Cocoa Drops

Cocoa Drops appears in 45 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 Drops appears in 45 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.

45
catalogued products
#5,333
usage rank of 247,206
22
named brands represented
47%
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: 19 of 45 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Assorted cookies; Assorted Cookies; Assorted cookies, assorted to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Cocoa Drops 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.

19 of 45 linked records have some flagged component

All 45 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 Drops sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,333 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#5,333
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 86 others that also appear in exactly 45 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
47%
Averaged label depth puts Cocoa Drops in the upper half of the list (47% of list length, mean slot 17.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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 Drops

Across the 45 products on this site that list Cocoa Drops, 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. Red 40 shows up about 3.7x more often with Cocoa Drops than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +14.6ppRed 40+14.6ppCaramel Coloring: +14.3ppCaramel Coloring+14.3ppTitanium Dioxide: +15.7ppTitanium Dioxide+15.7ppYellow 5: +10.8ppYellow 5+10.8ppYellow 6: +12.2ppYellow 6+12.2pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Cocoa Drops products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Red 40
14.6pp
Caramel Coloring
14.3pp
Titanium Dioxide
15.7pp
Yellow 5
10.8pp
Yellow 6
12.2pp
Additive Shared products Share of Cocoa Drops products Share of all products
Red 40 9 20% 5.4%
Caramel Coloring 9 20% 5.7%
Titanium Dioxide 8 17.8% 2.1%
Yellow 5 7 15.6% 4.8%
Yellow 6 7 15.6% 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, 2026-09-01.

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 Drops

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 050100150 0246810 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cocoa Drops
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.

High-volume peers for Cocoa Drops

Cocoa Drops sits among other busy catalog rows (45 products, mean score 80.3/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Cocoa Drops evidence

Start from Cocoa Drops's 45 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Cocoa Drops before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Cocoa Drops 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 Drops. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Cocoa Drops?

Cocoa Drops ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,333 of 247,206), appearing in 45 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Cocoa Drops so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cocoa Drops appears in 45 products (#5,333 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cocoa Drops). 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.