Sugar Alcohol
Sugar Alcohol appears in 112 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
Sugar Alcohol appears in 112 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.
- 112
- catalogued products
- #2,903
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7
- named brands represented
- 29%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Sugar Alcohol - usage rank #2,903
- Usage rank
- #2,903
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 112 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 29%
- Averaged label depth puts Sugar Alcohol in the upper half of the list (29% of list length, mean slot 9.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sugar Alcohol spans 7 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with All Purpose Soy Sauce; Chocolate Peanut Butter Flavor Protein Bar; Dorayaki Baked Red Bean Cake 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 110 of 112 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 Sugar Alcohol
Across the 112 products on this site that list Sugar Alcohol, 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 2.5x more often with Sugar Alcohol than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sugar Alcohol products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 16 | 14.3% | 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 Sugar Alcohol
Products Containing Sugar Alcohol
16 busy labels from the 112 indexed products that list Sugar Alcohol:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Chili Pepper And Other Spices”)
High-volume peers for Sugar Alcohol: 112 products, mean screening score 98.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Chili Pepper And Other Spices · Expeller Pressed Vegetable Oil · Flaxseed Oil. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Sugar Alcohol evidence
Use the 112-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Sugar Alcohol and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Sugar Alcohol
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sugar Alcohol? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sugar Alcohol, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,903 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sugar Alcohol? ▼
Sugar Alcohol ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,903 of 247,206), appearing in 112 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sugar Alcohol so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sugar Alcohol appears in 112 products (#2,903 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sugar Alcohol). 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.