Caramelized Sugar
Caramelized Sugar appears in 333 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
Caramelized Sugar appears in 333 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.
- 333
- catalogued products
- #1,374
- usage rank of 247,206
- 139
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 109 of 333 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Lactose Free Ice Cream; 36 french macarons; 8 Stroopwafels to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 20–100 score range to Caramelized Sugar itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
109 of 333 linked records have some flagged component
All 331 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 20–100 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.
Caramelized Sugar sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,374 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,374
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 333 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Averaged label depth puts Caramelized Sugar in the lower half of the list (65% of list length, mean slot 17.4). 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 Caramelized Sugar
Across the 333 products on this site that list Caramelized 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 2.9x more often with Caramelized Sugar than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Caramelized Sugar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 55 | 16.5% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 46 | 13.8% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 16 | 4.8% | 2.4% |
| TBHQ | 15 | 4.5% | 0.5% |
| Blue 1 | 8 | 2.4% | 4.2% |
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 Caramelized Sugar
Products Containing Caramelized Sugar
High-volume slice (16 of 333) for products naming Caramelized Sugar:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Coconut Milk Powder”)
Top-decile company for Caramelized Sugar: 333 listings averaging 94/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Coconut Milk Powder · Palm Oil Shortening · Tallow.
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 Caramelized Sugar evidence
Start from Caramelized Sugar's 333 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Caramelized Sugar before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Caramelized Sugar with a peer such as “Coconut Milk Powder” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Caramelized Sugar
Does Caramelized 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 Caramelized Sugar. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Caramelized Sugar? ▼
Caramelized Sugar ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,374 of 247,206), appearing in 333 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Caramelized Sugar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Caramelized Sugar appears in 333 products (#1,374 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Caramelized 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.