Red Pepper Flake
Red Pepper Flake appears in 27 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 Flake appears in 27 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.
- 27
- catalogued products
- #7,605
- usage rank of 247,206
- 12
- named brands represented
- 68%
- 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 Pepper Flake: top-decile catalog footprint (#7,605 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,605
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 185 others that also appear in exactly 27 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 68%
- Mean relative depth 68% across 27 parsed labels, slot 16.8 on average. Red Pepper Flake tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Red Pepper Flake spans 12 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Ag Standard, California Chile Blend Smoke Almonds; Ag Standard, Smoked Almonds; Bar, chicken sriracha when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
12 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 18 of 26 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.
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 Flake
Products Containing Red Pepper Flake
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 27 indexed products containing Red Pepper Flake:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Red Pepper Flake: 27 listings averaging 96.1/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Red Pepper Flake page
Start from Red Pepper Flake's 27 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Red Pepper Flake to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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 Pepper Flake
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Red Pepper Flake? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Red Pepper Flake, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#7,605 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Red Pepper Flake? ▼
Red Pepper Flake ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,605 of 247,206), appearing in 27 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Red Pepper Flake so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Red Pepper Flake appears in 27 products (#7,605 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Red Pepper Flake). 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.