Yellow Peppers
Yellow Peppers appears in 95 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 Peppers appears in 95 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.
- 95
- catalogued products
- #3,238
- usage rank of 247,206
- 38
- named brands represented
- 57%
- 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 Peppers: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,238 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,238
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 25 others that also appear in exactly 95 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 57%
- Mean relative depth 57% across 95 parsed labels, slot 15.8 on average. Yellow Peppers tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Yellow Peppers spans 38 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with 3 pepper & onion blend; Artichoke Bruschetta; Artisan soup, black bean when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
38 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 54 of 91 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 Peppers
Across the 95 products on this site that list Yellow Peppers, 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 3.1x more often with Yellow Peppers than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Yellow Peppers products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 7 | 7.4% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 7 | 7.4% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 6 | 6.3% | 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 Peppers
Products Containing Yellow Peppers
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 95 indexed products containing Yellow Peppers:
Yellow Peppers vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Yellow Peppers: 95 products, mean screening score 96.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Apples And Calcium Ascorbate; Barbecue Sauce; Black Bean. 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.
Using the Yellow Peppers evidence
Start from Yellow Peppers's 95 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Yellow Peppers to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Yellow Peppers
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Yellow Peppers? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Yellow Peppers, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,238 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Yellow Peppers? ▼
Yellow Peppers ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,238 of 247,206), appearing in 95 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Yellow Peppers so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Yellow Peppers appears in 95 products (#3,238 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Yellow Peppers). 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.