White Granulated Sugar

White Granulated Sugar appears in 15 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

White Granulated Sugar appears in 15 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.

15
catalogued products
#11,449
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 4 of 15 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Beef Flavored Ramen; Chenpi Huasheng; Cioppino Base to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 45–100 score range to White Granulated Sugar 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.

4 of 15 linked records have some flagged component

All 15 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 45–100 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.

White Granulated Sugar sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#11,449 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#11,449
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 546 others that also appear in exactly 15 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
29%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 15 products listing it (mean slot 8.0). White Granulated Sugar 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.

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.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 15 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 White Granulated Sugar

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 15 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing White Granulated Sugar
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Top-decile company for White Granulated Sugar: 15 listings averaging 94/100.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

What to do with this White Granulated Sugar record

15 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on White Granulated Sugar are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing White Granulated Sugar before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

White Granulated Sugar — common follow-ups

Does White Granulated Sugar 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 White Granulated Sugar. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with White Granulated Sugar?

White Granulated Sugar ranks in the top decile by product count (#11,449 of 247,206), appearing in 15 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is White Granulated Sugar so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet White Granulated Sugar appears in 15 products (#11,449 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (White Granulated 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.