Natural Chocolate
Natural Chocolate appears in 7,790 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
Natural Chocolate appears in 7,790 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.
- 7,790
- catalogued products
- #147
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,081
- named brands represented
- 34%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2525 of 7790 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Cocoa Unsweetened Chocolate; 100% Natural Cookies, Chocolate Chunk; 12 g. protein bar to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Natural Chocolate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
2525 of 7,790 linked records have some flagged component
All 7739 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
High-volume listing for Natural Chocolate - usage rank #147
- Usage rank
- #147
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 34%
- Averaged label depth puts Natural Chocolate in the upper half of the list (34% of list length, mean slot 9.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Natural Chocolate
Across the 7,790 products on this site that list Natural 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. Red 40 shows up about 3.1x more often with Natural Chocolate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Natural Chocolate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 1,314 | 16.9% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 1,142 | 14.7% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 1,117 | 14.3% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 1,060 | 13.6% | 3.4% |
| Blue 2 | 895 | 11.5% | 0.9% |
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 Natural Chocolate
Products Containing Natural Chocolate
16 busy labels from the 7,790 indexed products that list Natural Chocolate:
Natural Chocolate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Natural Chocolate: 7,790 products, mean screening score 83/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Sunflower Lecithin; Gum Arabic; Soy. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Natural Chocolate evidence
Start from Natural Chocolate's 7,790 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Natural Chocolate and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Natural Chocolate with a peer such as “Sunflower Lecithin” on 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Natural Chocolate — common follow-ups
Does Natural Chocolate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Natural Chocolate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Natural Chocolate? ▼
Natural Chocolate ranks in the top decile by product count (#147 of 247,206), appearing in 7,790 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Natural Chocolate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Chocolate appears in 7,790 products (#147 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural 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.