Gruyere Cheese
Gruyere Cheese appears in 72 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
Gruyere Cheese appears in 72 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.
- 72
- catalogued products
- #3,897
- usage rank of 247,206
- 28
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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: 25 of 72 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Ahold, simply enjoy, roasted red onion & gruyere gourmet dip; Alfredo sauce; Asparagus & gruyere ravioli to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Gruyere Cheese 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.
25 of 72 linked records have some flagged component
All 68 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 50–100 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.
Gruyere Cheese sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,897 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,897
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 39 others that also appear in exactly 72 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 49%
- Averaged label depth puts Gruyere Cheese in the upper half of the list (49% of list length, mean slot 21.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 else is usually in the same product as Gruyere Cheese
Across the 72 products on this site that list Gruyere 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 10.4x more often with Gruyere Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Gruyere Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 18 | 25% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 17 | 23.6% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 17 | 23.6% | 1.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 7 | 9.7% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 6 | 8.3% | 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 Gruyere Cheese
Products Containing Gruyere Cheese
16 busy labels from the 72 indexed products that list Gruyere Cheese:
Gruyere Cheese vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Gruyere Cheese sits among other busy catalog rows (72 products, mean score 88.2/100). Nearest count peers include “Added To Retain Moisture”, “Almond Oil”, “Natural Banana Flavoring”. 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.
What to do with this Gruyere Cheese record
Use the 72-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Gruyere Cheese before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Gruyere Cheese with a peer such as “Added To Retain Moisture” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- 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.
Gruyere Cheese — common follow-ups
Does Gruyere 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 Gruyere Cheese. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Gruyere Cheese? ▼
Gruyere Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,897 of 247,206), appearing in 72 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Gruyere Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Gruyere Cheese appears in 72 products (#3,897 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Gruyere 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.