Liquid Sugar
Liquid Sugar appears in 978 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
Liquid Sugar appears in 978 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.
- 978
- catalogued products
- #671
- usage rank of 247,206
- 165
- named brands represented
- 24%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
60.6% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Liquid Sugar as the trigger. Open records such as 1% Lowfat Chocolate Milk; 1% Lowfat Chocolate Milk; 1% Lowfat Chocolate Milk and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 91.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 24% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
60.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 948 of 975 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 Liquid Sugar - usage rank #671
- Usage rank
- #671
- 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
- 24%
- Averaged label depth puts Liquid Sugar near the top of the captured list (24% of list length, mean slot 6.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Liquid Sugar
Across the 978 products on this site that list Liquid 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. Carrageenan shows up about 10.9x more often with Liquid Sugar than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Liquid Sugar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 479 | 49% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 91 | 9.3% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 55 | 5.6% | 5.4% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 44 | 4.5% | 1.3% |
| Yellow 5 | 43 | 4.4% | 4.8% |
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 Liquid Sugar
Products Containing Liquid Sugar
High-volume slice (16 of 978) for products naming Liquid Sugar:
High-volume peers for Liquid Sugar beside “Glycerol”
High-volume peers for Liquid Sugar: 978 products, mean screening score 91.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Glycerol”, “Textured Vegetable Protein”, “Agave Syrup”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Liquid Sugar evidence
Use the 978-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Liquid Sugar to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Liquid Sugar with a peer such as “Glycerol” 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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Liquid Sugar sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
60.6% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Liquid Sugar is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Liquid Sugar? ▼
Liquid Sugar ranks in the top decile by product count (#671 of 247,206), appearing in 978 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Liquid Sugar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Liquid Sugar appears in 978 products (#671 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Liquid 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.