Molasses
Molasses appears in 14,321 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
Molasses appears in 14,321 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.
- 14,321
- catalogued products
- #75
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2,715
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 5419 of 14321 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 Hott Sauce; 100% light whole wheat; 100% Natural Crunchy Granola Bars to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Molasses 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.
5419 of 14,321 linked records have some flagged component
All 14151 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.
Molasses: top-decile catalog footprint (#75 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #75
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Mean relative depth 56% across 14,356 parsed labels, slot 16.4 on average. Molasses tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Molasses
Across the 14,321 products on this site that list 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 4.7x more often with Molasses than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Molasses products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 3,831 | 26.8% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 967 | 6.8% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 636 | 4.4% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 527 | 3.7% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 461 | 3.2% | 3.4% |
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 Molasses
Products Containing Molasses
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 14,321 indexed products containing Molasses:
Molasses vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Molasses: 14,321 listings averaging 93.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Organic Onions”, “Vitamin C”, “Enriched Wheat Flour”.
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.
Next steps from the Molasses page
Start from Molasses's 14,321 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Molasses and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Molasses with a peer such as “Organic Onions” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Molasses — common follow-ups
Does 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 Molasses. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Molasses? ▼
Molasses ranks in the top decile by product count (#75 of 247,206), appearing in 14,321 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Molasses so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Molasses appears in 14,321 products (#75 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (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.