Cocoa Beans
Cocoa Beans appears in 194 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 Beans appears in 194 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.
- 194
- catalogued products
- #1,979
- usage rank of 247,206
- 65
- named brands represented
- 22%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Cocoa Beans - usage rank #1,979
- Usage rank
- #1,979
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 5 others that also appear in exactly 194 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 22%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 194 products listing it (mean slot 4.3). Cocoa Beans usually falls near the top of the captured 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 7.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cocoa Beans spans 65 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Almond Maple Brittle 70% Dark Chocolate Organic; Amande Milk Chocolate; Amano, Artisan Chocolate when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
65 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 117 of 185 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Cocoa Beans
Across the 194 products on this site that list Cocoa Beans, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cocoa Beans products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 9 | 4.6% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 5 | 2.6% | 1.3% |
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 Beans
Products Containing Cocoa Beans
16 busy labels from the 194 indexed products that list Cocoa Beans:
Cocoa Beans vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Cocoa Beans sits among other busy catalog rows (194 products, mean score 98.3/100). Nearest count peers include “Blue #1 Lake”, “Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast”, “Orange Extract”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Cocoa Beans record
Use the 194-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Cocoa Beans and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Cocoa Beans with a peer such as “Blue #1 Lake” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Cocoa Beans — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cocoa Beans? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cocoa Beans, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,979 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cocoa Beans? ▼
Cocoa Beans ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,979 of 247,206), appearing in 194 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cocoa Beans so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cocoa Beans appears in 194 products (#1,979 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cocoa Beans). 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.