Cocoa Mass

Cocoa Mass appears in 2,462 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 Mass appears in 2,462 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.

2,462
catalogued products
#350
usage rank of 247,206
683
named brands represented
29%
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 Mass - usage rank #350

Usage rank
#350
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
29%
Averaged label depth puts Cocoa Mass in the upper half of the list (29% of list length, mean slot 6.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 8.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cocoa Mass spans 683 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Rich Volcanic Cocoa; 5 Adorable Assorted Truffle Pig Chocolates; 50% cacao dark chocolate with cherry when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

683 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 2318 of 2434 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 Mass

Across the 2,462 products on this site that list Cocoa Mass, 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: -1.1ppCarrageenan-1.1ppTitanium Dioxide: +0.3ppTitanium Dioxide+0.3ppRed 40: -3.2ppRed 40-3.2ppBlue 1: -2.5ppBlue 1-2.5ppYellow 5: -3.5ppYellow 5-3.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Cocoa Mass products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Carrageenan
-1.1pp
Titanium Dioxide
0.3pp
Red 40
-3.2pp
Blue 1
-2.5pp
Yellow 5
-3.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Cocoa Mass products Share of all products
Carrageenan 84 3.4% 4.5%
Titanium Dioxide 60 2.4% 2.1%
Red 40 53 2.2% 5.4%
Blue 1 42 1.7% 4.2%
Yellow 5 32 1.3% 4.8%

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 Mass

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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cocoa Mass
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 Mass beside “Erythritol”

Top-decile company for Cocoa Mass: 2,462 listings averaging 97.5/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Erythritol · Wheat Bran · Cherries.

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 Mass record

2,462 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Cocoa Mass are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing Cocoa Mass before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Place Cocoa Mass next to “Wheat Bran” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
  • 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 Mass

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cocoa Mass?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cocoa Mass, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#350 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Cocoa Mass?

Cocoa Mass ranks in the top decile by product count (#350 of 247,206), appearing in 2,462 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Cocoa Mass so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cocoa Mass appears in 2,462 products (#350 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cocoa Mass). 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.