Granular Cheese
Granular Cheese appears in 73 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
Granular Cheese appears in 73 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.
- 73
- catalogued products
- #3,864
- usage rank of 247,206
- 26
- named brands represented
- 57%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
50.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Granular Cheese as the trigger. Open records such as Bean And Cheese Chimichanga; Bistro Santa Fe Style; Bordello Bistro and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 89.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 57% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
50.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 73 of 73 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.
High-volume listing for Granular Cheese - usage rank #3,864
- Usage rank
- #3,864
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 32 others that also appear in exactly 73 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 57%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 73 products listing it (mean slot 34.1). Granular Cheese usually falls in the lower 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Granular Cheese
Across the 73 products on this site that list Granular Cheese, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 3.8x more often with Granular Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Granular Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 16 | 21.9% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 13 | 17.8% | 4.5% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 11 | 15.1% | 2.1% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 6 | 8.2% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 5 | 6.8% | 4.8% |
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 Granular Cheese
Products Containing Granular Cheese
High-volume slice (16 of 73) for products naming Granular Cheese:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Added To Retain Freshness”)
Granular Cheese sits among other busy catalog rows (73 products, mean score 89.7/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Added To Retain Freshness · Anti Caking Agent · Chiles. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Granular Cheese page
73 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Granular Cheese are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Granular Cheese before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Granular Cheese
How should I read safety signals when Granular Cheese sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
50.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Granular Cheese is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Granular Cheese? ▼
Granular Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,864 of 247,206), appearing in 73 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Granular Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Granular Cheese appears in 73 products (#3,864 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Granular Cheese). 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.