Cocoa Processed With Alkali
Cocoa Processed With Alkali appears in 5,781 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 Processed With Alkali appears in 5,781 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.
- 5,781
- catalogued products
- #192
- usage rank of 247,206
- 920
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
57.2% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Cocoa Processed With Alkali as the trigger. Open records such as 1% Chocolate Milk; 1% Low Fat Chocolate Milk; 1% Low Fat Chocolate Milk, Chocolate and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 85.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 47% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
57.2% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 5699 of 5754 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Cocoa Processed With Alkali sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#192 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #192
- 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
- 47%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 5,782 products listing it (mean slot 14.1). Cocoa Processed With Alkali usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Processed With Alkali
Across the 5,781 products on this site that list Cocoa 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. Carrageenan shows up about 7.8x more often with Cocoa Processed With Alkali than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cocoa Processed With Alkali products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 2,034 | 35.2% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 944 | 16.3% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 753 | 13% | 1.3% |
| Red 40 | 681 | 11.8% | 5.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 596 | 10.3% | 1.4% |
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 Processed With Alkali
Products Containing Cocoa Processed With Alkali
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 5,781 indexed products containing Cocoa Processed With Alkali:
Cocoa Processed With Alkali vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Cocoa Processed With Alkali: 5,781 listings averaging 85.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Polysorbate 60”, “Monoglycerides”, “Corn Oil”.
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 Processed With Alkali page
Use the 5,781-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 Processed With Alkali to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Cocoa Processed With Alkali
How should I read safety signals when Cocoa Processed With Alkali sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
57.2% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Cocoa Processed With Alkali is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cocoa Processed With Alkali? ▼
Cocoa Processed With Alkali ranks in the top decile by product count (#192 of 247,206), appearing in 5,781 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cocoa Processed With Alkali so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cocoa Processed With Alkali appears in 5,781 products (#192 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cocoa 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.