Light & dark chocolates
Light & dark chocolates by Esther Price Candies Corp. 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. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Sweet snacks / Cocoa and its products / Confectioneries / Chocolate candies / Bonbons / Assorted chocolate candies
How This Score Is Built
Light & dark chocolates 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 Light & dark chocolates 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
Milk and dark chocolate: (sugar, milk, chocolate processed with alkali, cocoa butter, milkfat, soy lecithin an emulsifier, vanillin an artificial flavor, natural flavors), sugar, corn syrup, cream, evaporated milk, butter, brown sugar, cocoa processed with alkali, coconut: (coconut, sugar, propylene glycol, salt, sulfites), nuts: (pecans, almonds, cashews), peanut butter: [peanuts, dextrose, hydrogenated vegetable oil (rapeseed & cottonseed oils), salt], cherries: (cherries, sugar, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate to preserve freshness, fd&c red # 40, sulfites), peanut oil, canola oil, invertase (an enzyme), molasses, artificial flavor, lemon juice, lemon oil, salt.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0014452001003
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Light & dark chocolates rank on ingredient safety?
Light & dark chocolates 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 Light & dark chocolates?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 4/5 average places Light & dark chocolates in 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.