Smoked Black Pepper
Smoked Black Pepper appears in 9 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
Smoked Black Pepper appears in 9 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.
- 9
- catalogued products
- #16,390
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3
- named brands represented
- 71%
- 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 Smoked Black Pepper - usage rank #16,390
- Usage rank
- #16,390
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,423 others that also appear in exactly 9 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 9 products listing it (mean slot 24.4). Smoked Black 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.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Smoked Black Pepper spans 3 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with PepperHouse Smoked Hummus; Smoked black pepper caesar dressing, smoked black pepper caesar; Smoky Chicken & Stewed Black Beans when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
3 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 7 of 9 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 9 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 Smoked Black Pepper
Products Containing Smoked Black Pepper
9 busy labels from the 9 indexed products that list Smoked Black Pepper:
High-volume peers for Smoked Black Pepper
Top-decile company for Smoked Black Pepper: 9 listings averaging 99.4/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Smoked Black Pepper evidence
Use the 9-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 Smoked Black Pepper to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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.
Smoked Black Pepper — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Smoked Black Pepper? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Smoked Black Pepper, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#16,390 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Smoked Black Pepper? ▼
Smoked Black Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#16,390 of 247,206), appearing in 9 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Smoked Black Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Smoked Black Pepper appears in 9 products (#16,390 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Smoked Black 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.