Dried Red Chile Pepper
Dried Red Chile Pepper appears in 33 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
Dried Red Chile Pepper appears in 33 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.
- 33
- catalogued products
- #6,578
- usage rank of 247,206
- 17
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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 Dried Red Chile Pepper - usage rank #6,578
- Usage rank
- #6,578
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 168 others that also appear in exactly 33 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 49%
- Averaged label depth puts Dried Red Chile Pepper in the upper half of the list (49% of list length, mean slot 12.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dried Red Chile Pepper spans 17 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Beef steak burrito; Black Bean & Corn Enchilada; Enchilada sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
17 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 20 of 32 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.
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 Dried Red Chile Pepper
Products Containing Dried Red Chile Pepper
16 busy labels from the 33 indexed products that list Dried Red Chile Pepper:
Dried Red Chile Pepper vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Dried Red Chile Pepper: 33 listings averaging 97.7/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Dried Red Chile Pepper evidence
33 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Dried Red Chile Pepper are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Dried Red Chile Pepper to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Dried Red Chile Pepper
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Dried Red Chile Pepper? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dried Red Chile Pepper, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,578 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dried Red Chile Pepper? ▼
Dried Red Chile Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,578 of 247,206), appearing in 33 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dried Red Chile Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dried Red Chile Pepper appears in 33 products (#6,578 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dried Red Chile Pepper). 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.