Mild Cheddar Cheese
Mild Cheddar Cheese appears in 151 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
Mild Cheddar Cheese appears in 151 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.
- 151
- catalogued products
- #2,353
- usage rank of 247,206
- 55
- named brands represented
- 52%
- 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: 74 of 151 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare American Macaroni Salad; American Style Pasta Salad with Chicken; Artisan mac and cheese to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Mild Cheddar Cheese itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Sandwiches supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
74 of 151 linked records have some flagged component
All 150 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.
High-volume listing for Mild Cheddar Cheese - usage rank #2,353
- Usage rank
- #2,353
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11 others that also appear in exactly 151 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 52%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 151 products listing it (mean slot 22.1). Mild Cheddar Cheese usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Mild Cheddar Cheese
Across the 151 products on this site that list Mild Cheddar 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 11x more often with Mild Cheddar Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Mild Cheddar Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 40 | 26.5% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 23 | 15.2% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 17 | 11.3% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 6 | 4% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 6 | 4% | 4.8% |
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 Mild Cheddar Cheese
Products Containing Mild Cheddar Cheese
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 151 indexed products containing Mild Cheddar Cheese:
High-volume peers for Mild Cheddar Cheese beside “Anchovy Paste”
Mild Cheddar Cheese sits among other busy catalog rows (151 products, mean score 90/100). Nearest count peers include “Anchovy Paste”, “Barley Malt Flour”, “Cultured Pasteurized Milk And Cream”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Mild Cheddar Cheese record
Start from Mild Cheddar Cheese's 151 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Mild Cheddar 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. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Mild Cheddar 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 Mild Cheddar Cheese. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Mild Cheddar Cheese? ▼
Mild Cheddar Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,353 of 247,206), appearing in 151 indexed products led by Sandwiches. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Mild Cheddar Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Mild Cheddar Cheese appears in 151 products (#2,353 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Mild Cheddar 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.