Red Pepper
Red Pepper appears in 3,482 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 Pepper appears in 3,482 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.
- 3,482
- catalogued products
- #274
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,075
- named brands represented
- 65%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 719 of 3482 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 10 bean soup mix; 18g Protein Black Bean Burger; 2 Alarm Chili Kit to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Red Pepper itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
719 of 3,482 linked records have some flagged component
All 3329 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Red Pepper: top-decile catalog footprint (#274 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #274
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 3,491 products listing it (mean slot 16.2). Red Pepper usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 else is usually in the same product as Red Pepper
Across the 3,482 products on this site that list Red 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.6x more often with Red Pepper than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Red Pepper products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 316 | 9.1% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 188 | 5.4% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 96 | 2.8% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 90 | 2.6% | 1.3% |
| BHA | 65 | 1.9% | 0.7% |
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 Pepper
Products Containing Red Pepper
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 3,482 indexed products containing Red Pepper:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Chicken Broth”)
High-volume peers for Red Pepper: 3,482 products, mean screening score 96.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Chicken Broth · Dextrin · Gum Acacia. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Red Pepper record
3,482 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Red Pepper are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Red Pepper and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Red Pepper next to “Dextrin” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Red Pepper carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Red Pepper. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Red Pepper? ▼
Red Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#274 of 247,206), appearing in 3,482 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Red Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Red Pepper appears in 3,482 products (#274 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Red 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.