Icing Sugar
Icing Sugar appears in 731 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
Icing Sugar appears in 731 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.
- 731
- catalogued products
- #815
- usage rank of 247,206
- 131
- named brands represented
- 33%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
68.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Icing Sugar as the trigger. Open records such as 12 Macarons Assorted; 4 Yum Yums; A couple of squares inc, gingerbread cookie and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 60.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 33% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
68.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 720 of 731 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-volume listing for Icing Sugar - usage rank #815
- Usage rank
- #815
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 33%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 731 products listing it (mean slot 14.3). Icing Sugar 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Icing Sugar
Across the 731 products on this site that list Icing 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 42.3x more often with Icing Sugar than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Icing Sugar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 433 | 59.2% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 244 | 33.4% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 242 | 33.1% | 4.2% |
| Red 40 | 235 | 32.1% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 223 | 30.5% | 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 Icing Sugar
Products Containing Icing Sugar
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 731 indexed products containing Icing Sugar:
Icing Sugar vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Icing Sugar: 731 products, mean screening score 60.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Green Onions”, “Fruit Juice”, “Spirulina Extract”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Icing Sugar page
731 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Icing Sugar are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Icing Sugar and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Icing Sugar with a peer such as “Green Onions” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Icing Sugar
How should I read safety signals when Icing Sugar sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
68.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Icing Sugar is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Icing Sugar? ▼
Icing Sugar ranks in the top decile by product count (#815 of 247,206), appearing in 731 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Icing Sugar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Icing Sugar appears in 731 products (#815 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Icing 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.