High Frustose Corn Syrup
High Frustose Corn Syrup appears in 3 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 Frustose Corn Syrup appears in 3 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.
- 3
- catalogued products
- #35,140
- usage rank of 248,027
- 1
- named brands represented
- 27%
- 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: 1 of 3 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Peeps Pepsi; Baking maraschino cherries; Steak seasoning sauce to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 95–100 score range to High Frustose Corn Syrup itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Baking-decorations supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
All 3 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 95–100 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.
Where High Frustose Corn Syrup sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #35,140
- of 248,027 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11,108 others that also appear in exactly 3 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 27%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 3 products listing it (mean slot 3.3). High Frustose Corn Syrup 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. 248,027 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Products Containing High Frustose Corn Syrup
A sample of 3 of the 3 indexed products containing High Frustose Corn Syrup, with each product's overall safety score.
Nationwide ingredients with similar catalog profiles
Peer axes for High Frustose Corn Syrup: product count (3) · mean score 98.3/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is High Frustose Corn Syrup safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to High Frustose Corn Syrup, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain High Frustose Corn Syrup? ▼
High Frustose Corn Syrup is found in 3 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does High Frustose Corn Syrup do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for High Frustose Corn Syrup. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (High Frustose Corn Syrup); safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe. Methodology · State regulations.
Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.