Special Dark - Mildly Sweet Chocolate (Giant Bar)
Special Dark - Mildly Sweet Chocolate (Giant Bar) by Hershey's 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. 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 / Chocolates / Dark chocolates
How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 1 of 1 ingredient tracked for Special Dark - Mildly Sweet Chocolate (Giant Bar) has a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Special Dark - Mildly Sweet Chocolate (Giant Bar) 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; CHOCOLATE; COCOA BUTTER; COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI; MILK FAT; LECITHIN (SOY); PGPR; NATURAL FLAVOR; MILK.
Product Details
- Brand
- Hershey's
- Barcode
- 0034000195282
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- France,United Kingdom,United States
- Stores
- Safeway
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Frequently asked questions
How does Special Dark - Mildly Sweet Chocolate (Giant Bar)'s safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Special Dark - Mildly Sweet Chocolate (Giant Bar)'s 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Special Dark - Mildly Sweet Chocolate (Giant Bar)'s 4/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Special Dark - Mildly Sweet Chocolate (Giant Bar)'s 4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.