Peppermint Oil

Peppermint Oil appears in 1,292 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 Oil appears in 1,292 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.

1,292
catalogued products
#557
usage rank of 247,206
404
named brands represented
74%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Audit the co-occurring flags first

52.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Peppermint Oil as the trigger. Open records such as 18 Mini Candy Canes; 365 everyday value, baked naan chips, green chili chutney; 67% Cacao Mint Dark Chocolate and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 75.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 74% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

52.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1189 of 1264 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

Peppermint Oil sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#557 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#557
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 1,306 products, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
74%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,306 products listing it (mean slot 14.5). Peppermint Oil 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.

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.

What else is usually in the same product as Peppermint Oil

Across the 1,292 products on this site that list Peppermint Oil, 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 6.2x more often with Peppermint Oil than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +28.3ppRed 40+28.3ppBlue 1: +16ppBlue 1+16ppTitanium Dioxide: +17.9ppTitanium Dioxide+17.9ppYellow 5: +8.8ppYellow 5+8.8ppRed 3: +7.1ppRed 3+7.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Peppermint Oil products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Red 40
28.3pp
Blue 1
16pp
Titanium Dioxide
17.9pp
Yellow 5
8.8pp
Red 3
7.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Peppermint Oil products Share of all products
Red 40 436 33.7% 5.4%
Blue 1 261 20.2% 4.2%
Titanium Dioxide 259 20% 2.1%
Yellow 5 176 13.6% 4.8%
Red 3 106 8.2% 1.1%

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 Oil

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 20406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Peppermint Oil
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.

High-volume peers for Peppermint Oil beside “Grain Vinegar”

Peppermint Oil sits among other busy catalog rows (1,292 products, mean score 75.3/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Grain Vinegar; Calcium Silicate; Stevia. 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.

Next steps from the Peppermint Oil page

Use the 1,292-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Peppermint Oil — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Peppermint Oil sits in heavily flagged products?

52.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Peppermint Oil is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Peppermint Oil?

Peppermint Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#557 of 247,206), appearing in 1,292 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Peppermint Oil so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Peppermint Oil appears in 1,292 products (#557 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Peppermint Oil). 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.