# Breakfast cocoa — What a food must legally contain to use its name: FDA standards of identity, in one table

For Breakfast cocoa, cfr section is 21 CFR 163.112; category (cfr part) is Cacao Products; composition requirements is Breakfast cocoa contains not less than 22 percent by weight of cacao fat, recorded from its source on 2026-08-11.

- **CFR section:** 21 CFR 163.112 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Standardized food:** Breakfast cocoa _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Category (CFR part):** Cacao Products _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Composition requirements:** Breakfast cocoa contains not less than 22 percent by weight of cacao fat _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> § 163.112 Breakfast cocoa. ( a ) Description. ( 1 ) Breakfast cocoa is the food prepared by pulverizing the material remaining after part of the cacao fat has been removed from ground cacao nibs. Breakfast cocoa contains not less than 22 percent by weight of cacao fat

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-163

Last verified: 2026-08-11. Review by: 2027-08-11.
Part of [What a food must legally contain to use its name: FDA standards of identity, in one table](https://referencesource.org/food-standards-of-identity/).