Red Pepper Flakes
Red Pepper Flakes appears in 275 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 Flakes appears in 275 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.
- 275
- catalogued products
- #1,569
- usage rank of 247,206
- 103
- named brands represented
- 79%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Red Pepper Flakes - usage rank #1,569
- Usage rank
- #1,569
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 275 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 79%
- Mean relative depth 79% across 275 parsed labels, slot 21.8 on average. Red Pepper Flakes tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Red Pepper Flakes spans 103 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with 1 Hott Sauce; Alarm Chili Portabella Mushrooms; Barbecue 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.
103 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 159 of 257 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 Pepper Flakes
Across the 275 products on this site that list Red Pepper 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 2.6x more often with Red Pepper Flakes than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Red Pepper Flakes products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 17 | 6.2% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 12 | 4.4% | 5.7% |
| BHT | 11 | 4% | 1.1% |
| BHA | 10 | 3.6% | 0.7% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 1.8% | 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 Pepper Flakes
Products Containing Red Pepper Flakes
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 275 indexed products containing Red Pepper Flakes:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Agua”)
Top-decile company for Red Pepper Flakes: 275 listings averaging 97.1/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Agua; Beta-carotene Color; Organic Cacao Powder.
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 Flakes record
Use the 275-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Red Pepper Flakes to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Red Pepper Flakes with a peer such as “Agua” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Red Pepper Flakes — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Red Pepper Flakes? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Red Pepper Flakes, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,569 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Red Pepper Flakes? ▼
Red Pepper Flakes ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,569 of 247,206), appearing in 275 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Red Pepper Flakes so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Red Pepper Flakes appears in 275 products (#1,569 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Red Pepper 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.