Bitter Chocolate
Bitter Chocolate appears in 29 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
Bitter Chocolate appears in 29 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.
- 29
- catalogued products
- #7,222
- usage rank of 247,206
- 10
- named brands represented
- 37%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
55.2% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Bitter Chocolate as the trigger. Open records such as Chocolate negro sin azucar; Dark Chocolate Waffle Cones; Double Rainbow, Custard, Chocolate & Vanilla Malt and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 95.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 37% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
55.2% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 29 of 29 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
High-volume listing for Bitter Chocolate - usage rank #7,222
- Usage rank
- #7,222
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 199 others that also appear in exactly 29 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 29 products listing it (mean slot 9.8). Bitter Chocolate 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.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
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 Bitter Chocolate
Products Containing Bitter Chocolate
16 busy labels from the 29 indexed products that list Bitter Chocolate:
High-volume peers for Bitter Chocolate
Bitter Chocolate sits among other busy catalog rows (29 products, mean score 95.5/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Bitter Chocolate record
29 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Bitter Chocolate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Bitter Chocolate and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Bitter Chocolate — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Bitter Chocolate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
55.2% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Bitter Chocolate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bitter Chocolate? ▼
Bitter Chocolate ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,222 of 247,206), appearing in 29 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bitter Chocolate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bitter Chocolate appears in 29 products (#7,222 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bitter 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.