Cultured Sugar
Cultured Sugar appears in 223 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 Sugar appears in 223 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.
- 223
- catalogued products
- #1,813
- usage rank of 247,206
- 63
- 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: 49 of 223 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 5 Cheese Pizza, 5 Cheese; Apple Crisp Apple Dessert Cup With Oats & Honey Granola, Apple Crisp; ARTICHOKE & JALAPEÑO DIP & SPREAD to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 30–100 score range to Cultured Sugar itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
49 of 223 linked records have some flagged component
All 220 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 30–100 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.
Cultured Sugar sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,813 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,813
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 5 others that also appear in exactly 223 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Averaged label depth puts Cultured Sugar in the lower half of the list (65% of list length, mean slot 20.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Sugar
Across the 223 products on this site that list Cultured 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 1.8x more often with Cultured Sugar than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cultured Sugar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 23 | 10.3% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 19 | 8.5% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 6 | 2.7% | 2.4% |
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 Sugar
Products Containing Cultured Sugar
High-volume slice (16 of 223) for products naming Cultured Sugar:
High-volume peers for Cultured Sugar beside “Isolated Soy Protein Product”
Cultured Sugar sits among other busy catalog rows (223 products, mean score 97.3/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Isolated Soy Protein Product; L-valine; Palm And Soybean Oil. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Cultured Sugar page
Start from Cultured Sugar's 223 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Cultured Sugar before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Cultured Sugar next to “L-valine” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Cultured 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 Cultured Sugar. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cultured Sugar? ▼
Cultured Sugar ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,813 of 247,206), appearing in 223 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cultured Sugar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cultured Sugar appears in 223 products (#1,813 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cultured 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.