Dark Chocolate
Dark Chocolate appears in 3,357 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
Dark Chocolate appears in 3,357 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.
- 3,357
- catalogued products
- #283
- usage rank of 247,206
- 771
- named brands represented
- 17%
- 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.
Dark Chocolate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#283 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #283
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 3,357 products, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 17%
- Averaged label depth puts Dark Chocolate near the top of the captured list (17% of list length, mean slot 4.8). 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dark Chocolate spans 771 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 12 Organic Protein Bars Variety Pack - Peanut Butter, Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter with Sea Salt; 2 Toffee Cream Meringues; 22 days nutrition, organic protein bar, daily, mocha mantra when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
771 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 3077 of 3318 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 Dark Chocolate
Across the 3,357 products on this site that list Dark Chocolate, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dark Chocolate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 186 | 5.5% | 5.4% |
| Carrageenan | 143 | 4.3% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 136 | 4.1% | 5.7% |
| Blue 1 | 120 | 3.6% | 4.2% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 109 | 3.2% | 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 Dark Chocolate
Products Containing Dark Chocolate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 3,357 indexed products containing Dark Chocolate:
Dark Chocolate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Dark Chocolate: 3,357 products, mean screening score 95.1/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Yellow Corn Flour; Rice Starch; Egg Yolk. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Dark Chocolate record
3,357 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Dark Chocolate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Dark Chocolate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Dark Chocolate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dark Chocolate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#283 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dark Chocolate? ▼
Dark Chocolate ranks in the top decile by product count (#283 of 247,206), appearing in 3,357 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dark Chocolate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dark Chocolate appears in 3,357 products (#283 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dark Chocolate). 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.