Real Sugar
Real Sugar appears in 36 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
Real Sugar appears in 36 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.
- 36
- catalogued products
- #6,225
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7
- named brands represented
- 33%
- 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.
Real Sugar: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,225 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,225
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 114 others that also appear in exactly 36 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 33%
- Mean relative depth 33% across 36 parsed labels, slot 5.5 on average. Real Sugar tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Real Sugar spans 7 named brands and is led by the Beverages group. Start with Blue sky, natural soda; Blue sky, natural soda, black cherry; Blue sky, natural soda, cola when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
7 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 32 of 32 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 Real Sugar
Across the 36 products on this site that list Real 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 2.9x more often with Real Sugar than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Real Sugar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 16.7% | 5.7% |
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 Real Sugar
Products Containing Real Sugar
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 36 indexed products containing Real Sugar:
High-volume peers for Real Sugar
Real Sugar sits among other busy catalog rows (36 products, mean score 98.8/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Real Sugar page
Start from Real Sugar's 36 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Real Sugar and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s 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.
Questions readers ask about Real Sugar
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Real Sugar? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Real Sugar, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,225 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Real Sugar? ▼
Real Sugar ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,225 of 247,206), appearing in 36 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Real Sugar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Real Sugar appears in 36 products (#6,225 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Real 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.