Chocolate Flavored Flakes

Chocolate Flavored Flakes appears in 55 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 Flakes appears in 55 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.

55
catalogued products
#4,670
usage rank of 247,206
25
named brands represented
36%
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

Audit the co-occurring flags first

85.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Chocolate Flavored Flakes as the trigger. Open records such as 100% real ice cream; Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream; Chocolate chunk and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 75.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 36% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

85.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 55 of 55 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

High-volume listing for Chocolate Flavored Flakes - usage rank #4,670

Usage rank
#4,670
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 61 others that also appear in exactly 55 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
36%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 55 products listing it (mean slot 11.6). Chocolate Flavored Flakes 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.

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.

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

Across the 55 products on this site that list Chocolate Flavored Flakes, 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 18.2x more often with Chocolate Flavored Flakes than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +77.3ppCarrageenan+77.3ppPolysorbate 80: +38.7ppPolysorbate 80+38.7ppBlue 1: +28.5ppBlue 1+28.5ppYellow 5: +18.8ppYellow 5+18.8ppTitanium Dioxide: +8.8ppTitanium Dioxide+8.8pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Chocolate Flavored Flakes 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
77.3pp
Polysorbate 80
38.7pp
Blue 1
28.5pp
Yellow 5
18.8pp
Titanium Dioxide
8.8pp
Additive Shared products Share of Chocolate Flavored Flakes products Share of all products
Carrageenan 45 81.8% 4.5%
Polysorbate 80 22 40% 1.3%
Blue 1 18 32.7% 4.2%
Yellow 5 13 23.6% 4.8%
Titanium Dioxide 6 10.9% 2.1%

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 Flakes

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 20406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Chocolate Flavored Flakes
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 Chocolate Flavored Flakes beside “100% Organic Grass Fed Beef”

Top-decile company for Chocolate Flavored Flakes: 55 listings averaging 75.5/100. Nearest count peers include “100% Organic Grass Fed Beef”, “Acai Juice”, “Added As Preservatives”.

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 Chocolate Flavored Flakes page

Use the 55-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 Flakes and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology

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

Chocolate Flavored Flakes — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Chocolate Flavored Flakes sits in heavily flagged products?

85.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Chocolate Flavored Flakes is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Chocolate Flavored Flakes?

Chocolate Flavored Flakes ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,670 of 247,206), appearing in 55 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Chocolate Flavored Flakes so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chocolate Flavored Flakes appears in 55 products (#4,670 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chocolate Flavored Flakes). 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.