Imported Romano Cheese

Imported Romano Cheese appears in 71 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

Imported Romano Cheese appears in 71 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.

71
catalogued products
#3,937
usage rank of 247,206
20
named brands represented
63%
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

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 21 of 71 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Baked ziti & meatballs; Broccoli Rabe Ravioli; Cheese Pizza to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 35–100 score range to Imported Romano Cheese itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

21 of 71 linked records have some flagged component

All 69 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 35–100 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.

Imported Romano Cheese sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,937 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#3,937
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 32 others that also appear in exactly 71 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
63%
Mean relative depth 63% across 71 parsed labels, slot 25.6 on average. Imported Romano 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 else is usually in the same product as Imported Romano Cheese

Across the 71 products on this site that list Imported Romano 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 6.5x more often with Imported Romano Cheese than in the catalogue at large.

Sodium Nitrite: +13.1ppSodium Nitrite+13.1ppBHA: +14.8ppBHA+14.8ppBHT: +14.4ppBHT+14.4ppCaramel Coloring: +9.8ppCaramel Coloring+9.8ppCarrageenan: +2.5ppCarrageenan+2.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Imported Romano Cheese products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Sodium Nitrite
13.1pp
BHA
14.8pp
BHT
14.4pp
Caramel Coloring
9.8pp
Carrageenan
2.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Imported Romano Cheese products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 11 15.5% 2.4%
BHA 11 15.5% 0.7%
BHT 11 15.5% 1.1%
Caramel Coloring 11 15.5% 5.7%
Carrageenan 5 7% 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 Imported Romano Cheese

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 5060708090100110 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Imported Romano Cheese
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Imported Romano Cheese vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Imported Romano Cheese: 71 listings averaging 90.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: 2% Or Less Of Sugar · All Purpose Flour · Organic Baker's Yeast Extract.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Next steps from the Imported Romano Cheese page

71 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Imported Romano Cheese are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Imported Romano Cheese to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
  • 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.

Imported Romano Cheese — common follow-ups

Does Imported Romano 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 Imported Romano Cheese. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Imported Romano Cheese?

Imported Romano Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,937 of 247,206), appearing in 71 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Imported Romano Cheese so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Imported Romano Cheese appears in 71 products (#3,937 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Imported Romano 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.