Red Peppers
Red Peppers appears in 1,557 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 Peppers appears in 1,557 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.
- 1,557
- catalogued products
- #499
- usage rank of 247,206
- 465
- named brands represented
- 52%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 360 of 1557 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 3 Beans Salad; 3 pepper & onion blend; 7 select, go! yum flavored popcorn, hot & peppery sriracha to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Red Peppers itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
360 of 1,557 linked records have some flagged component
All 1513 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 Peppers sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#499 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #499
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 1,559 products, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 52%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,559 products listing it (mean slot 15.5). Red Peppers 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 Peppers
Across the 1,557 products on this site that list Red Peppers, 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 1.8x more often with Red Peppers than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Red Peppers products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 158 | 10.1% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 80 | 5.1% | 2.4% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 78 | 5% | 1.3% |
| Carrageenan | 73 | 4.7% | 4.5% |
| BHA | 39 | 2.5% | 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 Peppers
Products Containing Red Peppers
High-volume slice (16 of 1,557) for products naming Red Peppers:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Mono-and Diglycerides”)
Red Peppers sits among other busy catalog rows (1,557 products, mean score 96/100). Nearest count peers include “Mono-and Diglycerides”, “White Wine”, “Jalapeno Pepper”. 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 Peppers record
Start from Red Peppers's 1,557 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Red Peppers and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Red Peppers 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 Peppers. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Red Peppers? ▼
Red Peppers ranks in the top decile by product count (#499 of 247,206), appearing in 1,557 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Red Peppers so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Red Peppers appears in 1,557 products (#499 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Red Peppers). 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.