White Pepper
White Pepper appears in 2,082 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
White Pepper appears in 2,082 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.
- 2,082
- catalogued products
- #397
- usage rank of 247,206
- 672
- named brands represented
- 78%
- 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.
White Pepper: top-decile catalog footprint (#397 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #397
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 78%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 2,082 products listing it (mean slot 20.9). White Pepper usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 19.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: White Pepper spans 672 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with 10 bean soup mix; 26/30 Brd Coconut Shrimp; 3 cheese spinach & Artichoke pasta when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
672 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1474 of 1973 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 White Pepper
Across the 2,082 products on this site that list White Pepper, 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 White Pepper products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 172 | 8.3% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 125 | 6% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 64 | 3.1% | 2.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 32 | 1.5% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 21 | 1% | 1.3% |
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 White Pepper
Products Containing White Pepper
16 busy labels from the 2,082 indexed products that list White Pepper:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Vegetable Color”)
Top-decile company for White Pepper: 2,082 listings averaging 97.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Vegetable Color; Glycerine; Spice Extractives.
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 White Pepper record
Start from White Pepper's 2,082 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for White Pepper and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare White Pepper with a peer such as “Vegetable Color” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 White Pepper? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to White Pepper, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#397 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with White Pepper? ▼
White Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#397 of 247,206), appearing in 2,082 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is White Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet White Pepper appears in 2,082 products (#397 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (White 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.