Peppers
Peppers appears in 1,308 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
Peppers appears in 1,308 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.
- 1,308
- catalogued products
- #555
- usage rank of 247,206
- 473
- named brands represented
- 38%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 284 of 1308 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 6 - Layer Dip; 6-layer dip; A truily original pickle! to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Peppers itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
284 of 1,308 linked records have some flagged component
All 1250 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Peppers: top-decile catalog footprint (#555 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #555
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 38%
- Mean relative depth 38% across 1,308 parsed labels, slot 11.1 on average. Peppers tends to sit in the upper 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 else is usually in the same product as Peppers
Across the 1,308 products on this site that list 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 2x more often with Peppers than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Peppers products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 123 | 9.4% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 74 | 5.7% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 60 | 4.6% | 1.3% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 48 | 3.7% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 32 | 2.4% | 4.5% |
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 Peppers
Products Containing Peppers
High-volume slice (16 of 1,308) for products naming Peppers:
High-volume peers for Peppers beside “Ester Gum”
High-volume peers for Peppers: 1,308 products, mean screening score 95.3/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Ester Gum · Crushed Tomatoes · Organic Flax Seeds. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Peppers evidence
Use the 1,308-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Peppers to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Peppers next to “Crushed Tomatoes” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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
Does Peppers carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Peppers. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Peppers? ▼
Peppers ranks in the top decile by product count (#555 of 247,206), appearing in 1,308 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Peppers so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Peppers appears in 1,308 products (#555 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (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.