Milk Chocolate

Milk Chocolate appears in 6,167 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

Milk Chocolate appears in 6,167 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.

6,167
catalogued products
#179
usage rank of 247,206
1,013
named brands represented
11%
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: 1875 of 6167 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% milk chocolate; 2 Peanut Butter Cups; 2 Peanut Butter Cups to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Milk Chocolate itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

1875 of 6,167 linked records have some flagged component

All 6124 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.

Milk Chocolate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#179 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#179
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
11%
Averaged label depth puts Milk Chocolate near the top of the captured list (11% of list length, mean slot 4.0). 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 Milk Chocolate

Across the 6,167 products on this site that list Milk 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 3.5x more often with Milk Chocolate than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +13.3ppRed 40+13.3ppBlue 1: +12.6ppBlue 1+12.6ppYellow 6: +13.2ppYellow 6+13.2ppYellow 5: +11.7ppYellow 5+11.7ppBlue 2: +13.5ppBlue 2+13.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Milk 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.

Red 40
13.3pp
Blue 1
12.6pp
Yellow 6
13.2pp
Yellow 5
11.7pp
Blue 2
13.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Milk Chocolate products Share of all products
Red 40 1,153 18.7% 5.4%
Blue 1 1,034 16.8% 4.2%
Yellow 6 1,023 16.6% 3.4%
Yellow 5 1,019 16.5% 4.8%
Blue 2 885 14.4% 0.9%

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 Milk 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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Milk 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.

Milk Chocolate vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Milk Chocolate: 6,167 listings averaging 80.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Baking Powder; Beta Carotene; Seasoning.

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.

Using the Milk Chocolate evidence

Start from Milk Chocolate's 6,167 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Milk 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 Milk Chocolate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Milk Chocolate?

Milk Chocolate ranks in the top decile by product count (#179 of 247,206), appearing in 6,167 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Milk Chocolate so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Milk Chocolate appears in 6,167 products (#179 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Milk 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.