Cocoa - Processed With Alkali
Cocoa - Processed With Alkali appears in 51 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
Cocoa - Processed With Alkali appears in 51 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.
- 51
- catalogued products
- #4,904
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 46%
- 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: 17 of 51 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Brownie bites; Candycane cocoa; Chocolate Squares to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Cocoa - Processed With Alkali 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.
17 of 51 linked records have some flagged component
All 51 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.
Cocoa - Processed With Alkali sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,904 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,904
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 66 others that also appear in exactly 51 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 46%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 51 products listing it (mean slot 8.7). Cocoa - Processed With Alkali 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 Cocoa - Processed With Alkali
Across the 51 products on this site that list Cocoa - Processed With Alkali, 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 7.4x more often with Cocoa - Processed With Alkali than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cocoa - Processed With Alkali products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 17 | 33.3% | 4.5% |
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 Cocoa - Processed With Alkali
Products Containing Cocoa - Processed With Alkali
16 busy labels from the 51 indexed products that list Cocoa - Processed With Alkali:
Cocoa - Processed With Alkali vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Cocoa - Processed With Alkali: 51 products, mean screening score 95.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Agar Gum · Aged Red Pepper · Alcohol Denat. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Cocoa - Processed With Alkali evidence
Start from Cocoa - Processed With Alkali's 51 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Cocoa - Processed With Alkali and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Cocoa - Processed With Alkali 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 Cocoa - Processed With Alkali. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cocoa - Processed With Alkali? ▼
Cocoa - Processed With Alkali ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,904 of 247,206), appearing in 51 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cocoa - Processed With Alkali so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cocoa - Processed With Alkali appears in 51 products (#4,904 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cocoa - Processed With Alkali). 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.