Dark Chocolate Raisins

Dark Chocolate Raisins appears in 20 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 Raisins appears in 20 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.

20
catalogued products
#9,371
usage rank of 247,206
7
named brands represented
34%
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 Raisins sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#9,371 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#9,371
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 358 others that also appear in exactly 20 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
34%
Averaged label depth puts Dark Chocolate Raisins in the upper half of the list (34% of list length, mean slot 11.2). 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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 15% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dark Chocolate Raisins spans 7 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Chocolate Raisin Nut Trail Mix; Chocolate Raisin Nut Trail Mix; Fruit & Nut Mix With Dark Chocolate Covered Raisins when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 85.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

7 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 20 of 20 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.

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 Raisins

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 Dark Chocolate Raisins
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.

Dark Chocolate Raisins vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Dark Chocolate Raisins sits among other busy catalog rows (20 products, mean score 85/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

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 Dark Chocolate Raisins page

Start from Dark Chocolate Raisins's 20 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Dark Chocolate Raisins to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • 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. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Dark Chocolate Raisins — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Dark Chocolate Raisins?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dark Chocolate Raisins, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,371 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Dark Chocolate Raisins?

Dark Chocolate Raisins ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,371 of 247,206), appearing in 20 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Dark Chocolate Raisins so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dark Chocolate Raisins appears in 20 products (#9,371 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dark Chocolate Raisins). 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.