Asiago
Asiago appears in 98 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
Asiago appears in 98 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.
- 98
- catalogued products
- #3,174
- usage rank of 247,206
- 43
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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.
Asiago: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,174 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,174
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 98 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Mean relative depth 50% across 98 parsed labels, slot 22.4 on average. Asiago tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Asiago spans 43 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with 5 Cheese Bread; 5 cheese bread; 5 Cheese Breadsticks when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
43 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 86 of 98 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Asiago
Across the 98 products on this site that list Asiago, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 3.4x more often with Asiago than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Asiago products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 8 | 8.2% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 8 | 8.2% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 8 | 8.2% | 1.1% |
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 Asiago
Products Containing Asiago
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 98 indexed products containing Asiago:
Asiago vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Asiago: 98 listings averaging 95.6/100. Nearest count peers include “Active Yogurt Cultures With L. Bulgaricus”, “Anti-caking Agents”, “Cellulose Powder Added To Prevent Caking”.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Asiago record
Use the 98-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Asiago to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Asiago with a peer such as “Active Yogurt Cultures With L. Bulgaricus” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Asiago? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Asiago, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,174 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Asiago? ▼
Asiago ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,174 of 247,206), appearing in 98 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Asiago so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Asiago appears in 98 products (#3,174 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Asiago). 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.