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Cocoa Powder
Cocoa Powder
Safe
Cocoa powder is a minimally processed ingredient. Contains caffeine and theobromine, but in safe amounts at typical dietary exposure.
Found in
17,137 products
What it is
Cocoa powder is the dry, defatted solid of cacao beans.
Chocolate flavoring and coloring.
Why it's flagged
- Trace heavy metals (cadmium, lead) in some cocoa products
What regulators actually say
"Cocoa is the food prepared by pulverizing the material remaining after part of the cacao fat has been removed from ground cacao nibs."
Regulatory status
United States — FDA
Standardized food (21 CFR 163.112)
European Union — EFSA
Authorised food
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