Hot Cocoa Drink Mix
Hot Cocoa Drink Mix by Safeway Select, Safeway Inc. has 2 tracked ingredients, 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
Beverages / Dried products / Dried products to be rehydrated / Dehydrated beverages
How This Score Is Built
Hot Cocoa Drink Mix 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). 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients are 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 Hot Cocoa Drink Mix 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
Sugar, corn syrup solids, cocoa (processed with alkali), coconut oil, nonfat dry milk, salt, contains less than 2% of maltodextrin, sodium caseinate, natural & artificial flavor, mono - and diglycerides, dipotassium phosphate, sucralose.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0021130450954
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Hot Cocoa Drink Mix's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Hot Cocoa Drink Mix's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4/5 rating on Hot Cocoa Drink Mix?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Hot Cocoa Drink Mix'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.