Grated Parmesan Cheese
Grated Parmesan Cheese appears in 190 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 Parmesan Cheese appears in 190 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.
- 190
- catalogued products
- #2,008
- usage rank of 247,206
- 64
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 65 of 190 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% vegetable pasta, fettuccine alfredo; 4 cheese garlic bread; 5 Cheese Pizza to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Grated Parmesan Cheese itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
65 of 190 linked records have some flagged component
All 187 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.
Grated Parmesan Cheese: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,008 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,008
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 190 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 58%
- Averaged label depth puts Grated Parmesan Cheese in the lower half of the list (58% of list length, mean slot 25.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Grated Parmesan Cheese
Across the 190 products on this site that list Grated Parmesan 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 6.1x more often with Grated Parmesan Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Grated Parmesan Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 28 | 14.7% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 23 | 12.1% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 23 | 12.1% | 1.1% |
| Carrageenan | 19 | 10% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 18 | 9.5% | 5.7% |
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 Grated Parmesan Cheese
Products Containing Grated Parmesan Cheese
16 busy labels from the 190 indexed products that list Grated Parmesan Cheese:
High-volume peers for Grated Parmesan Cheese beside “Encapsulated Citric Acid”
Top-decile company for Grated Parmesan Cheese: 190 listings averaging 91.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Encapsulated Citric Acid”, “Low Fat Milk”, “Mct Oil”.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Grated Parmesan Cheese evidence
190 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Grated Parmesan Cheese are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Grated Parmesan Cheese to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Grated Parmesan Cheese with a peer such as “Encapsulated Citric Acid” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Grated Parmesan Cheese
Does Grated Parmesan Cheese 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 Grated Parmesan Cheese. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Grated Parmesan Cheese? ▼
Grated Parmesan Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,008 of 247,206), appearing in 190 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Grated Parmesan Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Grated Parmesan Cheese appears in 190 products (#2,008 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Grated Parmesan 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.