Cheeses
Cheeses appears in 309 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
Cheeses appears in 309 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.
- 309
- catalogued products
- #1,463
- usage rank of 247,206
- 70
- named brands represented
- 40%
- 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: 144 of 309 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 4 Cheese Blend Rising Crust Pizza; Artisan Style Crust Pizza - Salami & Basil Pesto; Asiago Focaccia to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to 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.
144 of 309 linked records have some flagged component
All 308 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.
High-volume listing for Cheeses - usage rank #1,463
- Usage rank
- #1,463
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 309 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 40%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 309 products listing it (mean slot 19.7). 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Cheeses
Across the 309 products on this site that list Cheeses, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 12.3x more often with Cheeses than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cheeses products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 91 | 29.4% | 2.4% |
| BHT | 80 | 25.9% | 1.1% |
| BHA | 78 | 25.2% | 0.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 43 | 13.9% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 30 | 9.7% | 4.5% |
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 Cheeses
Products Containing Cheeses
16 busy labels from the 309 indexed products that list Cheeses:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Bacillus Coagulans Gbi-30 6086”)
Cheeses sits among other busy catalog rows (309 products, mean score 84.4/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Bacillus Coagulans Gbi-30 6086 · Light Tuna · Potassium Benzoate And Potassium Sorbate. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Using the Cheeses evidence
Start from Cheeses's 309 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Cheeses and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Cheeses
Does 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 Cheeses. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cheeses? ▼
Cheeses ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,463 of 247,206), appearing in 309 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cheeses so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cheeses appears in 309 products (#1,463 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (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.