Parmesan & Romano Cheese
Parmesan & Romano Cheese appears in 21 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
Parmesan & Romano Cheese appears in 21 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.
- 21
- catalogued products
- #9,037
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 53%
- 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.
Parmesan & Romano Cheese sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#9,037 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #9,037
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 333 others that also appear in exactly 21 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 21 products listing it (mean slot 25.4). Parmesan & Romano 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Parmesan & Romano Cheese spans 4 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Creamed Spinach; Parmesan & Romano Pasta Sauce; Sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
4 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 18 of 21 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 Parmesan & Romano Cheese
Products Containing Parmesan & Romano Cheese
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 21 indexed products containing Parmesan & Romano Cheese:
High-volume peers for Parmesan & Romano Cheese
Top-decile company for Parmesan & Romano Cheese: 21 listings averaging 97.6/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Parmesan & Romano Cheese record
Start from Parmesan & Romano Cheese's 21 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
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This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Parmesan & Romano Cheese
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Parmesan & Romano Cheese? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Parmesan & Romano Cheese, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,037 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Parmesan & Romano Cheese? ▼
Parmesan & Romano Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,037 of 247,206), appearing in 21 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Parmesan & Romano Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Parmesan & Romano Cheese appears in 21 products (#9,037 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Parmesan & 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.