Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce

Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce appears in 4 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 Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce appears in 4 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.

4
catalogued products
#28,812
usage rank of 247,206
2
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 1 of 4 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Deluxe Shells & Cheese; Potato Bacon Breakfast; Sausage Breakfast Burrito to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 55–100 score range to Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

1 of 4 linked records have some flagged component

All 4 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 55–100 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.

Upper-half catalog placement for Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce (#28,812)

Usage rank
#28,812
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6,278 others that also appear in exactly 4 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
52%
Averaged label depth puts Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce in the lower half of the list (52% of list length, mean slot 18.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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 do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 4 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 Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce

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 4 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 Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce Deluxe Shells & CheesePotato Bacon BreakfastSausage Breakfast BurritoDeluxe shells & cheese dinner, deluxe
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.

Products Containing Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce

Every indexed product currently listing Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce (4 total):

Download these 4 product rows (CSV) 4 rows PlainFoodSafe selection: CC BY 4.0. Underlying Open Food Facts data: ODbL 1.0.

Parallel catalog profiles to Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce

Peer axes for Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce: 4 products · mean score 88.8/100.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

What to do with this Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce record

Start from Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce's 4 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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.

Questions readers ask about Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce

Does Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce 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 Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Where does Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce show up across the catalog?

Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce sits above the median for catalog prevalence (4 products, #28,812 of 247,206) across 2 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.

Why is Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce so common on ingredient lists?

The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce. Its in the lower half of the list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Sauce). 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.