Blue Cheese
Blue Cheese appears in 1,053 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
Blue Cheese appears in 1,053 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.
- 1,053
- catalogued products
- #639
- usage rank of 247,206
- 277
- named brands represented
- 55%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 426 of 1053 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% durum wheat semolina pasta; 2nd Story Bake Shop, Buckwheat Blue Cheese; 3 Cheese Mac & Cheese Dinner to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Blue Cheese itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
426 of 1,053 linked records have some flagged component
All 1048 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
Blue Cheese sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#639 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #639
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 1,053 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 55%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,053 products listing it (mean slot 24.2). Blue Cheese usually falls in the lower 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 Blue Cheese
Across the 1,053 products on this site that list Blue 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 5.1x more often with Blue Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Blue Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 6 | 183 | 17.4% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 180 | 17.1% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 104 | 9.9% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 69 | 6.6% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 66 | 6.3% | 2.4% |
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 Blue Cheese
Products Containing Blue Cheese
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,053 indexed products containing Blue Cheese:
High-volume peers for Blue Cheese beside “Dijon Mustard”
High-volume peers for Blue Cheese: 1,053 products, mean screening score 84.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Dijon Mustard · Tapioca · Rye Flour. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Blue Cheese record
Use the 1,053-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Blue Cheese and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Blue Cheese next to “Tapioca” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Blue Cheese
Does Blue 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 Blue Cheese. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Blue Cheese? ▼
Blue Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#639 of 247,206), appearing in 1,053 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Blue Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Blue Cheese appears in 1,053 products (#639 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Blue 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.