Dutch Processed Cocoa
Dutch Processed Cocoa appears in 40 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
Dutch Processed Cocoa appears in 40 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.
- 40
- catalogued products
- #5,797
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7
- named brands represented
- 52%
- 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.
Dutch Processed Cocoa sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,797 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,797
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 40 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 52%
- Averaged label depth puts Dutch Processed Cocoa in the lower half of the list (52% of list length, mean slot 10.2). 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 12.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dutch Processed Cocoa spans 7 named brands and is led by the Desserts group. Start with almond MALK ORGANIC CHOCOLATE; black raspberry chip frozen greek yogurt bars; Chocolate Chocolate when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.5/100 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 35 of 38 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 Dutch Processed Cocoa
Products Containing Dutch Processed Cocoa
High-volume slice (16 of 40) for products naming Dutch Processed Cocoa:
High-volume peers for Dutch Processed Cocoa
Dutch Processed Cocoa sits among other busy catalog rows (40 products, mean score 98.5/100). 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.
What to do with this Dutch Processed Cocoa record
40 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Dutch Processed Cocoa are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Dutch Processed Cocoa and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Dutch Processed Cocoa? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dutch Processed Cocoa, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,797 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dutch Processed Cocoa? ▼
Dutch Processed Cocoa ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,797 of 247,206), appearing in 40 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dutch Processed Cocoa so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dutch Processed Cocoa appears in 40 products (#5,797 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dutch Processed Cocoa). 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.