Semi-sweet Chocolate
Semi-sweet Chocolate appears in 641 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
Semi-sweet Chocolate appears in 641 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.
- 641
- catalogued products
- #887
- usage rank of 247,206
- 238
- named brands represented
- 28%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Semi-sweet Chocolate - usage rank #887
- Usage rank
- #887
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 28%
- Mean relative depth 28% across 641 parsed labels, slot 9.3 on average. Semi-sweet Chocolate tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Semi-sweet Chocolate spans 238 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Almond chocolate biscotti; Almond Chocolate Chip Vegan Cookies; Baklava Platter when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
238 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 619 of 636 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Semi-sweet Chocolate
Across the 641 products on this site that list Semi-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. Carrageenan shows up about 1.6x more often with Semi-sweet Chocolate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Semi-sweet Chocolate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 45 | 7% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 32 | 5% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 27 | 4.2% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 26 | 4.1% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 26 | 4.1% | 4.2% |
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 Semi-sweet Chocolate
Products Containing Semi-sweet Chocolate
16 busy labels from the 641 indexed products that list Semi-sweet Chocolate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Alkalized Cocoa”)
Top-decile company for Semi-sweet Chocolate: 641 listings averaging 95/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Alkalized Cocoa; Steviol Glycosides; Garbanzo Beans.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Semi-sweet Chocolate evidence
641 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Semi-sweet Chocolate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Semi-sweet Chocolate and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Semi-sweet Chocolate next to “Steviol Glycosides” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Semi-sweet Chocolate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Semi-sweet Chocolate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#887 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Semi-sweet Chocolate? ▼
Semi-sweet Chocolate ranks in the top decile by product count (#887 of 247,206), appearing in 641 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Semi-sweet Chocolate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Semi-sweet Chocolate appears in 641 products (#887 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Semi-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.