Sucrose

Drug ingredient

CAS 57-50-1

This drug ingredient has classified U.S. production volumes. EPA withholds the number as confidential business information.

US productionCBI

Confidential Business Information. The EPA withholds this volume because publishing it could reveal the reporting company's trade secrets.

Import value, 2024$2.5B

Top sourceBrazil 29%

At least one company claimed its 2023 production or import volume for this chemical as confidential, so EPA withholds it.

Why supply is unknown

Production is reported production, not a complete census of factories. US production volume is confidential. Production reporting year: 2023.

Where It Comes From

Customs basis: HS 170112, 170114, 170199 · exact

EPA reports by year

2023: US production Confidential · Imports Confidential
2019: US production Confidential · Imports Confidential

Source Countries

Country of origin for US imports, from Census customs data (2024).

BR 29%BrazilMX 16%MexicoGT 7%GuatemalaDO 6%Dominican RepublicSV 6%El Salvador

India
Bolivia
Jamaica
Belgium
Germany
China
South Korea
Taiwan
Egypt
Italy
Morocco
Finland
Japan
Switzerland
Austria
Moldova
Belarus
United Kingdom
Norway
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Poland
Afghanistan
Portugal
United Arab Emirates
Netherlands
Russia
Vietnam
Ukraine
Turkey
Pakistan
Armenia
Hong Kong
Croatia

EPA-registered manufacturers (1)

Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.

Linde

Domestic parents -- activity not disclosed (2)

EPA records name a US company for this chemical but do not disclose whether the company made it here or imported it.

Avantor

Target

EPA-registered importers (2)

Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.

Hexion

International Flavors And Fragrances

17 FDA-registered drug labelers

Apex Energetics Inc.

Bestmade Natural Products

BioActive Nutritional, Inc.

Boiron

Carbalor LLC

Deseret Biologicals, Inc

DNA Labs, Inc.

Dr. Donna Restivo DC

Energetix Corporation

Energique, Inc.

Hahnemann Laboratories, INC.

Murphree Chiropractic

Newton Laboratories, Inc.

Pick Enterprises Corp

Professional Complementary Health Formulas

Temple Health Nutrition, LLC

Uriel Pharmacy Inc.

Why It Matters

Sectors

HealthConstructionPaints & Coatings

Downstream Uses

Appears in 33 drug and cosmetic product listings (FDA).

•Saccharum Officinale
•Habit
•Cand Plus
•Allergies
•Aller-Chord F
•Leaky Gut Formula
•Grain and Seed Antigens
•Alcostat

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•Chip Cravings
•Glucose Drops 2031
•Glyreg
•Gut Brain Spectrum
•Anti-Smoking I Drops 2007
•Anti-Smoking II Drops 2008
•Substance Abuse Drops 2063
•A04 DEEP Antitox
•Drop20
•PMS Relief
•Intimate
•Lactistat
•Isopathic Phenolic Rings
•TH-101
•Shame
•Connection
•2 Transform
•Bestmade Natural Products BM73
•Focus
•A-5
•Appetrol 20
•Food Additives
•Sugar Cravings
•Anise Pyrite
•B05 Gluco Balance

FDA Shortage Status

Whether any manufacturer currently reports this drug as in shortage on the FDA Drug Shortages database. "Active Shortage" means at least one presentation has status "current."

No FDA shortage records

Industrial Uses

Used in 2 sectors as 2 functional roles.

•Stabilizing agent in Paint and Coating Manufacturing (100%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
•Adhesion/cohesion promoter in Construction (100%)Processing—incorporation into article

Vendor Pricing

$0.01/gAngene Chemical

CountryChina (registered: Hong Kong)

Pack$252.00 / 25 kg

Purity99.5%

Vendors19 available

Prices reflect listed pack sizes. Small research packs run far above bulk rates.

18 more vendors

Vendor	Country	$/g	Pack	Purity
Sigma-Aldrich (Rush Stock)	Germany	$0.02	25 kg	—
Sigma-Aldrich	Germany	$0.02	25 kg	—
A2B Chem LLC	United States	$0.02	25 kg	98%
AA BLOCKS	United States	$0.02	25 kg	99.5%
Apollo Scientific US	United Kingdom	$0.04	5 kg	—
Fluorochem UK	United Kingdom	$0.04	1 kg	99%
AK Scientific Specialized	United States	$0.07	1 kg	—
AK Scientific, Inc.	United States	$0.09	1 kg	99.9%
Angene International Limited	United States	$0.24	500 g	—
Combi-Blocks, Inc.	United States	$0.25	1 kg	98%
AstaTech, Inc	United States	$0.99	100 g	95%
MedChemExpress MCE	Sweden	$6.29	5 g	99.86%
TargetMol Chemicals	China → United States	$58.00	500 mg	99.97%
ChemNorm	China	$200.00	50 mg	98%
Vitas M Chemical Limited	Hong Kong	$442.00	1 g	90%
ChemFaces	China	$1500.00	20 mg	98%
Princeton BioMolecular Research (SC)	United States	$2900.00	100 mg	90%
Angene	China → Hong Kong	$4266.67	30 mg	99.5%

Chemical Identity

CAS57-50-1

PubChem CID5988

DTXSIDDTXSID2021288

FormulaC12H22O11

Mol. Weight342.3 g/mol

SMILESC(C1C(C(C(C(O1)OC2(C(C(C(O2)CO)O)O)CO)O)O)O)O

Data Sources

EPA CompTox (DSSTox) · DTXSID2021288Retrieved 2026-04-06
PubChem · compound 5988Retrieved 2026-04-06
EPA Chemical Data ReportingReporting year: 2023 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
FDA National Drug Code directoryRetrieved 2026-04-07
US Census international tradeReporting year: 2024 · Retrieved 2026-10-04

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Brief citations

Sucrose (CAS 57-50-1) https://chemicalindependence.com/chemical/57-50-1/ EPA CompTox (DSSTox): DTXSID2021288. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/chemical/details/DTXSID2021288 PubChem: 5988. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/5988 EPA Chemical Data Reporting: 57-50-1. Reporting year: 2023. https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting FDA National Drug Code directory: CAS 57-50-1. Retrieved 2026-04-07. https://open.fda.gov/data/ndc/ US Census international trade: HS 170112,170114,170199 for CAS 57-50-1. Reporting year: 2024. https://usatrade.census.gov/