Red Chili
Red Chili appears in 340 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
Red Chili appears in 340 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.
- 340
- catalogued products
- #1,346
- usage rank of 247,206
- 156
- named brands represented
- 46%
- 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.
Red Chili: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,346 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,346
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 46%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 343 products listing it (mean slot 12.8). Red Chili 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.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Red Chili spans 156 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with A taste of thai, red curry paste; Alder Smoked Chpotle Tartar Sauce; Applewood bacon mustard when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
156 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 232 of 324 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 Red Chili
Across the 340 products on this site that list Red Chili, 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 Red Chili products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 12 | 3.5% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 9 | 2.6% | 4.5% |
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 Red Chili
Products Containing Red Chili
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 340 indexed products containing Red Chili:
Red Chili vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Red Chili: 340 listings averaging 98.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Diced Peaches · Expeller-pressed Canola Oil · Titanium Dioxide Color.
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.
Using the Red Chili evidence
340 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Red Chili are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Red Chili 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. 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.
Red Chili — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Red Chili? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Red Chili, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,346 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Red Chili? ▼
Red Chili ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,346 of 247,206), appearing in 340 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Red Chili so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Red Chili appears in 340 products (#1,346 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Red Chili). 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.