Cheese Filling
Cheese Filling appears in 24 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
Cheese Filling appears in 24 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.
- 24
- catalogued products
- #8,251
- usage rank of 247,206
- 9
- named brands represented
- 44%
- 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: 8 of 24 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Cheese Enchilada Fiesta; Cheese Enchiladas Fiesta Topped With Beef Sauce On A Bed Of Mexican Style Rice, Enchilada Fiesta; Cheese lasagna to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 45–100 score range to Cheese Filling itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
8 of 24 linked records have some flagged component
All 23 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 45–100 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.
High-volume listing for Cheese Filling - usage rank #8,251
- Usage rank
- #8,251
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 260 others that also appear in exactly 24 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 44%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 24 products listing it (mean slot 17.7). Cheese Filling 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.
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.
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 Cheese Filling
Products Containing Cheese Filling
16 busy labels from the 24 indexed products that list Cheese Filling:
High-volume peers for Cheese Filling
High-volume peers for Cheese Filling: 24 products, mean screening score 91/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Cheese Filling page
Use the 24-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 Cheese Filling to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- 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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Cheese Filling 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 Cheese Filling. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cheese Filling? ▼
Cheese Filling ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,251 of 247,206), appearing in 24 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cheese Filling so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cheese Filling appears in 24 products (#8,251 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cheese Filling). 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.