Or Less Of Unsweetened Chocolate

Or Less Of Unsweetened Chocolate appears in 42 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 Unsweetened Chocolate appears in 42 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.

42
catalogued products
#5,603
usage rank of 247,206
1
named brands represented
32%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Audit the co-occurring flags first

97.6% 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 Unsweetened Chocolate as the trigger. Open records such as Big Cone Reduced Fat Ice Cream; Big Dipper Vanilla Frozen Dairy Dessert; Blue Bunny Mini Swirls Vanilla Mini Ice Cream Cones and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 80.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 32% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

97.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 42 of 42 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 Unsweetened Chocolate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,603 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#5,603
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 93 others that also appear in exactly 42 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
32%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 42 products listing it (mean slot 11.5). Or Less Of Unsweetened 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.

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

Across the 42 products on this site that list Or Less Of Unsweetened 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 20.6x more often with Or Less Of Unsweetened Chocolate than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +88.4ppCarrageenan+88.4ppCaramel Coloring: +68.1ppCaramel Coloring+68.1ppRed 40: +8.9ppRed 40+8.9ppYellow 6: +8.5ppYellow 6+8.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Or Less Of Unsweetened Chocolate products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Carrageenan
88.4pp
Caramel Coloring
68.1pp
Red 40
8.9pp
Yellow 6
8.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Or Less Of Unsweetened Chocolate products Share of all products
Carrageenan 39 92.9% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 31 73.8% 5.7%
Red 40 6 14.3% 5.4%
Yellow 6 5 11.9% 3.4%

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 Unsweetened 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 20406080100 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Or Less Of Unsweetened 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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

High-volume peers for Or Less Of Unsweetened Chocolate: 42 products, mean screening score 80/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

What to do with this Or Less Of Unsweetened Chocolate record

Use the 42-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Or Less Of Unsweetened Chocolate and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
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  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins

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

Frequently Asked Questions

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

97.6% 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 Unsweetened 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 Unsweetened Chocolate?

Or Less Of Unsweetened Chocolate ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,603 of 247,206), appearing in 42 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

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

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Or Less Of Unsweetened Chocolate appears in 42 products (#5,603 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Or Less Of Unsweetened 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.