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.
| 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
Products Containing Invert Sugar
High-volume slice (16 of 5,551) for products naming Invert Sugar:
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.