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 Jalapeño
Across the 66 products on this site that list Jalapeño, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 3.2x more often with Jalapeño than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Jalapeño products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 5 | 7.6% | 2.4% |
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 Jalapeño
Products Containing Jalapeño
16 busy labels from the 66 indexed products that list Jalapeño:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Almond Protein”)
Jalapeño sits among other busy catalog rows (66 products, mean score 98.8/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Almond Protein · Alpha Amylase · Arôme. 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.
What to do with this Jalapeño record
66 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Jalapeño are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Jalapeño to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Jalapeño next to “Alpha Amylase” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Jalapeño
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Jalapeño? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Jalapeño, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,131 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Jalapeño? ▼
Jalapeño ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,131 of 247,206), appearing in 66 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Jalapeño so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Jalapeño appears in 66 products (#4,131 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Jalapeño). 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.