Pimentos
Pimentos appears in 125 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
Pimentos appears in 125 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.
- 125
- catalogued products
- #2,692
- usage rank of 247,206
- 67
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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.
Pimentos: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,692 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,692
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 22 others that also appear in exactly 125 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Averaged label depth puts Pimentos in the lower half of the list (60% of list length, mean slot 17.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pimentos spans 67 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with Antipasto Delight; Antipesto Delight; Augusta's, jalapeno pimento cheese gourmet spread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
67 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 90 of 122 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 Pimentos
Across the 125 products on this site that list Pimentos, 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 Pimentos products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 6 | 4.8% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 5 | 4% | 4.8% |
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 Pimentos
Products Containing Pimentos
16 busy labels from the 125 indexed products that list Pimentos:
Pimentos vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Pimentos: 125 listings averaging 97.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Aluminum Free Baking Powder · Annatto Extracts · Apple Concentrate.
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.
What to do with this Pimentos record
125 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Pimentos are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Pimentos before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Pimentos next to “Annatto Extracts” (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
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pimentos? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pimentos, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,692 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pimentos? ▼
Pimentos ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,692 of 247,206), appearing in 125 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Pimentos so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pimentos appears in 125 products (#2,692 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pimentos). 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.