USDA ingredient referenceUpdated August 22, 2026

Candies, semisweet chocolate in 7 Feast-indexed USDA foods

Within Feast’s 3,850-record USDA FNDDS reference corpus, “Candies, semisweet chocolate” appears as a formulation input in 7 finished-food records. Their calories and nutrients describe those complete foods, not the input label by itself. Use the catalog to choose the closest finished food and open its exact FoodData Central citation.

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Exact nutrition reference, complete food catalog and source methodology

This page helps you find complete foods that include Candies, semisweet chocolate in USDA’s nutrition data. Choose the record that most closely matches what you ate; Feast does not turn a collection average into a standalone ingredient estimate.

What the code means

One exact source label across 7 complete records.

Every occurrence collected here uses ingredient code 19080 and the source description “Candies, semisweet chocolate.” The code is preserved exactly as it appears in the FNDDS input-food rows. It is not a FoodData Central FDC ID, so this page does not invent a standalone ingredient-record URL.

The strongest concentrations of linked records are currently Cookies and brownies (4), Cakes and pies (2), Biscuits, muffins, quick breads (1). These are category counts within Feast’s selected 3,850-record corpus. They do not estimate how often the ingredient is eaten, how common it is in recipes generally, or its prevalence across every FNDDS release.

Collection-level interpretation

Grounded ways to understand this source label

These summaries describe the linked FNDDS records in this exact corpus. They do not estimate consumer frequency, market share, or the composition of a meal.

Typical listed-weight range

20%–31.3%

The middle half of linked records spans 11.3 percentage points from the 25th to the 75th percentile. This is more resistant to a single extreme record than the full minimum-to-maximum range.

Largest linked category

Cookies and brownies

4 of 7 linked records (57%) sit in this USDA category. The remainder span 2 other categories.

Most populated share band

15% to under 30%

5 records (71%) fall in this band after repeated rows for code 19080 are combined within each food.

Most frequent eligible co-input

Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole

It appears alongside code 19080 in 4 linked records (57%). Co-occurrence describes database structure, not a required recipe.

Where USDA uses this input

Linked records by source-food category

Each record is counted once even if ingredient code 19080 appears on more than one input row inside that formulation. The category grouping describes the complete linked foods, not a culinary rule about the ingredient.

USDA survey-food categories

Source-formulation evidence

How the share of listed input weight changes

Repeated rows for code 19080 inside one food are combined before the percentage is calculated. The denominator is the sum of all positive-weight inputs listed for that USDA formulation.

All linked records, not just the extremes

Where the listed-weight shares fall

Each bar counts complete food records after repeated rows for ingredient code 19080 have been combined.

Under 1%0 records
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1% to under 5%0 records
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5% to under 15%0 records
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15% to under 30%5 records
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30% to under 60%2 records
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60% to 100%0 records
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The role changes by food type

Median listed share in the largest USDA categories

Category medians summarize source-formulation shares, not nutrient content or consumption frequency.

Listed-weight share distribution across the largest complete-food categories
Complete-food category	Records	Median	Middle 50%	Observed span
Cookies and brownies	4	22.6%	20.8%–23.7%	18.6%–23.7%
Cakes and pies	2	38.9%	38.9%–38.9%	38.9%–38.9%

What the spread can tell you

In this collection, “Candies, semisweet chocolate” ranges from 15.2% to 38.9% of listed source-input weight, with a median of 23.7%. That variation can help distinguish a food where the input is a small supporting component from a record where it makes up much more of the standardized source formulation.

The spread remains descriptive. It does not show uncertainty around a single recipe, and a high source-weight share does not automatically mean the food supplies more of any particular nutrient. To compare nutrients, use the complete linked records below.

Important nutrition boundary

This collection does not support a verified standalone nutrition answer for “Candies, semisweet chocolate.”

No unique exact food-code match or reviewed sole-source bridge qualifies for a direct consumer answer. Feast therefore does not treat the collection median, minimum, maximum, or an arbitrary similar record as the nutrition of this input.

The table below describes the complete linked foods per 100 grams. Use it to find a closer finished-food record, not to infer what this formulation input supplies on its own.

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Nutrient span across the linked foods

Every value in this table describes an entire USDA survey-food record per 100 grams. The values are not the nutrient content of ingredient code 19080, and differences cannot be attributed to this one input.

Nutrient span across complete food records linked to this source ingredient code
Whole-record nutrient	Observed minimum	Middle 50%	Median	Observed maximum	Linked records
Caloriesper 100 g of the complete food	402 kcal	410–490 kcal	457 kcal	515 kcal	7
Proteinper 100 g of the complete food	4.9 g	5–5.8 g	5.7 g	7.8 g	7
Carbohydrateper 100 g of the complete food	37.9 g	46.7–61.1 g	59.2 g	67.6 g	7
Total fatper 100 g of the complete food	19 g	23.1–29.2 g	28.3 g	29.4 g	7
Dietary fiberper 100 g of the complete food	1.8 g	2.3–2.8 g	2.4 g	3.5 g	7
Sodiumper 100 g of the complete food	119 mg	190–331 mg	283 mg	399 mg	7

The minimum and maximum preserve the complete observed span. The median is the middle linked-record value, not a prediction for a meal and not an ingredient-specific nutrient estimate.

Complete linked catalog

All 7 Feast-indexed food records that list code 19080

This is the complete qualifying-corpus catalog, not a hand-picked sample. Search by food name or USDA category, then open a profile for household portions, Feast’s 21-nutrient panel, formulation details, and its exact FDC citation.

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7 records shown

Complete USDA food-record catalog linked to this source ingredient code
Linked USDA food record	USDA category	Formulation	Listed input weight	Weight share	Calories	Protein	Sodium	Citation
Cake or cupcake, gluten free	Cakes and pies	6 input rows	39 g	38.9%	410 kcal	4.9 g	119 mg	FDC 2707870 ↗
Cake, chocolate, flourless	Cakes and pies	6 input rows	39 g	38.9%	410 kcal	4.9 g	119 mg	FDC 2707871 ↗
Cookie, chocolate chip, made from home recipe or purchased at a bakery	Cookies and brownies	10 input rows	168 g	21.5%	505 kcal	5.8 g	261 mg	FDC 2707910 ↗
Cookie, oatmeal, with chocolate chips	Cookies and brownies	2 input rows	168 g	23.7%	457 kcal	5.7 g	399 mg	FDC 2707949 ↗
Cookie, peanut butter, with chocolate	Cookies and brownies	2 input rows	168 g	23.7%	475 kcal	7.8 g	356 mg	FDC 2707953 ↗
Cookie, shortbread, with icing or filling	Cookies and brownies	3 input rows	168 g	18.6%	515 kcal	5.1 g	283 mg	FDC 2707966 ↗
Muffin, chocolate chip	Biscuits, muffins, quick breads	10 input rows	168 g	15.2%	402 kcal	5.8 g	306 mg	FDC 2707832 ↗

Decision support from the exact records on this page

Turn source data into a better next decision

These conclusions and reading paths are computed from 7 exact records behind Candies, semisweet chocolate (USDA input 19080). Links are chosen by record identity, controlled contrast, formulation input, nutrient spread, or serving context—not by loose keyword similarity.

Equal-weight result

Muffin, chocolate chip is higher in calcium per 100 g

Muffin, chocolate chip reports 146 mg versus 16 mg for Cookie, shortbread, with icing or filling: a 130 mg difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Cookie, chocolate chip, made from home recipe or purchased at a bakery is denser; Cake or cupcake, gluten free is higher in its source amount

Cookie, chocolate chip, made from home recipe or purchased at a bakery reports 505 kcal per 100 g and 303 kcal in USDA source amount (60 g). Cake or cupcake, gluten free reports a lower 410 kcal per 100 g but a higher 718 kcal in USDA source amount (175 g).

Record identity is part of the estimate

Distinguish “Cookie, chocolate chip, made from home recipe or purchased at a bakery” from “Cookie, shortbread, with icing or filling”

These are separate USDA records with separate formulations or survey descriptions. Match preparation, additions, and the named household amount before borrowing either record’s nutrients.

Inspect the underlying evidence

Contextual knowledge graph

Follow the relationship that matches your question

For Candies, semisweet chocolate (USDA input 19080), each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.

Best next guide for this exact record Cake or cupcake

Cake or cupcake, gluten free is explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

Follow this evidence path Best next guide for this exact record Cake

Cake, chocolate, flourless is explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Salt, table

USDA input 2047 appears in 4 of 7 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 0.2–3 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Sugars, granulated

USDA input 19335 appears in 4 of 7 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 11–100 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

Follow this evidence path 4 context records in this source topic Cookies and brownies

Cookie, chocolate chip, made from home recipe or purchased at a bakery and Cookie, oatmeal, with chocolate chips belong to this USDA source-category collection. Its displayed ranges and complete exact-record catalog provide the peer set for a manual comparison; the destination does not preselect this page’s record.

Follow this evidence path Test a nearby record choice Cookie, peanut butter, with chocolate vs Cookie, with peanut butter filling, chocolate-coated

Cookie, peanut butter, with chocolate is held as one side of the comparison. The explicit record-description contrast is Coating wording: No matching controlled term in the source name versus coated or breaded; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path Put the observed spread in corpus context Calcium: density and serving context

In this page’s records, calcium runs from 16 mg in Cookie, shortbread, with icing or filling to 146 mg in Muffin, chocolate chip, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path

Method and provenance

How this ingredient-centered page was calculated

Feast begins with its pinned 3,850-record USDA FoodData Central Survey Foods reference corpus for FNDDS 2021–2023. Each exact food profile retains its FDC identifier, source-food description, nutrient values, household measures, and positive-weight input-food rows. This page groups those input rows by the exact ingredient code 19080; it does not merge similar-looking ingredient names or infer synonyms.

The distinct-record count deduplicates by FDC food record. When the same code is listed more than once inside one source formulation, its input weights are added before the listed-weight share is calculated. Category counts also count each food once. The 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile use the sorted one-share-per-food values with linear interpolation between adjacent ranks when a percentile falls between two records.

USDA’s current FNDDS documentation explains that many nutrient profiles are generated with calculation recipes designed to represent multiple variants, and that their input codes are not necessarily the exact ingredients in a retail product or an ingredient declaration. It also documents moisture and nutrient-retention adjustments. Feast therefore treats these rows as transparent source-calculation evidence—not as a reverse-engineered recipe.

The complete-food nutrient table uses each linked record’s available published per-100-gram values so the denominator remains consistent; its middle-50% ranges use the same interpolated percentile method. It is presented for record selection and comparison only. No nutrient value is reassigned to the ingredient, no causal effect is inferred, and no “healthy” score is manufactured from the collection.

How to apply the evidence to a meal

Use the ingredient as a discovery clue. Compare the linked record names, food categories, preparation wording, source formulation, and portion measures. If a close record exists, its complete profile can provide a defensible reference estimate. If the meal differs materially in cooking fat, sauce, ingredient ratios, or portion size, keep looking or use recipe weights, a package label, or an editable photo estimate instead.

These pages are educational source indexes. They do not provide medical advice, personalized nutrient targets, food-safety guidance, or a recipe. If a clinician has given you individualized dietary instructions, follow that guidance and use the most specific current source available for the food you actually consumed.