Organic Cocoa
Organic Cocoa appears in 12,237 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
Organic Cocoa appears in 12,237 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.
- 12,237
- catalogued products
- #89
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2,146
- named brands represented
- 48%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 5959 of 12237 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1% chocolate lowfat milk; 1% chocolate lowfat milk; 1% Chocolate Lowfat Milk to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Organic Cocoa 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.
5959 of 12,237 linked records have some flagged component
All 12151 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.
Organic Cocoa: top-decile catalog footprint (#89 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #89
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 12,311 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 48%
- Averaged label depth puts Organic Cocoa in the upper half of the list (48% of list length, mean slot 12.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Organic Cocoa
Across the 12,237 products on this site that list Organic Cocoa, 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 5.3x more often with Organic Cocoa than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Organic Cocoa products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 2,917 | 23.8% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 1,624 | 13.3% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 1,166 | 9.5% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 994 | 8.1% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 981 | 8% | 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 Organic Cocoa
Products Containing Organic Cocoa
High-volume slice (16 of 12,237) for products naming Organic Cocoa:
Organic Cocoa vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Organic Cocoa sits among other busy catalog rows (12,237 products, mean score 87.2/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Soybean · Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate · Coconut Oil. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Organic Cocoa page
Start from Organic Cocoa's 12,237 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Organic Cocoa 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
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Organic Cocoa 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 Organic Cocoa. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Organic Cocoa? ▼
Organic Cocoa ranks in the top decile by product count (#89 of 247,206), appearing in 12,237 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Organic Cocoa so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Organic Cocoa appears in 12,237 products (#89 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Organic Cocoa). 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.