Cheddar Cheese Sauce
Cheddar Cheese Sauce appears in 100 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 Cheese Sauce appears in 100 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.
- 100
- catalogued products
- #3,132
- usage rank of 247,206
- 57
- named brands represented
- 32%
- 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.
Cheddar Cheese Sauce sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,132 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,132
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 20 others that also appear in exactly 100 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 32%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 100 products listing it (mean slot 12.2). Cheddar Cheese Sauce 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 to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cheddar Cheese Sauce spans 57 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with Battered Cheddar Nuggets; Breakfast burritos; Broccoli Chicken when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
57 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 98 of 99 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 Cheddar Cheese Sauce
Across the 100 products on this site that list Cheddar Cheese Sauce, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cheddar Cheese Sauce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 6% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 6 | 5 | 5% | 3.4% |
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 Cheddar Cheese Sauce
Products Containing Cheddar Cheese Sauce
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 100 indexed products containing Cheddar Cheese Sauce:
Cheddar Cheese Sauce vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Cheddar Cheese Sauce: 100 listings averaging 96.7/100. Nearest count peers include “Annatto And Turmeric Color”, “Cherry Tomatoes”, “Chicken Raised Without Antibiotics”.
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 Cheddar Cheese Sauce record
Use the 100-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Cheddar Cheese Sauce before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Cheddar Cheese Sauce with a peer such as “Annatto And Turmeric Color” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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 Cheddar Cheese Sauce
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cheddar Cheese Sauce? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cheddar Cheese Sauce, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,132 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cheddar Cheese Sauce? ▼
Cheddar Cheese Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,132 of 247,206), appearing in 100 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cheddar Cheese Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cheddar Cheese Sauce appears in 100 products (#3,132 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cheddar Cheese Sauce). 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.