Serrano Peppers
Serrano Peppers appears in 264 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 Peppers appears in 264 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.
- 264
- catalogued products
- #1,623
- usage rank of 247,206
- 118
- named brands represented
- 48%
- 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.
Serrano Peppers sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,623 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,623
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 264 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 48%
- Averaged label depth puts Serrano Peppers in the upper half of the list (48% of list length, mean slot 10.7). 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 9.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Serrano Peppers spans 118 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Abuela's Mild Hot Sauce; Addiction Sauces, Peri Peri Sauce, All Natural Hot Sauce; Afterburner Salsa when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
118 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 118 of 237 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 Serrano Peppers
Across the 264 products on this site that list Serrano 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Serrano Peppers products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 13 | 4.9% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 7 | 2.7% | 2.4% |
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 Serrano Peppers
Products Containing Serrano Peppers
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 264 indexed products containing Serrano Peppers:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Guarana Extract”)
Serrano Peppers sits among other busy catalog rows (264 products, mean score 98.9/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Guarana Extract; Mustard Bran; 0.1% Sodium Benzoate. 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 Serrano Peppers record
Use the 264-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 Peppers to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
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 Serrano Peppers? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Serrano Peppers, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,623 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Serrano Peppers? ▼
Serrano Peppers ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,623 of 247,206), appearing in 264 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Serrano Peppers so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Serrano Peppers appears in 264 products (#1,623 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Serrano 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.