Sweet Chili Sauce
Sweet Chili Sauce appears in 44 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
Sweet Chili Sauce appears in 44 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.
- 44
- catalogued products
- #5,420
- usage rank of 247,206
- 14
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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.
Sweet Chili Sauce: top-decile catalog footprint (#5,420 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,420
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 86 others that also appear in exactly 44 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 49%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 44 products listing it (mean slot 22.7). Sweet Chili Sauce usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sweet Chili Sauce spans 14 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with Albacore tuna in thai coconut lemongrass; Cauliflower Wings Sweet Chili; Chef Jenn, Firecracker Shrimp Dip when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
14 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 44 of 44 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 Sweet Chili Sauce
Across the 44 products on this site that list Sweet Chili Sauce, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2x more often with Sweet Chili Sauce than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sweet Chili Sauce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 11.4% | 5.7% |
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 Sweet Chili Sauce
Products Containing Sweet Chili Sauce
High-volume slice (16 of 44) for products naming Sweet Chili Sauce:
High-volume peers for Sweet Chili Sauce
Top-decile company for Sweet Chili Sauce: 44 listings averaging 99/100.
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 Sweet Chili Sauce record
Use the 44-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 Sweet Chili Sauce to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sweet Chili Sauce — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sweet Chili Sauce? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sweet Chili Sauce, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,420 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sweet Chili Sauce? ▼
Sweet Chili Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,420 of 247,206), appearing in 44 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sweet Chili Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sweet Chili Sauce appears in 44 products (#5,420 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sweet Chili Sauce). 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.