Red Chili Flakes
Red Chili Flakes appears in 44 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 Flakes appears in 44 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.
- 44
- catalogued products
- #5,420
- usage rank of 247,206
- 22
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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 Flakes: top-decile catalog footprint (#5,420 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,420
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 86 others that also appear in exactly 44 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Averaged label depth puts Red Chili Flakes in the lower half of the list (74% of list length, mean slot 20.4). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Red Chili Flakes spans 22 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with Barbecue sauce; Chicken & Mango Salsa Burritos; Chicken Fajitas when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
22 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 25 of 41 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 Flakes
Across the 44 products on this site that list Red Chili Flakes, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2x more often with Red Chili Flakes than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Red Chili Flakes products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 11.4% | 5.7% |
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 Flakes
Products Containing Red Chili Flakes
16 busy labels from the 44 indexed products that list Red Chili Flakes:
High-volume peers for Red Chili Flakes
Red Chili Flakes sits among other busy catalog rows (44 products, mean score 99.3/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Red Chili Flakes page
Start from Red Chili Flakes's 44 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Red Chili Flakes and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Red Chili Flakes
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Red Chili Flakes? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Red Chili Flakes, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,420 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Red Chili Flakes? ▼
Red Chili Flakes ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,420 of 247,206), appearing in 44 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Red Chili Flakes so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Red Chili Flakes appears in 44 products (#5,420 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Red Chili Flakes). 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.