Chocolate Coating
Chocolate Coating appears in 234 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
Chocolate Coating appears in 234 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.
- 234
- catalogued products
- #1,768
- usage rank of 247,206
- 106
- named brands represented
- 32%
- 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: 89 of 234 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Assorted chocolates; Atkins, endulge, chocolate peanut candies; Aussie style chocolate creme sandwich cookies to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Chocolate Coating 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.
89 of 234 linked records have some flagged component
All 233 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.
Chocolate Coating: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,768 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,768
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 234 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 32%
- Mean relative depth 32% across 234 parsed labels, slot 11.4 on average. Chocolate Coating tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Chocolate Coating
Across the 234 products on this site that list Chocolate Coating, 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 4x more often with Chocolate Coating than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Chocolate Coating products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 42 | 17.9% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 23 | 9.8% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 23 | 9.8% | 5.7% |
| Sucralose | 15 | 6.4% | 2.7% |
| Blue 1 | 15 | 6.4% | 4.2% |
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 Chocolate Coating
Products Containing Chocolate Coating
16 busy labels from the 234 indexed products that list Chocolate Coating:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Chicken White Meat”)
High-volume peers for Chocolate Coating: 234 products, mean screening score 90/100. Nearest count peers include “Chicken White Meat”, “Disodium Inosinate & Disodium Guanylate”, “Fish Protein”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Chocolate Coating page
234 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Chocolate Coating are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Chocolate Coating and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Chocolate Coating with a peer such as “Chicken White Meat” 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Chocolate Coating 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 Chocolate Coating. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Chocolate Coating? ▼
Chocolate Coating ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,768 of 247,206), appearing in 234 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Chocolate Coating so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chocolate Coating appears in 234 products (#1,768 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chocolate Coating). 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.