Dark Brown Sugar
Dark Brown Sugar appears in 285 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
Dark Brown Sugar appears in 285 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.
- 285
- catalogued products
- #1,531
- usage rank of 247,206
- 124
- named brands represented
- 44%
- 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: 65 of 285 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 2% Low-Fat Greek Yogurt, Banana, Caramel & Rum; Adam Matthews, Yellow Caramel Cake; Ahold, indulge in ready to eat snickerdoodle cookie dough, vanilla and cinnamon to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 35–100 score range to Dark Brown Sugar itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
65 of 285 linked records have some flagged component
All 277 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.
High-volume listing for Dark Brown Sugar - usage rank #1,531
- Usage rank
- #1,531
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 5 others that also appear in exactly 285 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 44%
- Mean relative depth 44% across 285 parsed labels, slot 13.1 on average. Dark Brown Sugar tends to sit in the upper half of the 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 Dark Brown Sugar
Across the 285 products on this site that list Dark Brown 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 2.5x more often with Dark Brown Sugar than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dark Brown Sugar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 41 | 14.4% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 13 | 4.6% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 9 | 3.2% | 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 Dark Brown Sugar
Products Containing Dark Brown Sugar
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 285 indexed products containing Dark Brown Sugar:
High-volume peers for Dark Brown Sugar beside “Natural Blueberry Flavor”
Dark Brown Sugar sits among other busy catalog rows (285 products, mean score 97.8/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Natural Blueberry Flavor · Cooked Chickpeas · Flavor Enhancers. 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.
Next steps from the Dark Brown Sugar page
285 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Dark Brown Sugar are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Dark Brown Sugar to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Dark Brown Sugar next to “Cooked Chickpeas” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Dark Brown 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 Dark Brown Sugar. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dark Brown Sugar? ▼
Dark Brown Sugar ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,531 of 247,206), appearing in 285 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dark Brown Sugar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dark Brown Sugar appears in 285 products (#1,531 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dark Brown 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.