Syrup
Syrup appears in 199 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
Syrup appears in 199 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.
- 199
- catalogued products
- #1,945
- usage rank of 247,206
- 135
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 88 of 199 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Athenian Herb Dryglaze; Australian Black Licorice; Açaí Organic Sorbet Oak Berry to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Syrup 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.
88 of 199 linked records have some flagged component
All 195 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.
Syrup sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,945 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,945
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 10 others that also appear in exactly 199 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Mean relative depth 41% across 199 parsed labels, slot 11.8 on average. Syrup 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 else is usually in the same product as Syrup
Across the 199 products on this site that list Syrup, 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 2.6x more often with Syrup than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Syrup products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 29 | 14.6% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 25 | 12.6% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 17 | 8.5% | 4.8% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 16 | 8% | 2.1% |
| Blue 1 | 16 | 8% | 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 Syrup
Products Containing Syrup
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 199 indexed products containing Syrup:
Syrup vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Syrup: 199 products, mean screening score 86.4/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Artificial And Natural Flavor · Beef Gelatin · Cage Free Eggs. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Syrup record
Use the 199-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Syrup 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. Open a peer record
- 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.
Syrup — common follow-ups
Does Syrup carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Syrup. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Syrup? ▼
Syrup ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,945 of 247,206), appearing in 199 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Syrup so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Syrup appears in 199 products (#1,945 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Syrup). 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.