Caramel Sugar Syrup
Caramel Sugar Syrup appears in 46 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 Sugar Syrup appears in 46 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.
- 46
- catalogued products
- #5,260
- usage rank of 247,206
- 18
- named brands represented
- 65%
- 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.
Caramel Sugar Syrup sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,260 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,260
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 72 others that also appear in exactly 46 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Averaged label depth puts Caramel Sugar Syrup in the lower half of the list (65% of list length, mean slot 15.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 6.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Caramel Sugar Syrup spans 18 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 18 fruit chews; Animal cookies; Assorted Pralines when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
18 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 43 of 45 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.
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 Sugar Syrup
Products Containing Caramel Sugar Syrup
High-volume slice (16 of 46) for products naming Caramel Sugar Syrup:
High-volume peers for Caramel Sugar Syrup
High-volume peers for Caramel Sugar Syrup: 46 products, mean screening score 99.2/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Caramel Sugar Syrup page
Use the 46-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Caramel Sugar Syrup and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- 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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Caramel Sugar Syrup
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Caramel Sugar Syrup? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Caramel Sugar Syrup, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,260 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Caramel Sugar Syrup? ▼
Caramel Sugar Syrup ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,260 of 247,206), appearing in 46 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Caramel Sugar Syrup so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Caramel Sugar Syrup appears in 46 products (#5,260 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Caramel Sugar Syrup). 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.