Sweetener
Sweetener appears in 957 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
Sweetener appears in 957 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.
- 957
- catalogued products
- #679
- usage rank of 247,206
- 257
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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
51.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Sweetener as the trigger. Open records such as 100 Plus Pro; 100% Whey Protein; 100% Whey Protein Powder and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 79.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 58% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
51.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 956 of 956 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.
Sweetener: top-decile catalog footprint (#679 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #679
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 58%
- Averaged label depth puts Sweetener in the lower half of the list (58% of list length, mean slot 11.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Sweetener
Across the 957 products on this site that list Sweetener, 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. Acesulfame Potassium shows up about 12.2x more often with Sweetener than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sweetener products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acesulfame Potassium | 210 | 21.9% | 1.8% |
| Sucralose | 191 | 20% | 2.7% |
| Aspartame | 175 | 18.3% | 0.9% |
| Red 40 | 146 | 15.3% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 101 | 10.6% | 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.
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 Sweetener
Products Containing Sweetener
16 busy labels from the 957 indexed products that list Sweetener:
High-volume peers for Sweetener beside “Confectioners Glaze”
Sweetener sits among other busy catalog rows (957 products, mean score 79.2/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Confectioners Glaze; Sodium Molybdate; Part-skim Milk. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Sweetener page
Start from Sweetener's 957 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Sweetener and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Sweetener sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
51.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Sweetener is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sweetener? ▼
Sweetener ranks in the top decile by product count (#679 of 247,206), appearing in 957 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sweetener so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sweetener appears in 957 products (#679 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sweetener). 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.