Dark chocolate sea salt caramels
Dark chocolate sea salt caramels by Private Selection has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
How This Score Is Built
Dark chocolate sea salt caramels draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Dark chocolate sea salt caramels sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
caramel (corn syrup, sweetened condensed milk, heavy cream, butter, brown sugar, invert sugar, sugar, vanilla extract, salt, soy lecithin), dark chocolate (chocolate liquor, sugar, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, vanilla flavor), sea salt. contains: milk, soy, may contain: peanuts. almonds. cashews.
Product Details
- Brand
- Private Selection
- Barcode
- 0041260015335
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Dark chocolate sea salt caramels above or below average on ingredient safety?
Dark chocolate sea salt caramels scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4/5 rating on Dark chocolate sea salt caramels?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Dark chocolate sea salt caramels's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, which is the Low Risk tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.