Pimento
Pimento appears in 149 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
Pimento appears in 149 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.
- 149
- catalogued products
- #2,376
- usage rank of 247,206
- 84
- named brands represented
- 53%
- 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.
Pimento: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,376 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,376
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 149 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Averaged label depth puts Pimento in the lower half of the list (53% of list length, mean slot 12.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 10.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pimento spans 84 named brands and is led by the Salted-snacks group. Start with All Natural Green Tomato Salad With Sweet Red Peppers; Barons Picnic macaroni salad; Bbq Sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
84 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 109 of 145 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 Pimento
Across the 149 products on this site that list Pimento, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pimento products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 8 | 5.4% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 5 | 3.4% | 2.4% |
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 Pimento
Products Containing Pimento
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 149 indexed products containing Pimento:
High-volume peers for Pimento beside “0% Dv”
Pimento sits among other busy catalog rows (149 products, mean score 98.7/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: 0% Dv · Cultured Pasteurized Whole Milk · Enzyme Modified Soy Protein. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Pimento record
Start from Pimento's 149 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Pimento and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Pimento with a peer such as “0% Dv” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pimento? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pimento, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,376 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pimento? ▼
Pimento ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,376 of 247,206), appearing in 149 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Pimento so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pimento appears in 149 products (#2,376 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pimento). 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.