Light Brown Sugar
Light Brown Sugar appears in 329 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
Light Brown Sugar appears in 329 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.
- 329
- catalogued products
- #1,385
- usage rank of 247,206
- 135
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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.
Light Brown Sugar sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,385 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,385
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 329 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 329 products listing it (mean slot 10.9). Light Brown 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.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Light Brown Sugar spans 135 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Whole Grain Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix; 7-eleven, fresh to go, snickerdoodle cookie; Almond Nut Topping when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
135 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 243 of 301 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Light Brown Sugar
Across the 329 products on this site that list Light Brown 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.9x more often with Light Brown Sugar than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Light Brown Sugar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 35 | 10.6% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 9 | 2.7% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 9 | 2.7% | 3.4% |
| Red 40 | 6 | 1.8% | 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 Light Brown Sugar
Products Containing Light Brown Sugar
16 busy labels from the 329 indexed products that list Light Brown Sugar:
High-volume peers for Light Brown Sugar beside “Organic Cayenne Peppers”
Top-decile company for Light Brown Sugar: 329 listings averaging 96.7/100. Nearest count peers include “Organic Cayenne Peppers”, “Celery Juice Powder”, “Flax”.
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 Light Brown Sugar page
329 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Light Brown Sugar are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Light Brown Sugar and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Light Brown Sugar with a peer such as “Organic Cayenne Peppers” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Light Brown Sugar? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Light Brown Sugar, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,385 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Light Brown Sugar? ▼
Light Brown Sugar ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,385 of 247,206), appearing in 329 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Light Brown Sugar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Light Brown Sugar appears in 329 products (#1,385 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Light Brown 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.