Cocoa Butter

Cocoa Butter appears in 23,899 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 Butter appears in 23,899 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.

23,899
catalogued products
#42
usage rank of 248,027
3,760
named brands represented
34%
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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 5132 of 23899 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0230 Choc-Au-Lait™ Gourmet White Baking Chips; 0242/0243 Akoma Fair Trade Extra Semisweet Chocolate Chips; 0295 Milk Chocolate Baking Chips to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Cocoa Butter 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.

All 23673 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.

Where Cocoa Butter sits among catalogued ingredients

Usage rank
#42
of 248,027 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
34%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 23,929 products listing it (mean slot 8.4). Cocoa Butter 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. 248,027 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 Butter

Across the 23,899 products on this site that list Cocoa Butter, 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 Butter products Share of all products
Red 40 1,875 7.8% 5.4%
Blue 1 1,558 6.5% 4.2%
Yellow 5 1,547 6.5% 4.8%
Carrageenan 1,446 6.1% 4.5%
Yellow 6 1,442 6% 3.4%

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, 2026-08-02.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Cocoa Butter safe to eat?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cocoa Butter, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.

What products contain Cocoa Butter?

Cocoa Butter is found in 23,899 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.

What does Cocoa Butter do in food?

The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Cocoa Butter. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.

Citation notes Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.

Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.

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