D-glucose
D-glucose appears in 88 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
D-glucose appears in 88 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.
- 88
- catalogued products
- #3,428
- usage rank of 247,206
- 12
- named brands represented
- 16%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 31 of 88 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare CVS Health Glucose Tablets; Fast acting glucose gel, tropical blast; Fruit Punch Flavored Glucose Gel, Fruit Punch to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 35–100 score range to D-glucose itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
31 of 88 linked records have some flagged component
All 88 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 35–100 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.
D-glucose: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,428 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,428
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 28 others that also appear in exactly 88 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 16%
- Mean relative depth 16% across 88 parsed labels, slot 2.8 on average. D-glucose tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 D-glucose
Across the 88 products on this site that list D-glucose, 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. Red 40 shows up about 4.8x more often with D-glucose than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of D-glucose products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 23 | 26.1% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 8 | 9.1% | 4.2% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 5 | 5.7% | 1.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 5 | 5.7% | 3.4% |
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 D-glucose
Products Containing D-glucose
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 88 indexed products containing D-glucose:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Ashwagandha”)
D-glucose sits among other busy catalog rows (88 products, mean score 88.2/100). Nearest count peers include “Ashwagandha”, “Bay”, “Butternut Squash Puree”. 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 D-glucose page
Use the 88-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing D-glucose before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare D-glucose with a peer such as “Ashwagandha” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
D-glucose — common follow-ups
Does D-glucose 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 D-glucose. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with D-glucose? ▼
D-glucose ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,428 of 247,206), appearing in 88 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is D-glucose so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet D-glucose appears in 88 products (#3,428 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (D-glucose). 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.