Invert Sugar

Invert Sugar carries a source-backed screening score of 4/5 and appears in 5,551 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Cut Back.”

Source-backed answer

Invert Sugar appears in 5,551 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Cut Back.” Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.

5,551
catalogued products
#197
usage rank of 247,206
940
named brands represented
51%
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.

Invert Sugar sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#197 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#197
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
51%
Averaged label depth puts Invert Sugar in the lower half of the list (51% of list length, mean slot 17.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2259 of 5551 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Whole Grain Wheat Fig Fruit Chewy Cookies; 100% Whole Wheat Bagels; 3 layer cake to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Invert Sugar 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.

2259 of 5,551 linked records have some flagged component

All 5550 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 Invert Sugar

Across the 5,551 products on this site that list Invert 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. Red 40 shows up about 2.9x more often with Invert Sugar than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +10.5ppRed 40+10.5ppCaramel Coloring: +7ppCaramel Coloring+7ppPolysorbate 60: +9.9ppPolysorbate 60+9.9ppBlue 1: +6.3ppBlue 1+6.3ppCarrageenan: +6ppCarrageenan+6pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Invert Sugar products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Red 40
10.5pp
Caramel Coloring
7pp
Polysorbate 60
9.9pp
Blue 1
6.3pp
Carrageenan
6pp
Additive Shared products Share of Invert Sugar products Share of all products
Red 40 881 15.9% 5.4%
Caramel Coloring 703 12.7% 5.7%
Polysorbate 60 630 11.3% 1.4%
Blue 1 584 10.5% 4.2%
Carrageenan 583 10.5% 4.5%

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

FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRITIVE 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 Invert Sugar

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 050100150 0246 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Invert Sugar
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Invert Sugar beside “Rice”

Invert Sugar sits among other busy catalog rows (5,551 products, mean score 84.7/100). Nearest count peers include “Rice”, “Dried Cranberries”, “Sorbic Acid”. 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

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the Invert Sugar evidence

Start from Invert Sugar's 5,551 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Invert Sugar before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Place Invert Sugar next to “Dried Cranberries” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Invert Sugar — common follow-ups

Does Invert Sugar carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Invert Sugar itself carries a CSPI "Cut Back" rating and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" 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 Invert Sugar?

Invert Sugar ranks in the top decile by product count (#197 of 247,206), appearing in 5,551 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

What does Invert Sugar do in food?

Invert Sugar is recorded as a flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, nutritive sweetener in source technical-effect fields.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Invert 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.