Chocolatey Coating

Chocolatey Coating appears in 120 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

Chocolatey Coating appears in 120 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.

120
catalogued products
#2,769
usage rank of 247,206
38
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

Audit the co-occurring flags first

65% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Chocolatey Coating as the trigger. Open records such as Ahold chewy chocolatey dipped granola bars chocolate chips; Archer farms, red velvet brownie; Bar Cake Black Forest and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 88.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 32% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

65% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 119 of 119 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 Chocolatey Coating - usage rank #2,769

Usage rank
#2,769
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 16 others that also appear in exactly 120 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
32%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 120 products listing it (mean slot 12.5). Chocolatey 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.

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 Chocolatey Coating

Across the 120 products on this site that list Chocolatey 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 7.6x more often with Chocolatey Coating than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +29.7ppCarrageenan+29.7ppCaramel Coloring: +27.6ppCaramel Coloring+27.6ppBHT: +15.6ppBHT+15.6ppTitanium Dioxide: +5.4ppTitanium Dioxide+5.4ppRed 40: +0.4ppRed 40+0.4pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Chocolatey 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
29.7pp
Caramel Coloring
27.6pp
BHT
15.6pp
Titanium Dioxide
5.4pp
Red 40
0.4pp
Additive Shared products Share of Chocolatey Coating products Share of all products
Carrageenan 41 34.2% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 40 33.3% 5.7%
BHT 20 16.7% 1.1%
Titanium Dioxide 9 7.5% 2.1%
Red 40 7 5.8% 5.4%

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 Chocolatey 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 406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Chocolatey 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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Arrowroot Flour”)

Top-decile company for Chocolatey Coating: 120 listings averaging 88.5/100. Nearest count peers include “Arrowroot Flour”, “Cooking Wine”, “Organic Crisp Brown Rice”.

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 Chocolatey Coating page

Start from Chocolatey Coating's 120 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Chocolatey Coating before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Compare Chocolatey Coating with a peer such as “Arrowroot Flour” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins

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

Chocolatey Coating — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Chocolatey Coating sits in heavily flagged products?

65% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Chocolatey Coating is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Chocolatey Coating?

Chocolatey Coating ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,769 of 247,206), appearing in 120 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Chocolatey Coating so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chocolatey Coating appears in 120 products (#2,769 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chocolatey 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.