Unsweetened Chocolate
Unsweetened Chocolate appears in 4,755 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
Unsweetened Chocolate appears in 4,755 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.
- 4,755
- catalogued products
- #218
- usage rank of 247,206
- 963
- named brands represented
- 39%
- 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.
Unsweetened Chocolate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#218 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #218
- 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
- 39%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 4,760 products listing it (mean slot 10.0). 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Unsweetened Chocolate spans 963 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Cacao Unsweetend Chocolate Baking Bar; 100% cacao unsweetened chocolate baking bar; 100% cacao unsweetened chocolate chips when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
963 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 4354 of 4691 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 Unsweetened Chocolate
Across the 4,755 products on this site that list 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 1.8x more often with Unsweetened Chocolate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Unsweetened Chocolate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 381 | 8% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 287 | 6% | 5.7% |
| Sucralose | 195 | 4.1% | 2.7% |
| Red 40 | 137 | 2.9% | 5.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 117 | 2.5% | 1.4% |
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 Unsweetened Chocolate
Products Containing Unsweetened Chocolate
16 busy labels from the 4,755 indexed products that list Unsweetened Chocolate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Vitamin E”)
Top-decile company for Unsweetened Chocolate: 4,755 listings averaging 95.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Vitamin E”, “Confectioner's Glaze”, “Cultures”.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Unsweetened Chocolate record
4,755 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Unsweetened Chocolate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Unsweetened Chocolate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Unsweetened Chocolate with a peer such as “Vitamin E” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Unsweetened Chocolate
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Unsweetened Chocolate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Unsweetened Chocolate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#218 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Unsweetened Chocolate? ▼
Unsweetened Chocolate ranks in the top decile by product count (#218 of 247,206), appearing in 4,755 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Unsweetened Chocolate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Unsweetened Chocolate appears in 4,755 products (#218 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (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.