Serrano Pepper
Serrano Pepper appears in 151 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
Serrano Pepper appears in 151 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.
- 151
- catalogued products
- #2,353
- usage rank of 247,206
- 62
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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 Serrano Pepper - usage rank #2,353
- Usage rank
- #2,353
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11 others that also appear in exactly 151 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 151 products listing it (mean slot 11.5). Serrano Pepper 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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Serrano Pepper spans 62 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 99% Fat Free Low Sodium Cholesterol Free; Alarm Chili Portabella Mushrooms; Authentic Guacamole when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
62 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 72 of 143 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 Serrano Pepper
Products Containing Serrano Pepper
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 151 indexed products containing Serrano Pepper:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Anchovy Paste”)
High-volume peers for Serrano Pepper: 151 products, mean screening score 99.7/100. Nearest count peers include “Anchovy Paste”, “Barley Malt Flour”, “Cultured Pasteurized Milk And Cream”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Serrano Pepper evidence
Use the 151-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 Serrano Pepper to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Serrano Pepper with a peer such as “Anchovy Paste” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Serrano Pepper — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Serrano Pepper? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Serrano Pepper, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,353 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Serrano Pepper? ▼
Serrano Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,353 of 247,206), appearing in 151 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Serrano Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Serrano Pepper appears in 151 products (#2,353 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Serrano Pepper). 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.