Red Pepper Powder
Red Pepper Powder appears in 209 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 Powder appears in 209 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.
- 209
- catalogued products
- #1,887
- usage rank of 247,206
- 95
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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 Powder: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,887 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,887
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 210 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Mean relative depth 45% across 210 parsed labels, slot 14.9 on average. Red Pepper Powder tends to sit in the upper 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 11.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Red Pepper Powder spans 95 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Ajumma Republic Korean Bbq Sauce; Assi, hot pepper paste for bibimbap; Assi, hot pepper paste for sashimi when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
95 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 166 of 197 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 Powder
Across the 209 products on this site that list Red Pepper Powder, 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 Pepper Powder products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 13 | 6.2% | 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 Pepper Powder
Products Containing Red Pepper Powder
High-volume slice (16 of 209) for products naming Red Pepper Powder:
High-volume peers for Red Pepper Powder beside “Cultured Celery Juice Powder”
Red Pepper Powder sits among other busy catalog rows (209 products, mean score 98.4/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Cultured Celery Juice Powder; Cultured Milk And Cream; Gelatine. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Red Pepper Powder evidence
209 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Red Pepper Powder are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Red Pepper Powder to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Red Pepper Powder next to “Cultured Milk And Cream” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Red Pepper Powder
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Red Pepper Powder? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Red Pepper Powder, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,887 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Red Pepper Powder? ▼
Red Pepper Powder ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,887 of 247,206), appearing in 209 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Red Pepper Powder so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Red Pepper Powder appears in 209 products (#1,887 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Red Pepper Powder). 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.