Dark Sweet Chocolate
Dark Sweet Chocolate appears in 118 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 Sweet Chocolate appears in 118 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.
- 118
- catalogued products
- #2,800
- usage rank of 247,206
- 11
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 35 of 118 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Assorted Chocolate; Assorted Chocolate; Assorted Chocolate to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 45–100 score range to Dark Sweet Chocolate 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.
35 of 118 linked records have some flagged component
All 118 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 45–100 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.
Dark Sweet Chocolate: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,800 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,800
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 20 others that also appear in exactly 118 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 47%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 118 products listing it (mean slot 8.6). Dark Sweet Chocolate 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.
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 Dark Sweet Chocolate
Across the 118 products on this site that list Dark Sweet 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. Red 40 shows up about 5.3x more often with Dark Sweet Chocolate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dark Sweet Chocolate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 34 | 28.8% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 34 | 28.8% | 3.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 11 | 9.3% | 5.7% |
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 Sweet Chocolate
Products Containing Dark Sweet Chocolate
High-volume slice (16 of 118) for products naming Dark Sweet Chocolate:
High-volume peers for Dark Sweet Chocolate beside “Calcium Stearoyl-2-lactylate”
Dark Sweet Chocolate sits among other busy catalog rows (118 products, mean score 85.1/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Calcium Stearoyl-2-lactylate · Chipotle Puree · Coffee Powder. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Next steps from the Dark Sweet Chocolate page
Use the 118-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Dark Sweet Chocolate and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Dark Sweet Chocolate next to “Chipotle Puree” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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 Dark Sweet Chocolate 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 Dark Sweet Chocolate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dark Sweet Chocolate? ▼
Dark Sweet Chocolate ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,800 of 247,206), appearing in 118 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dark Sweet Chocolate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dark Sweet Chocolate appears in 118 products (#2,800 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dark Sweet 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.