Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali

Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali appears in 903 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 Processed With Alkali appears in 903 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.

903
catalogued products
#714
usage rank of 247,206
251
named brands represented
48%
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: 373 of 903 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Cocoa Unsweetened Chocolate; 100% Mass Gainer Chocolate Fudge Brownie; 2 Degrees, Snack Bar With Quinoa, Millet And Chia, Chocolate Peanut to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali 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.

373 of 903 linked records have some flagged component

All 900 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 Powder Processed With Alkali: top-decile catalog footprint (#714 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#714
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 903 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
48%
Averaged label depth puts Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali in the upper half of the list (48% of list length, mean slot 13.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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 else is usually in the same product as Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali

Across the 903 products on this site that list Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali, 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 Powder Processed With Alkali than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +14.5ppRed 40+14.5ppBlue 1: +12.4ppBlue 1+12.4ppYellow 5: +11.7ppYellow 5+11.7ppCarrageenan: +9.9ppCarrageenan+9.9ppTitanium Dioxide: +8.3ppTitanium Dioxide+8.3pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali 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
14.5pp
Blue 1
12.4pp
Yellow 5
11.7pp
Carrageenan
9.9pp
Titanium Dioxide
8.3pp
Additive Shared products Share of Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali products Share of all products
Red 40 180 19.9% 5.4%
Blue 1 150 16.6% 4.2%
Yellow 5 149 16.5% 4.8%
Carrageenan 130 14.4% 4.5%
Titanium Dioxide 94 10.4% 2.1%

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 Processed With Alkali

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 051015 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali
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.

Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali: 903 listings averaging 79.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Defatted Soy Flour”, “Tahini”, “Vitamin A Palmitate Added”.

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.

Next steps from the Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali page

Use the 903-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Place Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali next to “Tahini” (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. 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 Powder Processed With Alkali 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 Processed With Alkali. 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 Processed With Alkali?

Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali ranks in the top decile by product count (#714 of 247,206), appearing in 903 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali appears in 903 products (#714 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali). 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.