Sterilized Ground Chili

Sterilized Ground Chili appears in 5 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

Sterilized Ground Chili appears in 5 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.

5
catalogued products
#24,708
usage rank of 247,206
1
named brands represented
44%
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: 1 of 5 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare De Picao, Apple Chamoy Cover, Chamoy; Chamoy candy pulp with chile for fruits & snacks; Chili powder with lemon to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 75–100 score range to Sterilized Ground Chili itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Baking-decorations supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

1 of 5 linked records have some flagged component

All 5 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 75–100 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.

Sterilized Ground Chili sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#24,708 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#24,708
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4,103 others that also appear in exactly 5 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
44%
Averaged label depth puts Sterilized Ground Chili in the upper half of the list (44% of list length, mean slot 4.2). 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 do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 5 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 Sterilized Ground Chili

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 5 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 708090100110 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Sterilized Ground Chili De Picao, Apple Chamoy Cover, ChamoyChamoy candy pulp with chile for fruits & snacksChili powder with lemonSweet n'sour chili powderTamarind candy
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Products Containing Sterilized Ground Chili

High-volume slice (5 of 5) for products naming Sterilized Ground Chili:

Download these 5 product rows (CSV) 5 rows PlainFoodSafe selection: CC BY 4.0. Underlying Open Food Facts data: ODbL 1.0.

Sterilized Ground Chili vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Sterilized Ground Chili sits among other busy catalog rows (5 products, mean score 95/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Sterilized Ground Chili record

Start from Sterilized Ground Chili's 5 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Sterilized Ground Chili to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Sterilized Ground Chili

Does Sterilized Ground Chili 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 Sterilized Ground Chili. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Sterilized Ground Chili?

Sterilized Ground Chili ranks in the top decile by product count (#24,708 of 247,206), appearing in 5 indexed products led by Baking-decorations. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Sterilized Ground Chili so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sterilized Ground Chili appears in 5 products (#24,708 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sterilized Ground Chili). 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.