Confectioners Sugar
Confectioners Sugar appears in 155 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
Confectioners Sugar appears in 155 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.
- 155
- catalogued products
- #2,309
- usage rank of 247,206
- 60
- named brands represented
- 43%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
52.9% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Confectioners Sugar as the trigger. Open records such as A Modern Diabetes Management Co., Sweet Snack; Ashby's sterling, ice cream, amaretto cherry; Ashby's sterling, ice cream, eskimo kisses and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 76.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 43% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
52.9% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 146 of 152 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.
Confectioners Sugar: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,309 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,309
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 9 others that also appear in exactly 155 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 43%
- Mean relative depth 43% across 155 parsed labels, slot 13.8 on average. Confectioners Sugar tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 else is usually in the same product as Confectioners Sugar
Across the 155 products on this site that list Confectioners 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. Carrageenan shows up about 5.7x more often with Confectioners Sugar than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Confectioners Sugar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 40 | 25.8% | 4.5% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 34 | 21.9% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 34 | 21.9% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 30 | 19.4% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 28 | 18.1% | 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 Confectioners Sugar
Products Containing Confectioners Sugar
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 155 indexed products containing Confectioners Sugar:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “B5”)
Confectioners Sugar sits among other busy catalog rows (155 products, mean score 76.8/100). Nearest count peers include “B5”, “Bovine”, “Chipotle”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Confectioners Sugar evidence
155 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Confectioners Sugar are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Confectioners Sugar before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Confectioners Sugar with a peer such as “B5” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Confectioners Sugar — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Confectioners Sugar sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
52.9% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Confectioners Sugar is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Confectioners Sugar? ▼
Confectioners Sugar ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,309 of 247,206), appearing in 155 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Confectioners Sugar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Confectioners Sugar appears in 155 products (#2,309 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Confectioners 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.