Cacao Nibs
Cacao Nibs appears in 288 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 Nibs appears in 288 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.
- 288
- catalogued products
- #1,523
- usage rank of 247,206
- 138
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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.
Cacao Nibs sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,523 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,523
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 288 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 288 products listing it (mean slot 7.5). Cacao Nibs usually falls in the lower half of the 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. 247,206 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 0.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cacao Nibs spans 138 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 18 rabbits, organic walnuts, flax, and cacao nibs veritas granola; 60% Dark Chocolate Covered Cacao Nibs; Activtaed Grain-Free Matcha Granola Cacao Mint when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 100.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
138 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 121 of 263 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 Cacao Nibs
Across the 288 products on this site that list Cacao Nibs, 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 7x more often with Cacao Nibs than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cacao Nibs products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 10 | 3.5% | 0.5% |
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, 2026-09-01.
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 Nibs
Products Containing Cacao Nibs
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 288 indexed products containing Cacao Nibs:
High-volume peers for Cacao Nibs beside “Fish Sauce”
Cacao Nibs sits among other busy catalog rows (288 products, mean score 100/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Fish Sauce; Annatto For Color; Bromelain. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Cacao Nibs record
288 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Cacao Nibs are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Cacao Nibs to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Cacao Nibs with a peer such as “Fish Sauce” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Cacao Nibs
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cacao Nibs? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cacao Nibs, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,523 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cacao Nibs? ▼
Cacao Nibs ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,523 of 247,206), appearing in 288 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cacao Nibs so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cacao Nibs appears in 288 products (#1,523 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cacao Nibs). 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.