Cocoa Powder
Cocoa Powder appears in 7,530 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 Powder appears in 7,530 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.
- 7,530
- catalogued products
- #155
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,999
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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: 2341 of 7530 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100 Calorie Snack Packs Baked Chocolate Wafer Snacks; 100% Arabica Coffee, Mochaccino; 100% Gold Standard Whey Double Rich Chocolate to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Cocoa Powder 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.
2341 of 7,530 linked records have some flagged component
All 7435 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.
High-volume listing for Cocoa Powder - usage rank #155
- Usage rank
- #155
- 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
- 50%
- Mean relative depth 50% across 7,567 parsed labels, slot 13.5 on average. Cocoa Powder tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Powder
Across the 7,530 products on this site that list Cocoa Powder, 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 shows up about 2.1x more often with Cocoa Powder than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cocoa Powder products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 718 | 9.5% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 660 | 8.8% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 599 | 8% | 5.7% |
| Blue 1 | 544 | 7.2% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 543 | 7.2% | 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 Powder
Products Containing Cocoa Powder
16 busy labels from the 7,530 indexed products that list Cocoa Powder:
High-volume peers for Cocoa Powder beside “Organic Tomato Puree”
Cocoa Powder sits among other busy catalog rows (7,530 products, mean score 88.7/100). Nearest count peers include “Organic Tomato Puree”, “Vitamin B12”, “Acesulfame Potassium”. 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.
Next steps from the Cocoa Powder page
Start from Cocoa Powder's 7,530 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Cocoa Powder and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Cocoa Powder — common follow-ups
Does Cocoa Powder 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 Powder. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cocoa Powder? ▼
Cocoa Powder ranks in the top decile by product count (#155 of 247,206), appearing in 7,530 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cocoa Powder so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cocoa Powder appears in 7,530 products (#155 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cocoa Powder). 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.