Unsweetened Cocoa
Unsweetened Cocoa appears in 66 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 Cocoa appears in 66 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.
- 66
- catalogued products
- #4,131
- usage rank of 247,206
- 27
- named brands represented
- 38%
- 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 Cocoa: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,131 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,131
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 47 others that also appear in exactly 66 products, listed in more products than 98.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 38%
- Mean relative depth 38% across 66 parsed labels, slot 7.9 on average. Unsweetened Cocoa tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Unsweetened Cocoa spans 27 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with A rich cocoa, chocolate chip & marshmallow cookie; American Gra-Frutti, Chocolate Cake; American Gra-Frutti, You Love Chocolate Chip Cake when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
27 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 52 of 65 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.
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 Cocoa
Products Containing Unsweetened Cocoa
16 busy labels from the 66 indexed products that list Unsweetened Cocoa:
High-volume peers for Unsweetened Cocoa beside “Almond Protein”
High-volume peers for Unsweetened Cocoa: 66 products, mean screening score 98.3/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Almond Protein · Alpha Amylase · Arôme. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Unsweetened Cocoa page
Use the 66-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Unsweetened Cocoa to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Unsweetened Cocoa with a peer such as “Almond Protein” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Unsweetened Cocoa — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Unsweetened Cocoa? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Unsweetened Cocoa, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,131 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Unsweetened Cocoa? ▼
Unsweetened Cocoa ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,131 of 247,206), appearing in 66 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Unsweetened Cocoa so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Unsweetened Cocoa appears in 66 products (#4,131 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Unsweetened Cocoa). 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.