Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating
Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating appears in 189 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 Flavored Coating appears in 189 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.
- 189
- catalogued products
- #2,017
- usage rank of 247,206
- 56
- named brands represented
- 21%
- 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 Flavored Coating: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,017 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,017
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 189 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 21%
- Mean relative depth 21% across 189 parsed labels, slot 6.0 on average. Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating tends to sit near the top of the captured 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating spans 56 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Ahold protein granola bars peanut; Bars; Black & White Drizzle Popcorn, Black & White Drizzle when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 94.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
56 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 187 of 189 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 Flavored Coating
Across the 189 products on this site that list Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating, 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. Sucralose shows up about 3.3x more often with Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 17 | 9% | 2.7% |
| Carrageenan | 15 | 7.9% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 8 | 4.2% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 7 | 3.7% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 5 | 2.6% | 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 Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating
Products Containing Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 189 indexed products containing Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural Almond Extract”)
High-volume peers for Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating: 189 products, mean screening score 94.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Natural Almond Extract · Flaxseed Meal · Glucuronolactone. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating evidence
Start from Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating's 189 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating next to “Flaxseed Meal” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,017 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating? ▼
Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,017 of 247,206), appearing in 189 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating appears in 189 products (#2,017 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating). 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.