Or Less Of Molasses

Or Less Of Molasses appears in 115 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

Or Less Of Molasses appears in 115 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.

115
catalogued products
#2,845
usage rank of 247,206
25
named brands represented
43%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 24 of 115 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Celery & Peanut Butter Cup; Chocolates; Classic Handcrafted Chocolates Assortment to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 5–100 score range to Or Less Of Molasses itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

24 of 115 linked records have some flagged component

All 114 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 5–100 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.

Or Less Of Molasses: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,845 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#2,845
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 115 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
43%
Averaged label depth puts Or Less Of Molasses in the upper half of the list (43% of list length, mean slot 12.0). 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Or Less Of Molasses

Across the 115 products on this site that list Or Less Of Molasses, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.8x more often with Or Less Of Molasses than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +10ppCaramel Coloring+10ppYellow 5: +0.4ppYellow 5+0.4ppRed 40: -1.1ppRed 40-1.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Or Less Of Molasses products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Caramel Coloring
10pp
Yellow 5
0.4pp
Red 40
-1.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Or Less Of Molasses products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 18 15.7% 5.7%
Yellow 5 6 5.2% 4.8%
Red 40 5 4.3% 5.4%

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 Or Less Of Molasses

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Or Less Of Molasses
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural And Artificial Flavorings”)

Or Less Of Molasses sits among other busy catalog rows (115 products, mean score 95.9/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Natural And Artificial Flavorings; Bamboo Fiber; Beef Hearts. 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

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

What to do with this Or Less Of Molasses record

Start from Or Less Of Molasses's 115 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Or Less Of Molasses and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
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This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Or Less Of Molasses — common follow-ups

Does Or Less Of Molasses carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Or Less Of Molasses. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Or Less Of Molasses?

Or Less Of Molasses ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,845 of 247,206), appearing in 115 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Or Less Of Molasses so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Or Less Of Molasses appears in 115 products (#2,845 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Or Less Of Molasses). 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.