Lowfat Cottage Cheese
Lowfat Cottage Cheese appears in 31 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
Lowfat Cottage Cheese appears in 31 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.
- 31
- catalogued products
- #6,896
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- named brands represented
- 1%
- 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 Lowfat Cottage Cheese - usage rank #6,896
- Usage rank
- #6,896
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 153 others that also appear in exactly 31 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 1%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 31 products listing it (mean slot 1.0). Lowfat Cottage Cheese usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 6.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Lowfat Cottage Cheese spans 5 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 2% Milkfat Lowfat Cottage Cheese & Mango Topping, Mango; 2% Milkfat Lowfat Cottage Cheese & Raspberry Topping; 2% Milkfat Lowfat Cottage Cheese & Topping, Pineapple when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
5 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 30 of 31 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 Lowfat Cottage Cheese
Products Containing Lowfat Cottage Cheese
High-volume slice (16 of 31) for products naming Lowfat Cottage Cheese:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Lowfat Cottage Cheese sits among other busy catalog rows (31 products, mean score 99.7/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Lowfat Cottage Cheese page
31 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Lowfat Cottage Cheese are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Lowfat Cottage Cheese to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Lowfat Cottage Cheese — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Lowfat Cottage Cheese? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Lowfat Cottage Cheese, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,896 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lowfat Cottage Cheese? ▼
Lowfat Cottage Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,896 of 247,206), appearing in 31 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Lowfat Cottage Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lowfat Cottage Cheese appears in 31 products (#6,896 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lowfat Cottage 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.