Cocoa Extract
Cocoa Extract carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 131 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Cocoa Extract appears in 131 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Listed.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 131
- catalogued products
- #2,592
- usage rank of 247,206
- 53
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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.
Cocoa Extract: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,592 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,592
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 16 others that also appear in exactly 131 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 131 products listing it (mean slot 17.8). Cocoa Extract usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cocoa Extract spans 53 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with All The Good Things; Aloha chocolate fudge brownie; Amped-Up Organic Protein Bars - Double Chocolate Coconut when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
53 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 101 of 125 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 Extract
Across the 131 products on this site that list Cocoa Extract, 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 36.6x more often with Cocoa Extract than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cocoa Extract products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 24 | 18.3% | 0.5% |
| Carrageenan | 11 | 8.4% | 4.5% |
| Sucralose | 8 | 6.1% | 2.7% |
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.
Function
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
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 Extract
Products Containing Cocoa Extract
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 131 indexed products containing Cocoa Extract:
High-volume peers for Cocoa Extract beside “Apple Pectin”
High-volume peers for Cocoa Extract: 131 products, mean screening score 97.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Apple Pectin · Beef Collagen Casing · Cornflour. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Cocoa Extract evidence
131 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Cocoa Extract are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Cocoa Extract and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Cocoa Extract next to “Beef Collagen Casing” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Cocoa Extract
What do the source ratings say about Cocoa Extract? ▼
Cocoa Extract has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: Listed. With only 15.3% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cocoa Extract? ▼
Cocoa Extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,592 of 247,206), appearing in 131 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Cocoa Extract do in food? ▼
Cocoa Extract is recorded as a flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cocoa Extract). 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.