Imitation Mozzarella Cheese
Imitation Mozzarella Cheese appears in 234 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
Imitation Mozzarella Cheese appears in 234 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.
- 234
- catalogued products
- #1,768
- usage rank of 247,206
- 28
- named brands represented
- 44%
- 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
97.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Imitation Mozzarella Cheese as the trigger. Open records such as 3 meat sausage pepperoni & ham pizza, 3 meat; Better Valu, Individual Hamburger Pizza; Buffalo Ranch Blasted Crust Chicken Rolls and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 51.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 44% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
97.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 234 of 234 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.
Imitation Mozzarella Cheese: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,768 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,768
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 234 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 44%
- Mean relative depth 44% across 234 parsed labels, slot 31.7 on average. Imitation Mozzarella Cheese tends to sit in the upper 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 else is usually in the same product as Imitation Mozzarella Cheese
Across the 234 products on this site that list Imitation Mozzarella 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 29x more often with Imitation Mozzarella Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Imitation Mozzarella Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 163 | 69.7% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 145 | 62% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 145 | 62% | 1.1% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 128 | 54.7% | 2.1% |
| TBHQ | 117 | 50% | 0.5% |
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 Imitation Mozzarella Cheese
Products Containing Imitation Mozzarella Cheese
High-volume slice (16 of 234) for products naming Imitation Mozzarella Cheese:
High-volume peers for Imitation Mozzarella Cheese beside “Chicken White Meat”
Imitation Mozzarella Cheese sits among other busy catalog rows (234 products, mean score 51/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Chicken White Meat; Chocolate Coating; Disodium Inosinate & Disodium Guanylate. 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 Imitation Mozzarella Cheese record
Start from Imitation Mozzarella Cheese's 234 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Imitation Mozzarella 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. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Imitation Mozzarella Cheese
How should I read safety signals when Imitation Mozzarella Cheese sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
97.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Imitation Mozzarella Cheese is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Imitation Mozzarella Cheese? ▼
Imitation Mozzarella Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,768 of 247,206), appearing in 234 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Imitation Mozzarella Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Imitation Mozzarella Cheese appears in 234 products (#1,768 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Imitation Mozzarella 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.