Red Chili Pepper
Red Chili Pepper appears in 396 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 Pepper appears in 396 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.
- 396
- catalogued products
- #1,200
- usage rank of 247,206
- 147
- named brands represented
- 61%
- 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 Pepper: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,200 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,200
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 399 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 61%
- Averaged label depth puts Red Chili Pepper in the lower half of the list (61% of list length, mean slot 19.0). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Red Chili Pepper spans 147 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 365 everyday value, cheese enchiladas; 365 everyday value, crushed red pepper; A&B American Style, More Heat Small Batch Pepper Sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
147 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 304 of 382 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 Pepper
Across the 396 products on this site that list Red Chili Pepper, 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 Pepper products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 31 | 7.8% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 13 | 3.3% | 5.4% |
| Carrageenan | 9 | 2.3% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 6 | 8 | 2% | 3.4% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 7 | 1.8% | 1.3% |
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 Pepper
Products Containing Red Chili Pepper
High-volume slice (16 of 396) for products naming Red Chili Pepper:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Pasteurized Part-skim Cow's Milk”)
Red Chili Pepper sits among other busy catalog rows (396 products, mean score 97.1/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Pasteurized Part-skim Cow's Milk · Vitamin A Palmitate And Vitamin D3 · Figs. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Red Chili Pepper record
Use the 396-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Red Chili Pepper and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Red Chili Pepper with a peer such as “Pasteurized Part-skim Cow's Milk” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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.
Red Chili Pepper — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Red Chili Pepper? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Red Chili Pepper, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,200 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Red Chili Pepper? ▼
Red Chili Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,200 of 247,206), appearing in 396 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Red Chili Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Red Chili Pepper appears in 396 products (#1,200 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Red Chili 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.