Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce

Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce appears in 1 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

Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce appears in 1 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.

1
catalogued products
#71,300
usage rank of 247,206
0
named brands represented
43%
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.

How to use this page

Audit the co-occurring flags first

100% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce as the trigger. Open records such as Gluten free stuffed sandwiches and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 85.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 43% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

100% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1 of 1 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

Upper-half catalog placement for Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce (#71,300)

Usage rank
#71,300
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 175,906 others that also appear in exactly 1 product.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
43%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1 product listing it (mean slot 29.0). Extra Sharp 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.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

Products Containing Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce

Full indexed set for Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce — 1 product:

Download these 1 product rows (CSV) 1 rows PlainFoodSafe selection: CC BY 4.0. Underlying Open Food Facts data: ODbL 1.0.

Nationwide peers near this flagged-ingredient footprint

Co-flag rate 100% makes peer triage useful: Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce covers 1 products (mean 85/100).

Similar mean product score

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

Next steps from the Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce page

Use the 1-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce 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
  • 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.

Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce sits in heavily flagged products?

100% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Where does Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce show up across the catalog?

Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce sits above the median for catalog prevalence (1 products, #71,300 of 247,206). Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.

Why is Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce so common on ingredient lists?

The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Extra Sharp Cheese Sauce. Its in the upper half of the list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Extra Sharp 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.