Natural Chocolate Flavor

Natural Chocolate Flavor appears in 227 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 Flavor appears in 227 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.

227
catalogued products
#1,798
usage rank of 247,206
110
named brands represented
63%
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 Natural Chocolate Flavor - usage rank #1,798

Usage rank
#1,798
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 227 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
63%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 227 products listing it (mean slot 12.7). Natural Chocolate Flavor 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.

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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 15% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Natural Chocolate Flavor spans 110 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Grass-fed Whey Protein Isolate; 100% Grass-Fed Whey Protein Isolate Chocolate Peanut Butter; 32g Plant Protein 0g Sugar Chocolate when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

110 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 227 of 227 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 Natural Chocolate Flavor

Across the 227 products on this site that list Natural Chocolate Flavor, 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 30.8x more often with Natural Chocolate Flavor than in the catalogue at large.

Monk fruit extract: +14.9ppMonk fruit extract+14.9ppCaramel Coloring: +0ppCaramel Coloring+0ppCarrageenan: -0.1ppCarrageenan-0.1ppRed 40: -2.8ppRed 40-2.8ppSucralose: -0.5ppSucralose-0.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Natural Chocolate Flavor products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Monk fruit extract
14.9pp
Caramel Coloring
0pp
Carrageenan
-0.1pp
Red 40
-2.8pp
Sucralose
-0.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Natural Chocolate Flavor products Share of all products
Monk fruit extract 35 15.4% 0.5%
Caramel Coloring 13 5.7% 5.7%
Carrageenan 10 4.4% 4.5%
Red 40 6 2.6% 5.4%
Sucralose 5 2.2% 2.7%

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 Flavor

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 406080100120 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Natural Chocolate Flavor
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Natural Chocolate Flavor beside “Organic Cumin Powder”

Top-decile company for Natural Chocolate Flavor: 227 listings averaging 96.6/100. Nearest count peers include “Organic Cumin Powder”, “Reduced Protein Whey”, “Millet Flour”.

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.

Next steps from the Natural Chocolate Flavor page

Use the 227-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Natural Chocolate Flavor to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Place Natural Chocolate Flavor next to “Reduced Protein Whey” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
  • 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 Natural Chocolate Flavor

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Natural Chocolate Flavor?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Natural Chocolate Flavor, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,798 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Natural Chocolate Flavor?

Natural Chocolate Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,798 of 247,206), appearing in 227 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Natural Chocolate Flavor so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Chocolate Flavor appears in 227 products (#1,798 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Chocolate Flavor). 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.