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Premium belgian chocolate

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0049022740334 · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0049022740334 · Serving size 3 PIECES (40 g)

The verdict

Premium belgian chocolate scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 64 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 64-component record, beginning with Sugar, Chocolate Liquor, Vegetable Fats. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

95/100
Safe safety score
1
One flagged · of 64 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
E
Nutri-Score nutrition grade

Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.

Composite profile score

One verdict from three independent sources

55/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

95/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

E

Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade

Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.

22740334 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Premium belgian chocolate label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 64 ing. REG-SPARSE 20% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 1% LEAD-FLAG Sorbitol PHOTO-SOLO No peers BOOK-OFF …740334 · July 2026

13 of 64 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sorbitol). Source sheet 22740334 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.

Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.

The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 88,006 products we've scored in the Snacks category, the average safety score is 86.1/100. Premium belgian chocolate scores 8.9 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 86.1/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Snacks products

Premium belgian chocolate lists 64 ingredients on its label

64 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 81,477 products we track

0–2: 275 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 2,901 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4,248 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 5,408 products (7%). Below this entry. 8–10: 5,486 products (7%). Below this entry. 10–12: 5,840 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 6,252 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 6,724 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 6,221 products (8%). Below this entry. 18–20: 5,168 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 4,508 products (6%). Below this entry. 22–24: 3,809 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 3,567 products (4%). Below this entry. 26–28: 2,829 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 2,282 products (3%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,905 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,715 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 1,572 products (2%). Below this entry. 36–38: 1,417 products (2%). Below this entry. 38–40: 1,284 products (2%). Below this entry. 40–42: 8,066 products (10%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Snacks product, bucketed by value

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Distribution as text

81,477 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 64 (99th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
275 products (0%)
2–4
2,901 products (4%)
4–6
4,248 products (5%)
6–8
5,408 products (7%)
8–10
5,486 products (7%)
10–12
5,840 products (7%)
12–14
6,252 products (8%)
14–16
6,724 products (8%)
16–18
6,221 products (8%)
18–20
5,168 products (6%)
20–22
4,508 products (6%)
22–24
3,809 products (5%)
24–26
3,567 products (4%)
26–28
2,829 products (3%)
28–30
2,282 products (3%)
30–32
1,905 products (2%)
32–34
1,715 products (2%)
34–36
1,572 products (2%)
36–38
1,417 products (2%)
38–40
1,284 products (2%)
40 and above
8,066 products (10%)

Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026

Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 81,477 Snacks products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Ingredient Safety Analysis

How the 95/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 64 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
2
Chocolate Liquor
3
Vegetable Fats
4
Palm
5
Palm Kernel
6
Rapeseed
7
Cocoa Butter
8
Whole Milk Powder
9
Hazelnuts
10
Organic Wheat Syrup
11
Whey Powder
12
Cream
13
Water
14
Lactose
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Certain People Should Avoid GRAS
15
Almonds
16
Cream Powder
17
Butter
18
Condensed Milk
19
Biscuits
20
Unbleached Wheat Flour
21
Candy Sugar
22
Margarine
23
Coleseed
24
coconut
25
Mono-and Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids
26
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
27
Lactic Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, CURING OR PICKLING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
Safe GRAS
28
Beta-carotene
ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT
Safe GRAS
29
Natural Butter Flavor
30
Cane Sugar
31
Soy Flour
32
Invert Sugar
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER
Cut Back GRAS
33
Sodium Bicarbonate
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
GRAS
34
Cinnamon
35
Nutmeg
36
Organic Raspberry Flavor
37
Butter Oil
38
Emulsifier
39
Soy Lecithin
40
Carrageenan
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
Caution GRAS
41
Cocoa Powder
42
Alcohol
43
Natural Coffee Flavor
44
Stabilizer
45
Sorbitol
Sweetener
Cut Back
46
Sodium Pyrophosphate
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
47
Raspberries
48
Skimmed Milk Powder
49
Vanilla Flavor
50
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
51
Antioxidants
52
Tocopherol
53
Alpha-tocopherol
54
Ascorbyl Palmitate
ANTIOXIDANT
Safe GRAS
55
Maltodextrin
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Safe GRAS
56
Natural Caramel Flavor
57
Coloring
58
Beet Root Extract
59
Paprika Extract
60
Dark Chocolate
61
Minimum 55% Cocoa Solids
62
Milk Chocolate
63
Minimum 31% Cocoa Solids And 18% Milk Solids
64
White Chocolate Minimum 27% Cocoa Solids And 15% Milk Solids

Full Ingredient List

Sugar, chocolate liquor, vegetable fats (palm, palm kernel, rapeseed), cocoa butter, whole milk powder, hazelnuts, wheat syrup, whey powder, cream, water, lactose, almonds, cream powder, butter, condensed milk, biscuits (unbleached wheat flour, candy sugar, margarine [vegetable fats {palm, rapeseed, coleseed, coconut}, mono-and diglycerides of fatty acids, citric acid, lactic acid, beta-carotene, natural butter flavor], cane sugar, soy flour, invert sugar, sodium bicarbonate, cinnamon, nutmeg), natural raspberry flavor, butter oil, emulsifier (soy lecithin, mono-and diglycerides of fatty acids, carrageenan), invert sugar, cocoa powder, alcohol, natural coffee flavor, stabilizer (sorbitol, sodium pyrophosphate), raspberries, skimmed milk powder, natural vanilla flavor, salt, antioxidants (citric acid, tocopherol, alpha-tocopherol, ascorbyl palmitate), maltodextrin, natural caramel flavor, cinnamon, coloring (beet root extract, paprika extract). dark chocolate contains minimum 55% cocoa solids, milk chocolate contains minimum 31% cocoa solids and 18% milk solids, white chocolate minimum 27% cocoa solids and 15% milk solids.

Other products containing Biscuits

Biscuits is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 11 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Snacks Sweet snacks Confectioneries

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Sorbitol is the first flagged ingredient selected from Premium belgian chocolate's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 64-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sorbitol. Open Sorbitol
  • Compare Premium belgian chocolate's 1 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
  • Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0049022740334: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.