High Fructose Corn Sweetener
High Fructose Corn Sweetener appears in 39 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
High Fructose Corn Sweetener appears in 39 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.
- 39
- catalogued products
- #5,893
- usage rank of 247,206
- 9
- named brands represented
- 13%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
61.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify High Fructose Corn Sweetener as the trigger. Open records such as Bread & Butter Pickles; Freddies Root Beer; frostop root beer and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 94.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 13% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
61.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 38 of 39 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
High Fructose Corn Sweetener sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,893 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,893
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 113 others that also appear in exactly 39 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 13%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 39 products listing it (mean slot 2.2). High Fructose Corn Sweetener usually falls near the top of the captured 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.
What else is usually in the same product as High Fructose Corn Sweetener
Across the 39 products on this site that list High Fructose Corn Sweetener, 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. Polysorbate 80 shows up about 29.6x more often with High Fructose Corn Sweetener than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of High Fructose Corn Sweetener products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 80 | 15 | 38.5% | 1.3% |
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 15.4% | 5.7% |
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 High Fructose Corn Sweetener
Products Containing High Fructose Corn Sweetener
16 busy labels from the 39 indexed products that list High Fructose Corn Sweetener:
High Fructose Corn Sweetener vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for High Fructose Corn Sweetener: 39 products, mean screening score 94.7/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the High Fructose Corn Sweetener page
Use the 39-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for High Fructose Corn Sweetener 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
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about High Fructose Corn Sweetener
How should I read safety signals when High Fructose Corn Sweetener sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
61.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming High Fructose Corn Sweetener is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with High Fructose Corn Sweetener? ▼
High Fructose Corn Sweetener ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,893 of 247,206), appearing in 39 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is High Fructose Corn Sweetener so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet High Fructose Corn Sweetener appears in 39 products (#5,893 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (High Fructose Corn Sweetener). 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.