Pasteurized Processed Cheese
Pasteurized Processed Cheese appears in 31 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 Processed Cheese appears in 31 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.
- 31
- catalogued products
- #6,896
- usage rank of 247,206
- 10
- named brands represented
- 36%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
61.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Pasteurized Processed Cheese as the trigger. Open records such as Bratwurst With Cheddar Cheese; Cheese Curds; Cheese Wieners and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 89.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 36% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
61.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 31 of 31 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
High-volume listing for Pasteurized Processed Cheese - usage rank #6,896
- Usage rank
- #6,896
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 153 others that also appear in exactly 31 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 36%
- Mean relative depth 36% across 31 parsed labels, slot 17.5 on average. Pasteurized Processed Cheese tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Pasteurized Processed Cheese
Across the 31 products on this site that list Pasteurized Processed Cheese, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 12.1x more often with Pasteurized Processed Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pasteurized Processed Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 9 | 29% | 2.4% |
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 Pasteurized Processed Cheese
Products Containing Pasteurized Processed Cheese
16 busy labels from the 31 indexed products that list Pasteurized Processed Cheese:
High-volume peers for Pasteurized Processed Cheese
High-volume peers for Pasteurized Processed Cheese: 31 products, mean screening score 89.4/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Pasteurized Processed Cheese page
Use the 31-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 Processed 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.
Questions readers ask about Pasteurized Processed Cheese
How should I read safety signals when Pasteurized Processed Cheese sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
61.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Pasteurized Processed Cheese is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pasteurized Processed Cheese? ▼
Pasteurized Processed Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,896 of 247,206), appearing in 31 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Pasteurized Processed Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pasteurized Processed Cheese appears in 31 products (#6,896 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pasteurized Processed 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.