Pepsin
Pepsin carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 6 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Pepsin appears in 6 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 6
- catalogued products
- #21,732
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- named brands represented
- 37%
- 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 Pepsin - usage rank #21,732
- Usage rank
- #21,732
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,975 others that also appear in exactly 6 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 6 products listing it (mean slot 8.2). Pepsin usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pepsin spans 6 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with Advanced Digestive Enzymes; Advanced Digestive Enzymes; Betaine HCl when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 83.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
6 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 6 of 6 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.
Function
ENZYME
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 6 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 Pepsin
Products Containing Pepsin
High-volume slice (6 of 6) for products naming Pepsin:
Pepsin vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Pepsin: 6 products, mean screening score 83.3/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Pepsin record
6 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Pepsin are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Pepsin to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Pepsin
What do the source ratings say about Pepsin? ▼
Pepsin has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 16.7% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pepsin? ▼
Pepsin ranks in the top decile by product count (#21,732 of 247,206), appearing in 6 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Pepsin do in food? ▼
Pepsin is recorded as a enzyme in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pepsin). 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.