Cultured Corn Sugar

Cultured Corn Sugar appears in 35 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

Cultured Corn Sugar appears in 35 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.

35
catalogued products
#6,340
usage rank of 247,206
12
named brands represented
35%
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

51.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Cultured Corn Sugar as the trigger. Open records such as Breaded chicken breasts; Carving Board Slow Cooked Ham; Cilantro Lime Seasoned Beef Flank Strips and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 92.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 35% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

51.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 35 of 35 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.

High-volume listing for Cultured Corn Sugar - usage rank #6,340

Usage rank
#6,340
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 111 others that also appear in exactly 35 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
35%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 35 products listing it (mean slot 8.3). Cultured Corn Sugar usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 Cultured Corn Sugar

Across the 35 products on this site that list Cultured Corn 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 15.5x more often with Cultured Corn Sugar than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Cultured Corn Sugar products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 13 37.1% 2.4%
Caramel Coloring 8 22.9% 5.7%

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 Cultured Corn Sugar

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 7580859095100105 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cultured Corn Sugar
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Cultured Corn Sugar vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Cultured Corn Sugar: 35 listings averaging 92.4/100.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

What to do with this Cultured Corn Sugar record

35 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Cultured Corn Sugar are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Cultured Corn Sugar to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the 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 Cultured Corn Sugar sits in heavily flagged products?

51.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Cultured Corn Sugar is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Cultured Corn Sugar?

Cultured Corn Sugar ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,340 of 247,206), appearing in 35 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Cultured Corn Sugar so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cultured Corn Sugar appears in 35 products (#6,340 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cultured Corn 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.