Fancy Molasses
Fancy Molasses appears in 85 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
Fancy Molasses appears in 85 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.
- 85
- catalogued products
- #3,525
- usage rank of 247,206
- 38
- named brands represented
- 55%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 28 of 85 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare A couple of squares inc, gingerbread cookie; A couple of squares, gingerbread cookie; A couple of squares, gingerbread cookie to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Fancy Molasses itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
28 of 85 linked records have some flagged component
All 85 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
Fancy Molasses sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,525 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,525
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 27 others that also appear in exactly 85 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 55%
- Mean relative depth 55% across 85 parsed labels, slot 16.5 on average. Fancy Molasses tends to sit in the lower 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 Fancy Molasses
Across the 85 products on this site that list Fancy Molasses, 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 Fancy Molasses than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Fancy Molasses products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 12 | 14.1% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 7 | 8.2% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 7 | 8.2% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 6 | 7.1% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 6 | 7.1% | 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 Fancy Molasses
Products Containing Fancy Molasses
High-volume slice (16 of 85) for products naming Fancy Molasses:
Fancy Molasses vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Fancy Molasses sits among other busy catalog rows (85 products, mean score 90.6/100). Nearest count peers include “Aged Cayenne Pepper”, “Carotenes”, “Organic Carrot Concentrate”. 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.
Using the Fancy Molasses evidence
85 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Fancy Molasses are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Fancy Molasses and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Fancy Molasses 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 Fancy Molasses. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Fancy Molasses? ▼
Fancy Molasses ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,525 of 247,206), appearing in 85 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Fancy Molasses so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Fancy Molasses appears in 85 products (#3,525 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fancy Molasses). 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.