Or Less Of Chocolate

Or Less Of Chocolate appears in 31 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

Or Less Of Chocolate appears in 31 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.

31
catalogued products
#6,896
usage rank of 247,206
10
named brands represented
51%
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

Audit the co-occurring flags first

93.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Or Less Of Chocolate as the trigger. Open records such as Cookies & cream vanilla ice cream, cookies & cream; Cookies & Creme Dessert, Cookies & Creme; Cookies 'N Cream Ice Cream and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 84.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 51% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

93.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 31 of 31 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

Or Less Of Chocolate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#6,896 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#6,896
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 153 others that also appear in exactly 31 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
51%
Averaged label depth puts Or Less Of Chocolate in the lower half of the list (51% of list length, mean slot 18.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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.

What else is usually in the same product as Or Less Of Chocolate

Across the 31 products on this site that list Or Less Of 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. Carrageenan shows up about 17.2x more often with Or Less Of Chocolate than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Or Less Of Chocolate products Share of all products
Carrageenan 24 77.4% 4.5%
Polysorbate 80 13 41.9% 1.3%

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 Or Less Of Chocolate

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 0246 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Or Less Of Chocolate
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.

High-volume peers for Or Less Of Chocolate

High-volume peers for Or Less Of Chocolate: 31 products, mean screening score 84.4/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

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 Or Less Of Chocolate page

Use the 31-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Or Less Of Chocolate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
  • 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.

Or Less Of Chocolate — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Or Less Of Chocolate sits in heavily flagged products?

93.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Or Less Of Chocolate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Or Less Of Chocolate?

Or Less Of Chocolate ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,896 of 247,206), appearing in 31 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Or Less Of Chocolate so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Or Less Of Chocolate appears in 31 products (#6,896 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Or Less Of 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.