Theobromine
Theobromine carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 39 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Theobromine appears in 39 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Listed.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 39
- catalogued products
- #5,893
- usage rank of 247,206
- 17
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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.
Theobromine sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,893 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,893
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 113 others that also appear in exactly 39 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Mean relative depth 56% across 39 parsed labels, slot 15.7 on average. Theobromine tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
64.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Theobromine as the trigger. Open records such as Bulk; BULK; Bulk and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 83.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 56% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
64.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 34 of 34 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Theobromine
Across the 39 products on this site that list Theobromine, 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. Sucralose shows up about 22.8x more often with Theobromine than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Theobromine products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 24 | 61.5% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 12 | 30.8% | 1.8% |
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.
Function
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
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 Theobromine
Products Containing Theobromine
High-volume slice (16 of 39) for products naming Theobromine:
Theobromine vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Theobromine: 39 products, mean screening score 83.8/100. 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.
Using the Theobromine evidence
Start from Theobromine's 39 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Theobromine to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Theobromine
How should I read safety signals when Theobromine sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
64.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Theobromine is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Theobromine scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "Listed". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Theobromine? ▼
Theobromine ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,893 of 247,206), appearing in 39 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Theobromine serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Theobromine is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Theobromine). 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.