Caramel Sauce
Caramel Sauce appears in 83 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
Caramel Sauce appears in 83 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.
- 83
- catalogued products
- #3,577
- usage rank of 247,206
- 36
- named brands represented
- 36%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
53% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Caramel Sauce as the trigger. Open records such as Apple Brioche Bread Pudding; Artisan Gelato & Sorbetto; Artisan Gelato & Sorbetto and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 94.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 36% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
53% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 80 of 83 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Caramel Sauce: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,577 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,577
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 30 others that also appear in exactly 83 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 36%
- Averaged label depth puts Caramel Sauce in the upper half of the list (36% of list length, mean slot 13.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Caramel Sauce
Across the 83 products on this site that list Caramel Sauce, 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 6.1x more often with Caramel Sauce than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Caramel Sauce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 29 | 34.9% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 20 | 24.1% | 4.5% |
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 Caramel Sauce
Products Containing Caramel Sauce
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 83 indexed products containing Caramel Sauce:
High-volume peers for Caramel Sauce beside “Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3”
High-volume peers for Caramel Sauce: 83 products, mean screening score 94.6/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3; Blue 1 & 2; Brominated Soybean Oil. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Caramel Sauce evidence
Use the 83-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Caramel Sauce to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Caramel Sauce next to “Blue 1 & 2” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Caramel Sauce sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
53% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Caramel Sauce is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Caramel Sauce? ▼
Caramel Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,577 of 247,206), appearing in 83 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Caramel Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Caramel Sauce appears in 83 products (#3,577 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Caramel Sauce). 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.