Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture

Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture appears in 32 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

Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture appears in 32 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.

32
catalogued products
#6,747
usage rank of 247,206
17
named brands represented
43%
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 Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture - usage rank #6,747

Usage rank
#6,747
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 148 others that also appear in exactly 32 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
43%
Mean relative depth 43% across 32 parsed labels, slot 16.5 on average. Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture tends to sit in the upper 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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 12.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture spans 17 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with Cheese Crumbles Gorgonzola; Cheese dip & pretzels; Cheese Pizza when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

17 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 29 of 32 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 Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture

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 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture
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.

Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture: 32 listings averaging 97.3/100.

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 Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture record

Start from Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture's 32 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,747 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture?

Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,747 of 247,206), appearing in 32 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture appears in 32 products (#6,747 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pasteurized Milk Cheese Culture). 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.