Parmesan Cheese Powder
Parmesan Cheese Powder appears in 96 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 Cheese Powder appears in 96 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.
- 96
- catalogued products
- #3,214
- usage rank of 247,206
- 45
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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 Parmesan Cheese Powder - usage rank #3,214
- Usage rank
- #3,214
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 96 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 96 products listing it (mean slot 19.0). Parmesan Cheese Powder 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.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Parmesan Cheese Powder spans 45 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Alfredo Pasta & Sauce; Ancient Grains Crackers Parmesan Herb; Bean pasta + veggie kit when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 92.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
45 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 92 of 94 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Parmesan Cheese Powder
Across the 96 products on this site that list Parmesan Cheese Powder, 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. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 4x more often with Parmesan Cheese Powder than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Parmesan Cheese Powder products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 8 | 8.3% | 2.1% |
| BHT | 8 | 8.3% | 1.1% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 7 | 7.3% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 7 | 7.3% | 0.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 7 | 7.3% | 5.7% |
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 Parmesan Cheese Powder
Products Containing Parmesan Cheese Powder
16 busy labels from the 96 indexed products that list Parmesan Cheese Powder:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Ammonium Hydrogen Carbonate”)
Top-decile company for Parmesan Cheese Powder: 96 listings averaging 92.9/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Ammonium Hydrogen Carbonate; Annatto Coloring; Cake.
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.
Using the Parmesan Cheese Powder evidence
96 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Parmesan Cheese Powder are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Parmesan Cheese Powder to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Parmesan Cheese Powder with a peer such as “Ammonium Hydrogen Carbonate” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Parmesan Cheese Powder
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Parmesan Cheese Powder? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Parmesan Cheese Powder, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,214 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Parmesan Cheese Powder? ▼
Parmesan Cheese Powder ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,214 of 247,206), appearing in 96 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Parmesan Cheese Powder so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Parmesan Cheese Powder appears in 96 products (#3,214 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Parmesan Cheese Powder). 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.