Yellow Pepper
Yellow Pepper appears in 66 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
Yellow Pepper appears in 66 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.
- 66
- catalogued products
- #4,131
- usage rank of 247,206
- 34
- named brands represented
- 48%
- 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.
Yellow Pepper: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,131 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,131
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 47 others that also appear in exactly 66 products, listed in more products than 98.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 48%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 66 products listing it (mean slot 18.5). Yellow Pepper 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Yellow Pepper spans 34 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with All Natural Hommus Everything; All Natural Mixed Grilled Vegetables Bruschetta; BBQ Beef Yakisoba when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 94.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
34 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 32 of 58 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 Yellow Pepper
Across the 66 products on this site that list Yellow 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 5x more often with Yellow Pepper than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Yellow Pepper products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 8 | 12.1% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 7 | 10.6% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 7 | 10.6% | 1.1% |
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 Yellow Pepper
Products Containing Yellow Pepper
16 busy labels from the 66 indexed products that list Yellow Pepper:
Yellow Pepper vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Yellow Pepper: 66 products, mean screening score 94.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Almond Protein; Alpha Amylase; Arôme. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Yellow Pepper page
Start from Yellow Pepper's 66 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Yellow Pepper before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Yellow Pepper? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Yellow Pepper, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,131 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Yellow Pepper? ▼
Yellow Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,131 of 247,206), appearing in 66 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Yellow Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Yellow Pepper appears in 66 products (#4,131 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Yellow 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.