Dried Red Chile Peppers
Dried Red Chile Peppers appears in 90 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 Peppers appears in 90 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.
- 90
- catalogued products
- #3,385
- usage rank of 247,206
- 36
- named brands represented
- 44%
- 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.
Dried Red Chile Peppers: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,385 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,385
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 26 others that also appear in exactly 90 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 44%
- Averaged label depth puts Dried Red Chile Peppers in the upper half of the list (44% of list length, mean slot 15.6). 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dried Red Chile Peppers spans 36 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Beef Barbacoa Snack Size Burrito Bowl; Beef Tamales; Bien good, organic 7 veggie pasta & enchilada sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
36 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 69 of 89 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 Dried Red Chile Peppers
Across the 90 products on this site that list Dried Red Chile 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dried Red Chile Peppers products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 6.7% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 5 | 5.6% | 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 Dried Red Chile Peppers
Products Containing Dried Red Chile Peppers
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 90 indexed products containing Dried Red Chile Peppers:
High-volume peers for Dried Red Chile Peppers beside “Added For Freshness”
Top-decile company for Dried Red Chile Peppers: 90 listings averaging 98.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Added For Freshness; Organic Agave Fiber; B. Bifidum.
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 Dried Red Chile Peppers record
Use the 90-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Dried Red Chile Peppers and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Dried Red Chile Peppers — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Dried Red Chile Peppers? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dried Red Chile Peppers, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,385 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dried Red Chile Peppers? ▼
Dried Red Chile Peppers ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,385 of 247,206), appearing in 90 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dried Red Chile Peppers so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dried Red Chile Peppers appears in 90 products (#3,385 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dried Red Chile 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.