Powdered Sugar Coating
Powdered Sugar Coating appears in 44 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
Powdered Sugar Coating appears in 44 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.
- 44
- catalogued products
- #5,420
- usage rank of 247,206
- 16
- named brands represented
- 35%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
63.6% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Powdered Sugar Coating as the trigger. Open records such as Assorted Mini Donuts; Black & White Mini Donuts; Blue Bird Bakeries, Powdered Donuts and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 84.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 35% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
63.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 44 of 44 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 Powdered Sugar Coating - usage rank #5,420
- Usage rank
- #5,420
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 86 others that also appear in exactly 44 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 35%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 44 products listing it (mean slot 14.1). Powdered Sugar Coating 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.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Powdered Sugar Coating
Across the 44 products on this site that list Powdered Sugar Coating, 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. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 29.2x more often with Powdered Sugar Coating than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Powdered Sugar Coating products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 27 | 61.4% | 2.1% |
| Red 40 | 5 | 11.4% | 5.4% |
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 Powdered Sugar Coating
Products Containing Powdered Sugar Coating
High-volume slice (16 of 44) for products naming Powdered Sugar Coating:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Powdered Sugar Coating sits among other busy catalog rows (44 products, mean score 84.8/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Powdered Sugar Coating record
44 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Powdered Sugar Coating are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Powdered Sugar Coating to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Powdered Sugar Coating
How should I read safety signals when Powdered Sugar Coating sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
63.6% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Powdered Sugar Coating is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Powdered Sugar Coating? ▼
Powdered Sugar Coating ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,420 of 247,206), appearing in 44 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Powdered Sugar Coating so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Powdered Sugar Coating appears in 44 products (#5,420 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Powdered Sugar Coating). 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.