Chocolate Flavored Coating

Chocolate Flavored Coating appears in 389 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 Flavored Coating appears in 389 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.

389
catalogued products
#1,226
usage rank of 247,206
90
named brands represented
25%
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: 178 of 389 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Abbott, Glucerna, Nutrition Bars, Peanut Chocolate Chip, Peanut Chocolate Chip; Actric blasters crispy bars; alani nu protein bar rocky road to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Chocolate Flavored 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.

178 of 389 linked records have some flagged component

All 389 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 Chocolate Flavored Coating - usage rank #1,226

Usage rank
#1,226
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 389 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
25%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 389 products listing it (mean slot 10.5). Chocolate Flavored Coating usually falls in the upper 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Chocolate Flavored Coating

Across the 389 products on this site that list Chocolate Flavored 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 5.5x more often with Chocolate Flavored Coating than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +20.2ppCarrageenan+20.2ppSucralose: +16.1ppSucralose+16.1ppCaramel Coloring: +8.7ppCaramel Coloring+8.7ppPolysorbate 80: +3.3ppPolysorbate 80+3.3ppAcesulfame Potassium: +1.8ppAcesulfame Potassium+1.8pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Chocolate Flavored Coating products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Carrageenan
20.2pp
Sucralose
16.1pp
Caramel Coloring
8.7pp
Polysorbate 80
3.3pp
Acesulfame Potassium
1.8pp
Additive Shared products Share of Chocolate Flavored Coating products Share of all products
Carrageenan 96 24.7% 4.5%
Sucralose 73 18.8% 2.7%
Caramel Coloring 56 14.4% 5.7%
Polysorbate 80 18 4.6% 1.3%
Acesulfame Potassium 14 3.6% 1.8%

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 Flavored Coating

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 050100150 02468 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Chocolate Flavored Coating
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.

Chocolate Flavored Coating vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Chocolate Flavored Coating: 389 products, mean screening score 92/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Less Than 1% - Corn Syrup · Spice Extracts · Cheddar Cheese Powder. 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

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Chocolate Flavored Coating evidence

Use the 389-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Chocolate Flavored Coating and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Compare Chocolate Flavored Coating with a peer such as “Less Than 1% - Corn Syrup” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Chocolate Flavored 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 Flavored 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 Flavored Coating?

Chocolate Flavored Coating ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,226 of 247,206), appearing in 389 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Chocolate Flavored Coating so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chocolate Flavored Coating appears in 389 products (#1,226 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chocolate Flavored 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.