Brown Sugar
Brown Sugar appears in 14,877 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
Brown Sugar appears in 14,877 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.
- 14,877
- catalogued products
- #69
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3,169
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 4901 of 14877 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0% Milkfat Fat Free Small Curd Cottage Cheese; 100% Lactose Free Ice Cream; 100% Natural Crunchy Granola Bars to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Brown Sugar itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
4901 of 14,877 linked records have some flagged component
All 14554 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
High-volume listing for Brown Sugar - usage rank #69
- Usage rank
- #69
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Averaged label depth puts Brown Sugar in the upper half of the list (41% of list length, mean slot 12.1). 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 else is usually in the same product as Brown Sugar
Across the 14,877 products on this site that list Brown Sugar, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.8x more often with Brown Sugar than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Brown Sugar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 2,396 | 16.1% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 1,097 | 7.4% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 1,044 | 7% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 515 | 3.5% | 5.4% |
| BHT | 414 | 2.8% | 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 Brown Sugar
Products Containing Brown Sugar
16 busy labels from the 14,877 indexed products that list Brown Sugar:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Tomato Paste”)
High-volume peers for Brown Sugar: 14,877 products, mean screening score 93.6/100. Nearest count peers include “Tomato Paste”, “Monocalcium Phosphate”, “Pasteurized Milk”. 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 Brown Sugar evidence
14,877 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Brown Sugar are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Brown Sugar 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. 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.
Brown Sugar — common follow-ups
Does Brown Sugar carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Brown Sugar. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Brown Sugar? ▼
Brown Sugar ranks in the top decile by product count (#69 of 247,206), appearing in 14,877 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Brown Sugar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Brown Sugar appears in 14,877 products (#69 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Brown Sugar). 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.