Jalapeno Pepper
Jalapeno Pepper appears in 1,555 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
Jalapeno Pepper appears in 1,555 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.
- 1,555
- catalogued products
- #499
- usage rank of 247,206
- 485
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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.
Jalapeno Pepper: top-decile catalog footprint (#499 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #499
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 1,559 products, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Mean relative depth 56% across 1,559 parsed labels, slot 15.7 on average. Jalapeno Pepper tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Jalapeno Pepper spans 485 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 365 everyday value, cantina style salsa; 365 everyday value, cantina style salsa, kick o' jalapeno; 365 everyday value, fire roasted cantina style salsa when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
485 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1107 of 1521 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 Jalapeno Pepper
Across the 1,555 products on this site that list Jalapeno 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 Jalapeno Pepper products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 100 | 6.4% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 59 | 3.8% | 4.8% |
| Carrageenan | 58 | 3.7% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 6 | 53 | 3.4% | 3.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 48 | 3.1% | 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 Jalapeno Pepper
Products Containing Jalapeno Pepper
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,555 indexed products containing Jalapeno Pepper:
Jalapeno Pepper vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Jalapeno Pepper: 1,555 listings averaging 95.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: White Wine; Mono-and Diglycerides; Red Peppers.
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 Jalapeno Pepper record
Use the 1,555-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Jalapeno Pepper before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Jalapeno Pepper? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Jalapeno Pepper, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#499 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Jalapeno Pepper? ▼
Jalapeno Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#499 of 247,206), appearing in 1,555 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Jalapeno Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Jalapeno Pepper appears in 1,555 products (#499 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Jalapeno 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.