# Dandelion Chocolate Chai Hot Chocolate Mix - Large — TilliT proof check

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## Product

- **Brand:** Dandelion Chocolate
- **Product:** Chai Hot Chocolate Mix - Large
- **Sold at:** dandelionchocolate.com
- **Product page:** https://dandelionchocolate.com/products/chai-hot-chocolate-mix-large
- **Assessment ID:** pta_c2dab44702ab46eaade30562ac4da791
- **Assessed:** 2026-11-03
- **Last reviewed:** n/a
- **Review mode:** Not final · review pending  
  ⚠️ At least one claim here is **preliminary** — a person is still reviewing it; see the per-claim status.
- **Methodology version:** 2026.10.4
- **Canonical page:** https://tillit.world/p/pta_c2dab44702ab46eaade30562ac4da791

## Overall (safe to quote)

Chai Hot Chocolate Mix - Large by Dandelion Chocolate — public trust assessment of 3 observed badge claim(s): Vegan: Limited Public Support; Gluten-Free: Limited Public Support; Allergen-Free: Limited Public Support. These statuses reflect publicly available evidence only, not a review of the seller's own certificates or documents.

## Claims checked

### Gluten-Free

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 14/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Shelf life: 2 years from factory production date vegan gluten free nut free peanut free dairy free Chai Hot Chocolate”
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page publicly displays a gluten-free claim, and FDA's rule (21 CFR 101.91) allows this voluntary claim without third-party certification, provided the product meets the under-20-ppm definition. No independent product-level testing or GFCO certification for this product was retrieved in the sources checked, so public evidence does not independently confirm the claim. For medical use, rely on the current package and your clinician's guidance.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-12-03
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks.
- **Limitation:** Self-review note: Only GFCO's registry was checked; no other major gluten-free certifier registries (e.g. CSA, NCA, Coeliac UK, GIG, NSF, SCS) were searched for 'Dandelion Chocolate', leaving a realistic public path to a certifier match untried.

### Allergen-Free

- **Status:** Preliminary — a person is still reviewing this (`preliminary`)
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Claims free of: soy free”
- **Safe citation wording:** Preliminary — awaiting TilliT review: Public evidence includes a product-page statement that the item claims to be free of soy, and US law recognizes nine major allergens without a single regulatory definition for "allergen-free," so such claims must be scoped to specific allergens. Batch-specific public evidence and allergen or ingredient information for this product were not retrieved in this assessment. This wording describes what the available public evidence states and does not represent third-party certification or independent verification of the claim.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-26
- **Limitation:** This is a claim about specific allergens (soy-free), not a blanket allergen-free claim — it says nothing about allergens it does not name.
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 8 checks.

### Vegan

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 39/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Shelf life: 2 years from factory production date vegan gluten free nut free peanut free dairy free Chai Hot”
- **Certifier named:** Vegan Action
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Vegan claim with limited public support. Specifically, a certifier lists this brand as certified, but not this specific product, and 1 independent organisation published evidence relevant to this claim. Public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, product-level. Batch-specific public evidence was not retrieved in this assessment. This claim can legally be self-declared in the US, with no required independent testing. Vegan Action's standard: Explicitly allows trace cross-contamination where shared-equipment cleaning steps are followed, to avoid excluding otherwise animal-free products.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-12-03
- **Limitation:** Generic certifier-directory search skipped: a structured Vegan Action match already resolved this badge with higher confidence than a text-directory probe could add.
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 6 checks.

## Not claimed on this page

Organic, Non-GMO, Fair Trade.

## Machine-readable versions

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## How to cite this

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_Generated 2026-11-03T15:28:18+00:00 from assessment pta_c2dab44702ab46eaade30562ac4da791._