Pasteurized Process Cheese
Pasteurized Process 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
Pasteurized Process 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
- 59%
- 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.
Pasteurized Process 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
- 59%
- Averaged label depth puts Pasteurized Process Cheese in the lower half of the list (59% of list length, mean slot 31.9). 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 to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pasteurized Process Cheese spans 4 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with 5 Cheese Pizza, 5 Cheese; Buffalo Style Mac & Cheese; Cream Of Broccoli With Cheese Soup when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.5/100 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 20 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 Pasteurized Process Cheese
Products Containing Pasteurized Process Cheese
High-volume slice (16 of 21) for products naming Pasteurized Process Cheese:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Pasteurized Process Cheese: 21 listings averaging 95.5/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Pasteurized Process Cheese page
Use the 21-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Pasteurized Process Cheese to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pasteurized Process Cheese? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pasteurized Process 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 Pasteurized Process Cheese? ▼
Pasteurized Process Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,037 of 247,206), appearing in 21 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Pasteurized Process Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pasteurized Process Cheese appears in 21 products (#9,037 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pasteurized Process 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.