Fructose
Fructose carries a source-backed screening score of 4/5 and appears in 5,437 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Cut Back.”
Source-backed answer
Fructose appears in 5,437 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Cut Back.” No FDA SAFFA status is attached. Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 5,437
- catalogued products
- #198
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,017
- named brands represented
- 40%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Fructose - usage rank #198
- Usage rank
- #198
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 40%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 5,437 products listing it (mean slot 13.0). Fructose 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.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2539 of 5437 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1,000mg Vitamin C Pink Lemonade; 100 Calorie Greek Nonfat Yogurt; 100 calorie greek nonfat yogurt, tart cherry, tart cherry to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Fructose 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.
2539 of 5,437 linked records have some flagged component
All 5428 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Fructose
Across the 5,437 products on this site that list Fructose, 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 2.4x more often with Fructose than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Fructose products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 756 | 13.9% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 672 | 12.4% | 4.5% |
| Sucralose | 574 | 10.6% | 2.7% |
| Red 40 | 563 | 10.4% | 5.4% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 394 | 7.2% | 1.8% |
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.
Function
Sweetener
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 Fructose
Products Containing Fructose
High-volume slice (16 of 5,437) for products naming Fructose:
Fructose vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Fructose: 5,437 listings averaging 86.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Disodium Phosphate · Sodium Diacetate · Polysorbate 80.
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 Fructose evidence
5,437 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Fructose are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Fructose before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- 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 Fructose carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Fructose itself carries a CSPI "Cut Back" rating where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Fructose? ▼
Fructose ranks in the top decile by product count (#198 of 247,206), appearing in 5,437 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Fructose do in food? ▼
Fructose is recorded as a sweetener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fructose). 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.