Foods With High-Fructose Corn Syrup
24,937 US grocery products in this catalogue list High-Fructose Corn Syrup on the label. 15,572 of them carry both a product name and a brand and can be listed by name.
24,937 US products list High-Fructose Corn Syrup (2.8% of 894,137)
High-Fructose Corn Syrup is one of the catalogue's high-frequency additives: it appears on more than one in every fifty US products recorded here (2.8% of 894,137). No additive tracked on these pages has a wider footprint: High-Fructose Corn Syrup sits at the top of the 11, ahead of Red Dye 40 at 22,216 products. Counts come from Open Food Facts labels joined in PlainFoodSafe; FDA SAFFA and CSPI status appear only when the registry record exists. This page reports label occurrence and attributed status, not whether anyone should eat the product.
- 2.8% catalogue share
- 15,572 named brand matches
- Kroger largest brand footprint
The short answer
Kroger accounts for the most named products listing High-Fructose Corn Syrup in this extract (330 of 15,572 listable matches); brand #15 on the same list has 114, and the median of these 15 brand counts is 156.
- 24,937
- US products listing High-Fructose Corn Syrup
- 2.8%
- of 894,137 catalogue records
- 330
- Kroger leads named-brand matches
- 114
- brand #15 cutoff on this list
Counts are label occurrence in the current Open Food Facts snapshot, not a recall, certification, or medical recommendation.
High-Fructose Corn Syrup is one of the catalogue's high-frequency additives: it appears on more than one in every fifty US products recorded here (2.8% of 894,137). No additive tracked on these pages has a wider footprint: High-Fructose Corn Syrup sits at the top of the 11, ahead of Red Dye 40 at 22,216 products. The mean position on the ingredient list is 9. Ingredient lists run in descending order of weight, so that is mid-label: past the base ingredients, ahead of the smallest-quantity additives. Caramel Coloring leads its label companions at 23.0%, moderately above the 5.7% it holds across the whole catalogue.
Neither our state-action table nor the FDA SAFFA extract carries a status entry for High-Fructose Corn Syrup, so this page reports label occurrence only. CSPI's Chemical Cuisine classification for it is "Cut Back", which is CSPI's rating, not PlainFoodSafe's.
Brands with the most products listing High-Fructose Corn Syrup
No single brand dominates: the largest, Kroger, holds 2.1% of listable matches, and the fifteen below together cover 2,730, so this is a broad industry-wide ingredient rather than one company's formulation habit.
| # | Brand | Listing High-Fructose Corn Syrup |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kroger | 330 |
| 2 | Meijer | 270 |
| 3 | Food Club | 235 |
| 4 | Food Lion | 229 |
| 5 | Great Value | 212 |
| 6 | Spartan | 189 |
| 7 | Weis | 174 |
| 8 | Roundy's | 156 |
| 9 | Shoprite | 152 |
| 10 | Oreo | 144 |
| 11 | Hannaford | 142 |
| 12 | Harris Teeter | 134 |
| 13 | Clover Valley | 131 |
| 14 | Giant Eagle | 118 |
| 15 | Valu Time | 114 |
Where these products sit by category
By the label's own primary category, matches cluster hardest in Snacks (3,091 products, 19.8% of listable matches).
| Primary category (as labelled) | Products |
|---|---|
| Snacks | 3,091 |
| Plant-based foods and beverages | 1,912 |
| Beverages | 1,524 |
| Condiments | 1,373 |
| Desserts | 1,290 |
| Beverages and beverages preparations | 422 |
| Meals | 251 |
| Salted-snacks | 215 |
| Sweeteners | 186 |
| Dairies | 166 |
What else is on the same labels
Share of High-Fructose Corn Syrup labels carrying each ingredient, next to that ingredient's share of the whole catalogue. A co-occurrence close to the baseline means the two simply meet by chance.
| Ingredient | On High-Fructose Corn Syrup labels | Catalogue baseline |
|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 23.0% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 16.2% | 5.4% |
| Carrageenan | 12.1% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 11.2% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 9.8% | 4.2% |
Named products listing High-Fructose Corn Syrup
Thirty of the 15,572 listable matches, ordered by how many flagged additives each label carries in total. Every row links to that product's own record.
Methodology
Matches come from the parsed ingredient links in the PlainFoodSafe database: a product counts here when its OpenFoodFacts ingredient list resolves to the High-Fructose Corn Syrup record. The headline 24,937 is every matching product in the catalogue; the 15,572 listable figure is the subset that also carries a usable product name and brand, which is what the tables above can show by name. Regulatory status is read from the FDA SAFFA extract and the state-action table; the rating word is CSPI's own classification. See the full methodology for how the catalogue is built and dated. The additive status we quote is the FDA's own, so read it at the source: Verify with FDA Substances Added to Food → Source: OpenFoodFacts, https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data
Caveats and limitations
OpenFoodFacts is crowdsourced, so coverage varies by category and brand and a label recorded here may be out of date relative to the product on the shelf today, because reformulation is common and this catalogue reflects the snapshot it was built from, not a live audit of packaging. Ingredient parsing normalises label spellings and can miss unusual ones, so treat the counts as a floor rather than a census. Presence on a label says nothing about quantity, and nothing on this page is a statement about whether any product is safe for any particular person to eat; for that, read the High-Fructose Corn Syrup source record and the named regulators directly.
Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Every count on this page is computed from the parsed OpenFoodFacts ingredient links and the FDA/state source tables, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.