Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate
Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate appears in 26 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
Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate appears in 26 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.
- 26
- catalogued products
- #7,791
- usage rank of 247,206
- 14
- named brands represented
- 43%
- 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.
Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#7,791 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,791
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 209 others that also appear in exactly 26 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 43%
- Mean relative depth 43% across 26 parsed labels, slot 15.7 on average. Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate spans 14 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 39% Cacao Rich Milk Chocolate Premium Baking Bar, Milk Chocolate; Chocolate Covered Pretzels; Chocomize, Just Nuts - Milk when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
14 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 26 of 26 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.
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 Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate
Products Containing Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate
High-volume slice (16 of 26) for products naming Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate:
Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate: 26 listings averaging 97.3/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate page
Use the 26-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#7,791 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate? ▼
Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,791 of 247,206), appearing in 26 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate appears in 26 products (#7,791 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate). 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.