Cacao Bean
Cacao Bean appears in 30 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
Cacao Bean appears in 30 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.
- 30
- catalogued products
- #7,050
- usage rank of 247,206
- 9
- named brands represented
- 4%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Cacao Bean - usage rank #7,050
- Usage rank
- #7,050
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 171 others that also appear in exactly 30 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 4%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 30 products listing it (mean slot 1.5). Cacao Bean 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.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 3.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cacao Bean spans 9 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Alderwood Smoked Salt Chocolate; Almond Chunky Chocolate; Bonbon Chocolate Bar when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
9 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 23 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 Cacao Bean
Products Containing Cacao Bean
16 busy labels from the 30 indexed products that list Cacao Bean:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Cacao Bean: 30 listings averaging 99.8/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Cacao Bean evidence
30 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Cacao Bean are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Cacao Bean before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Cacao Bean
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cacao Bean? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cacao Bean, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#7,050 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cacao Bean? ▼
Cacao Bean ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,050 of 247,206), appearing in 30 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cacao Bean so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cacao Bean appears in 30 products (#7,050 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cacao Bean). 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.