Szechuan Peppercorns
Szechuan Peppercorns appears in 10 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
Szechuan Peppercorns appears in 10 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.
- 10
- catalogued products
- #15,180
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- named brands represented
- 79%
- 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 Szechuan Peppercorns - usage rank #15,180
- Usage rank
- #15,180
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,209 others that also appear in exactly 10 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 79%
- Averaged label depth puts Szechuan Peppercorns near the end of the captured list (79% of list length, mean slot 24.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 10% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Szechuan Peppercorns spans 6 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with Chili Crisp; Chili Crisp Inspired Chicken Stick; Chili Crisp Squiggly Noodles With Chili Crisp Drizzle & Rich Soy Sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
6 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 7 of 10 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 10 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 Szechuan Peppercorns
Products Containing Szechuan Peppercorns
10 busy labels from the 10 indexed products that list Szechuan Peppercorns:
High-volume peers for Szechuan Peppercorns
Top-decile company for Szechuan Peppercorns: 10 listings averaging 99.5/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Szechuan Peppercorns record
Start from Szechuan Peppercorns's 10 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Szechuan Peppercorns 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
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Szechuan Peppercorns
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Szechuan Peppercorns? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Szechuan Peppercorns, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#15,180 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Szechuan Peppercorns? ▼
Szechuan Peppercorns ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Szechuan Peppercorns so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Szechuan Peppercorns appears in 10 products (#15,180 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Szechuan Peppercorns). 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.