Cheddar & Blue Cheeses

Cheddar & Blue Cheeses appears in 4 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

Cheddar & Blue Cheeses appears in 4 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.

4
catalogued products
#28,812
usage rank of 247,206
2
named brands represented
45%
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: 1 of 4 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Cheeseburger Macoroni; Double Cheeseburger Macaroni; Hamburger Helper Bacon Cheeseburger to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Cheddar & Blue Cheeses itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

1 of 4 linked records have some flagged component

All 4 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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.

Cheddar & Blue Cheeses: above-median product count (beats 88.3% of ranked ingredients)

Usage rank
#28,812
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6,278 others that also appear in exactly 4 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
45%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 4 products listing it (mean slot 16.8). Cheddar & Blue Cheeses 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.

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.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 4 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 Cheddar & Blue Cheeses

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 4 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 20406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cheddar & Blue Cheeses Cheeseburger MacoroniDouble Cheeseburger MacaroniHamburger Helper Bacon CheeseburgerPotato Chips
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Products Containing Cheddar & Blue Cheeses

Full indexed set for Cheddar & Blue Cheeses — 4 products:

Download these 4 product rows (CSV) 4 rows PlainFoodSafe selection: CC BY 4.0. Underlying Open Food Facts data: ODbL 1.0.

Count-or-score neighbours for Cheddar & Blue Cheeses

Cheddar & Blue Cheeses comparison set — 4 products, mean 81.3/100.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Cheddar & Blue Cheeses evidence

Use the 4-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Cheddar & Blue Cheeses and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Cheddar & Blue Cheeses — common follow-ups

Does Cheddar & Blue Cheeses 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 Cheddar & Blue Cheeses. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Where does Cheddar & Blue Cheeses show up across the catalog?

Cheddar & Blue Cheeses sits above the median for catalog prevalence (4 products, #28,812 of 247,206) across 2 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.

Why is Cheddar & Blue Cheeses so common on ingredient lists?

The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Cheddar & Blue Cheeses. Its in the upper half of the list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cheddar & Blue Cheeses). 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.