Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips

Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips appears in 714 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

Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips appears in 714 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.

714
catalogued products
#831
usage rank of 247,206
262
named brands represented
37%
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

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 143 of 714 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 3 Pack Chocolate Chip Muffins; A rich cocoa, chocolate chip & marshmallow cookie; Almond chocolate chip protein bar to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

143 of 714 linked records have some flagged component

All 706 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.

High-volume listing for Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips - usage rank #831

Usage rank
#831
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 714 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
37%
Averaged label depth puts Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips in the upper half of the list (37% of list length, mean slot 11.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.

What else is usually in the same product as Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips

Across the 714 products on this site that list Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.1x more often with Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +6.5ppCaramel Coloring+6.5ppPolysorbate 60: +2.9ppPolysorbate 60+2.9ppCarrageenan: -0.2ppCarrageenan-0.2ppRed 40: -1.3ppRed 40-1.3ppYellow 5: -0.7ppYellow 5-0.7pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Caramel Coloring
6.5pp
Polysorbate 60
2.9pp
Carrageenan
-0.2pp
Red 40
-1.3pp
Yellow 5
-0.7pp
Additive Shared products Share of Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 87 12.2% 5.7%
Polysorbate 60 31 4.3% 1.4%
Carrageenan 31 4.3% 4.5%
Red 40 29 4.1% 5.4%
Yellow 5 29 4.1% 4.8%

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 Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips
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 Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips beside “Condensed Milk”

High-volume peers for Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips: 714 products, mean screening score 94.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Condensed Milk”, “Vegetable Broth”, “Azodicarbonamide”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

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.

Next steps from the Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips page

714 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Compare Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips with a peer such as “Condensed Milk” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
  • 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.

Questions readers ask about Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips

Does Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips 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 Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips?

Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips ranks in the top decile by product count (#831 of 247,206), appearing in 714 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips appears in 714 products (#831 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips). 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.