Sucrose

CAS 57-50-1

Sucrose is table sugar, from cane or beet. As an additive it is a sweetener, a preservative at high concentration, a bulking agent and a browning agent.

Where it is and isn’t permitted

Status of Sucrose by jurisdiction. Every jurisdiction this site covers is listed, including those where the substance does not appear.
JurisdictionStatusScope and limitsCitation
United StatesFood and Drug AdministrationPermitted21 CFR 184.1854retrieved 2026-09-07
Codex AlimentariusCodex Alimentarius Commission / JECFANot listedDoes not appear on this jurisdiction’s permitted list. That is not the same as being prohibited.

What it is made from

Extracted and crystallised from sugar cane or sugar beet. One detail is not on any label: some cane refineries decolourise with bone char, made from cattle bone, while beet sugar never uses it. Nothing from the char remains in the sugar, but its use is why some vegans avoid non-organic cane sugar.

  • Vegan status depends on the source
  • Vegetarian
  • May raise a kosher question

This is not an omission. What this additive is made from is not fixed — depending on the manufacturer it may be plant, animal or microbial in origin, nobody is required to say which, and the same product can change source between production runs. Ask the manufacturer if it matters to you; a label cannot answer it.

CAS registry number
57-50-1
InChIKey
CZMRCDWAGMRECN-UGDNZRGBSA-N
PubChem
CID 5988

Every name it appears under

64 recorded names. A label may use any of them.

CAS registry number

  • 57-50-1
  • 92004-84-7

As it appears in regulation

  • Sucrose

Other names

  • (+)-Sucrose
  • (alpha-D-Glucosido)-beta-D-fructofuranoside
  • 1-alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-2-beta-D-fructofuranoside
  • alpha-D-Glucopyranoside, beta-D-fructofuranosyl
  • alpha-D-Glucopyranoside, beta-D-fructofuranosyl-
  • alpha-D-Glucopyranosyl beta-D-fructofuranoside
  • alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-(1->2)-beta-D-fructofuranoside
  • Amerfand
  • Amerfond
  • beta-D-Fructofuranoside, alpha-D-glucopyranosyl
  • beta-D-Fructofuranosyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside
  • beta-D-Fructofuranosyl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside
  • Cane sugar
  • CAS-57-50-1
  • CCRIS 2120
  • Confectioner's sugar
  • D(+)-Saccharose
  • D-(+)-Saccharose
  • D-(+)-Sucrose
  • D-Saccharose
  • D-Sucrose
  • DYSPEPSIA HEADACHE
  • Frost Sugar
  • Fructofuranoside, alpha-D-glucopyranosyl, beta-D
  • GLC-(1-2)FRU
  • Glucopyranoside, beta-D-fructofuranosyl, alpha-D
  • GNE-410
  • GZE GODDESS SUGAR SCRUB
  • HSDB 500
  • Microse
  • Rock candy
  • Rohrzucker
  • sacarosa
  • Saccarose
  • saccharose
  • Saccharum
  • SACCHARUM OFFICINALE
  • Sacharose
  • Sucraloxum
  • sucrose
  • Sucrose (for injection)
  • Sucrose (Standard)
  • Sucrose - USP
  • Sucrose 15%
  • Sucrose CRS
  • Sucrose Palmitic Acid (1:1 Mixture)
  • Sucrose solution
  • Sucrose, AR
  • Sucrose, dust
  • Sucrose, LR
  • Sucrose, pure
  • Sucrose, purified
  • SUCS
  • sugar
  • sugars, total
  • Table sugar
  • White sugar

Systematic names

  • (2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-2-(((2S,3S,4S,5R)-3,4-Dihydroxy-2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)tetrahydrofuran-2-yl)oxy)-6-(hydroxymethyl)tetrahydro-2H-pyran-3,4,5-triol
  • (2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-2-[(2S,3S,4S,5R)-3,4-dihydroxy-2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)oxolan-2-yl]oxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxane-3,4,5-triol
  • (2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-2-{[(2S,3S,4S,5R)-3,4-dihydroxy-2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)oxolan-2-yl]oxy}-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxane-3,4,5-triol
  • beta-D-fructofuranosyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside

Hazard reference values

No reference value for this substance in the sources we hold.

Evidence and how bodies read it

Studies, and the differing conclusions regulators drew from them, are curated by hand rather than machine-read, and none has been written for this substance yet.

Sources for this page

  • ecfr retrieved 2026-09-07

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