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Cocoa powders: allergens and what’s inside
Of 653 packs of cocoa powders whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 11% list soy and 7% list milk. Another 24% carry a “may contain” line for milk. Most list cocoa and cocoa powder.
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Not for you
for a soy allergy profile, on 11% of these packs
Which allergens are in cocoa powders?
Of 653 packs of cocoa powders whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 11% list soy, 7% list milk, 7% list gluten and 3% list tree nuts. Another 24% carry a “may contain” line for milk, 16% for soy and 12% for gluten. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.
Not for you when most of these packs list the allergen, Heads up when fewer do or only a “may contain” line names it. In the app, a profile gets Not for you on a pack that lists the allergen and Heads up on one whose “may contain” line names it: it reads the pack in your hand, not these counts.
What are cocoa powders usually made of?
The ingredients most packs of cocoa powders list, with the share of packs that list each: cocoa (98%), cocoa powder (70%), sugar (34%) and e501 potassium carbonates (24%).
Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 484 · Spain 314 · Germany 210 · United States 112.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows what these packs list, not every recipe for cocoa powders.
Calories and nutrients
Not shown here. Open Food Facts records calories and nutrients per 100 g or per 100 ml without saying which, so a figure for all these packs together could mislead. The pack you buy prints its own, and that is the figure to log.
What kind of food are cocoa powders?
In the Open Food Facts categories, cocoa powders are a kind of cocoa and chocolate powders.
What else are cocoa powders called?
- French
- Cacaos en poudre, cacao en poudre
- German
- Kakaopulver, Kakao
- Spanish
- Cacaos en polvo, cacao en polvo
- Italian
- Cacao in polvere
- Dutch
- Cacaopoeders, Cacaopoeder
- Portuguese
- Cacau em pó
- Polish
- Kakao w proszku
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Sources
Every share is counted over the packs whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full. A pack lists an allergen when Open Food Facts’ allergen field names it, or when one of its ingredients stands for it by the same two-of-three checks as the ingredient dictionary (tahini is sesame, a cheese is milk). A “may contain” line counts only for an allergen the pack does not list.
- Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
- Open Food Facts: categories and ingredients taxonomies (names, kinds, allergens), ODbL
- Open Food Facts: Cocoa powders
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