Aged Cheddar Cheese
Aged Cheddar Cheese appears in 133 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Aged Cheddar Cheese appears in 133 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 133
- catalogued products
- #2,564
- usage rank of 247,206
- 50
- named brands represented
- 28%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 40 of 133 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Aged Cheddar Smashed Potatoes; Aged White Cheddar; Aged White Cheddar Corn Puffs to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Aged Cheddar Cheese itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Dairies supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
40 of 133 linked records have some flagged component
All 132 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 50–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Aged Cheddar Cheese sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,564 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,564
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 133 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 28%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 133 products listing it (mean slot 12.9). Aged Cheddar Cheese usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Aged Cheddar Cheese
Across the 133 products on this site that list Aged Cheddar Cheese, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Yellow 6 shows up about 3.5x more often with Aged Cheddar Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Aged Cheddar Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 6 | 16 | 12% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 10 | 7.5% | 4.8% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 7 | 5.3% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 7 | 5.3% | 4.5% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Aged Cheddar Cheese
Products Containing Aged Cheddar Cheese
High-volume slice (16 of 133) for products naming Aged Cheddar Cheese:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “100% Arabica Coffee”)
Top-decile company for Aged Cheddar Cheese: 133 listings averaging 93.1/100. Nearest count peers include “100% Arabica Coffee”, “Butter Fat”, “Organic Coconut Aminos”.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Aged Cheddar Cheese evidence
133 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Aged Cheddar Cheese are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Aged Cheddar Cheese and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Aged Cheddar Cheese with a peer such as “100% Arabica Coffee” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Aged Cheddar Cheese carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Aged Cheddar Cheese. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Aged Cheddar Cheese? ▼
Aged Cheddar Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,564 of 247,206), appearing in 133 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Aged Cheddar Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Aged Cheddar Cheese appears in 133 products (#2,564 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Aged Cheddar Cheese). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.