Jalapeno Peppers

Jalapeno Peppers appears in 4,176 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 Peppers appears in 4,176 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.

4,176
catalogued products
#247
usage rank of 247,206
1,057
named brands represented
46%
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 Jalapeno Peppers - usage rank #247

Usage rank
#247
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
46%
Mean relative depth 46% across 4,186 parsed labels, slot 12.5 on average. Jalapeno Peppers tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 16.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Jalapeno Peppers spans 1057 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 100 Calorie Guacamole Snack Packs; 100% all natural medium salsa, medium; 100% Artisan Foods, 100% Tamales, Jalapeno Pepper & Queso Fresco when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

1057 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 2852 of 4093 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 Peppers

Across the 4,176 products on this site that list Jalapeno Peppers, 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: +0.5ppCaramel Coloring+0.5ppSodium Nitrite: +1.3ppSodium Nitrite+1.3ppCarrageenan: -1.6ppCarrageenan-1.6ppYellow 5: -2.5ppYellow 5-2.5ppYellow 6: -2.3ppYellow 6-2.3pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Jalapeno Peppers products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
0.5pp
Sodium Nitrite
1.3pp
Carrageenan
-1.6pp
Yellow 5
-2.5pp
Yellow 6
-2.3pp
Additive Shared products Share of Jalapeno Peppers products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 260 6.2% 5.7%
Sodium Nitrite 153 3.7% 2.4%
Carrageenan 121 2.9% 4.5%
Yellow 5 96 2.3% 4.8%
Yellow 6 48 1.1% 3.4%

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 Peppers

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 859095100105 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Jalapeno Peppers
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Jalapeno Peppers vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Jalapeno Peppers sits among other busy catalog rows (4,176 products, mean score 97.3/100). Nearest count peers include “Apple Cider Vinegar”, “Annatto Extract”, “Zinc Oxide”. 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

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Using the Jalapeno Peppers evidence

Start from Jalapeno Peppers's 4,176 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Jalapeno Peppers before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
  • 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.

Jalapeno Peppers — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Jalapeno Peppers?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Jalapeno Peppers, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#247 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Jalapeno Peppers?

Jalapeno Peppers ranks in the top decile by product count (#247 of 247,206), appearing in 4,176 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Jalapeno Peppers so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Jalapeno Peppers appears in 4,176 products (#247 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Jalapeno Peppers). 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.