Peppermint
Peppermint appears in 241 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
Peppermint appears in 241 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.
- 241
- catalogued products
- #1,724
- usage rank of 247,206
- 115
- named brands represented
- 52%
- 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.
Peppermint: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,724 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,724
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 5 others that also appear in exactly 241 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 52%
- Averaged label depth puts Peppermint in the lower half of the list (52% of list length, mean slot 9.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Peppermint spans 115 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% organic herbal tea; Advanced Perfect Prenatal Multivitamin; Amazing grass, green superfood, whole food nutrition bar, original when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 93.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
115 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 132 of 223 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 Peppermint
Across the 241 products on this site that list Peppermint, 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. Red 40 shows up about 1.6x more often with Peppermint than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Peppermint products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 21 | 8.7% | 5.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 13 | 5.4% | 2.1% |
| Blue 1 | 13 | 5.4% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 8 | 3.3% | 4.8% |
| Aspartame | 6 | 2.5% | 0.9% |
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 Peppermint
Products Containing Peppermint
High-volume slice (16 of 241) for products naming Peppermint:
High-volume peers for Peppermint beside “Chick Peas”
Peppermint sits among other busy catalog rows (241 products, mean score 93.9/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Chick Peas; Chocolate Chunks; Karaya Gum. 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.
Next steps from the Peppermint page
241 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Peppermint are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Peppermint and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Peppermint? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Peppermint, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,724 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Peppermint? ▼
Peppermint ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,724 of 247,206), appearing in 241 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 Peppermint so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Peppermint appears in 241 products (#1,724 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Peppermint). 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.