Scotch Bonnet Peppers
Scotch Bonnet Peppers appears in 21 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
Scotch Bonnet Peppers appears in 21 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.
- 21
- catalogued products
- #9,037
- usage rank of 247,206
- 12
- named brands represented
- 29%
- 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 Scotch Bonnet Peppers - usage rank #9,037
- Usage rank
- #9,037
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 333 others that also appear in exactly 21 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 29%
- Averaged label depth puts Scotch Bonnet Peppers in the upper half of the list (29% of list length, mean slot 5.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Scotch Bonnet Peppers spans 12 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Caribbean Curry, Scotch Bonnet Hot Pepper Sauce; Extreme Hot Sauce; Golden Krust, Hot Pepper Sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.5/100 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 14 of 19 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 Scotch Bonnet Peppers
Products Containing Scotch Bonnet Peppers
High-volume slice (16 of 21) for products naming Scotch Bonnet Peppers:
Scotch Bonnet Peppers vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Scotch Bonnet Peppers sits among other busy catalog rows (21 products, mean score 99.5/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Scotch Bonnet Peppers record
Start from Scotch Bonnet Peppers's 21 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Scotch Bonnet Peppers before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Scotch Bonnet Peppers? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Scotch Bonnet Peppers, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,037 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Scotch Bonnet Peppers? ▼
Scotch Bonnet Peppers ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,037 of 247,206), appearing in 21 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Scotch Bonnet Peppers so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Scotch Bonnet Peppers appears in 21 products (#9,037 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Scotch Bonnet 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.