Sucrose
Sucrose carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 1,425 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sucrose appears in 1,425 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 1,425
- catalogued products
- #528
- usage rank of 247,206
- 515
- named brands represented
- 39%
- 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.
Sucrose: top-decile catalog footprint (#528 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #528
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 1,425 products, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 39%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,425 products listing it (mean slot 11.9). Sucrose 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 640 of 1425 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100 Plus Pro; 2% reduced fat chocolate milk; 2% reduced fat milk, chocolate to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sucrose 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.
640 of 1,425 linked records have some flagged component
All 1416 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Sucrose
Across the 1,425 products on this site that list Sucrose, 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 3.4x more often with Sucrose than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sucrose products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 219 | 15.4% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 170 | 11.9% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 136 | 9.5% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 96 | 6.7% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 91 | 6.4% | 4.2% |
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.
Function
NUTRITIVE SWEETENER
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 Sucrose
Products Containing Sucrose
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,425 indexed products containing Sucrose:
High-volume peers for Sucrose beside “Organic Coconut Milk”
Sucrose sits among other busy catalog rows (1,425 products, mean score 87.8/100). Nearest count peers include “Organic Coconut Milk”, “Potato”, “Cabbage”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Sucrose evidence
Use the 1,425-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Sucrose and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Sucrose — common follow-ups
Does Sucrose carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Sucrose itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sucrose? ▼
Sucrose ranks in the top decile by product count (#528 of 247,206), appearing in 1,425 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Sucrose do in food? ▼
Sucrose is recorded as a nutritive sweetener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sucrose). 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.