Turbinado Sugar
Turbinado Sugar appears in 856 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
Turbinado Sugar appears in 856 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.
- 856
- catalogued products
- #732
- usage rank of 247,206
- 276
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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.
Turbinado Sugar: top-decile catalog footprint (#732 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #732
- 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
- 49%
- Averaged label depth puts Turbinado Sugar in the upper half of the list (49% of list length, mean slot 9.6). 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 9.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Turbinado Sugar spans 276 named brands and is led by the Meats and their products group. Start with 365 everyday value, baked naan chips, green chili chutney; Aidells, Chicken Meatballs, Habanero & Green Chile; Aidells, smoked chicken sausage, habanero & green chile when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
276 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 570 of 789 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 Turbinado Sugar
Across the 856 products on this site that list Turbinado Sugar, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Turbinado Sugar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 40 | 4.7% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 21 | 2.5% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 18 | 2.1% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 5 | 0.6% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 5 | 0.6% | 1.1% |
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 Turbinado Sugar
Products Containing Turbinado Sugar
High-volume slice (16 of 856) for products naming Turbinado Sugar:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Anticaking Agent”)
Turbinado Sugar sits among other busy catalog rows (856 products, mean score 98.9/100). Nearest count peers include “Anticaking Agent”, “Whole Oat Flour”, “Alum”. 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.
Next steps from the Turbinado Sugar page
Start from Turbinado Sugar's 856 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Turbinado Sugar to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Turbinado Sugar next to “Whole Oat Flour” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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 Turbinado Sugar
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Turbinado Sugar? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Turbinado Sugar, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#732 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Turbinado Sugar? ▼
Turbinado Sugar ranks in the top decile by product count (#732 of 247,206), appearing in 856 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Turbinado Sugar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Turbinado Sugar appears in 856 products (#732 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Turbinado Sugar). 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.