Brie Cheese
Brie Cheese appears in 44 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
Brie Cheese appears in 44 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.
- 44
- catalogued products
- #5,420
- usage rank of 247,206
- 17
- named brands represented
- 20%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Brie Cheese - usage rank #5,420
- Usage rank
- #5,420
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 86 others that also appear in exactly 44 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 20%
- Mean relative depth 20% across 44 parsed labels, slot 7.9 on average. Brie Cheese tends to sit near the top of the captured 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Brie Cheese spans 17 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with Baby brie bites, raspberry chipotle; Baked Brie; Baked Brie when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
17 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 40 of 44 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.
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 Brie Cheese
Products Containing Brie Cheese
16 busy labels from the 44 indexed products that list Brie Cheese:
Brie Cheese vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Brie Cheese sits among other busy catalog rows (44 products, mean score 98.1/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Brie Cheese record
Start from Brie Cheese's 44 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Brie Cheese before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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 Brie Cheese? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Brie Cheese, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,420 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Brie Cheese? ▼
Brie Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,420 of 247,206), appearing in 44 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Brie Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Brie Cheese appears in 44 products (#5,420 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Brie 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.