Grated Cheese
Grated Cheese appears in 47 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
Grated Cheese appears in 47 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.
- 47
- catalogued products
- #5,176
- usage rank of 247,206
- 15
- named brands represented
- 51%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Grated Cheese - usage rank #5,176
- Usage rank
- #5,176
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 83 others that also appear in exactly 47 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 51%
- Mean relative depth 51% across 47 parsed labels, slot 13.7 on average. Grated Cheese tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 2.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Grated Cheese spans 15 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Authentic Italian Porcini & Truffle Cappellacci; Basil Pesto; Cheese ravioli when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
15 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 40 of 47 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.
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 Grated Cheese
Products Containing Grated Cheese
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 47 indexed products containing Grated Cheese:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Grated Cheese: 47 listings averaging 99.9/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Grated Cheese evidence
47 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Grated Cheese are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Grated Cheese to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s 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.
Grated Cheese — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Grated Cheese? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Grated Cheese, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,176 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Grated Cheese? ▼
Grated Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,176 of 247,206), appearing in 47 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Grated Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Grated Cheese appears in 47 products (#5,176 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Grated 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.