Bittersweet Chocolate
Bittersweet Chocolate appears in 252 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
Bittersweet Chocolate appears in 252 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.
- 252
- catalogued products
- #1,686
- usage rank of 248,027
- 91
- named brands represented
- 21%
- 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.
Where Bittersweet Chocolate sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #1,686
- of 248,027 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 252 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 21%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 252 products listing it (mean slot 6.6). Bittersweet Chocolate usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 248,027 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Bittersweet Chocolate spans 91 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 60% Dark Chocolate Filled With Caramel & Spiced Apple; almonds & sea salt 72% cocoa dark chocolate; Almonds Dark Chocolate Biscotti when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 239 of 248 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Bittersweet Chocolate
Across the 252 products on this site that list Bittersweet Chocolate, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Carrageenan shows up about 1.6x more often with Bittersweet Chocolate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Bittersweet Chocolate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 18 | 7.1% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 17 | 6.7% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 9 | 3.6% | 1.3% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 8 | 3.2% | 1.4% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-08-02.
Products Containing Bittersweet Chocolate
A sample of 16 of the 252 indexed products containing Bittersweet Chocolate, with each product's overall safety score.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Bittersweet Chocolate safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Bittersweet Chocolate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain Bittersweet Chocolate? ▼
Bittersweet Chocolate is found in 252 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does Bittersweet Chocolate do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Bittersweet Chocolate. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.
Citation notes
Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
