Cane Sugar

Cane Sugar appears in 25,099 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

Cane Sugar appears in 25,099 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.

25,099
catalogued products
#30
usage rank of 293,342
5,666
named brands represented
33%
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.

Where Cane Sugar sits among catalogued ingredients

Usage rank
#30
of 293,342 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
33%
Of the way down the list, averaged across the 25,481 products listing it (mean slot 6.4). Ingredient lists run in descending order by weight, so Cane Sugar usually falls in the upper half of the list.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 293,342 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

How common is Cane Sugar vs other flagged additives?

Number of indexed products containing each of the most common flagged additives - Cane Sugar highlighted.

Cane Sugar25099Caramel Coloring22612Red 4021595Yellow 518987Carrageenan17853Blue 116643Yellow 613560Sucralose10490
Indexed products containing each flagged additive. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists × FDA SAFFA × CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 9.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cane Sugar spans 5666 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 1% low fat milk; 1% low fat milk; 1% organic lowfat milk when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 19680 of 24307 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Cane Sugar safe to eat?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cane Sugar, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.

What products contain Cane Sugar?

Cane Sugar is found in 25,099 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.

What does Cane Sugar do in food?

The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Cane Sugar. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.

Citation notes Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.

Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.