Pasteurized Reduced Fat Milk

Pasteurized Reduced Fat Milk appears in 47 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 Reduced Fat Milk appears in 47 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.

47
catalogued products
#5,176
usage rank of 247,206
6
named brands represented
9%
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 Reduced Fat Milk sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,176 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#5,176
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 83 others that also appear in exactly 47 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
9%
Averaged label depth puts Pasteurized Reduced Fat Milk near the top of the captured list (9% of list length, mean slot 3.0). 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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 2.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pasteurized Reduced Fat Milk spans 6 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 4 Cheese Mexican shredded reduced fat natural cheese; 4 Shredded Italian Cheese; Cheddar jack shredded reduced fat cheddar & monterey when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

6 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 38 of 46 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 Reduced Fat Milk

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 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Pasteurized Reduced Fat Milk
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 Reduced Fat Milk vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Pasteurized Reduced Fat Milk sits among other busy catalog rows (47 products, mean score 99.9/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

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 Reduced Fat Milk record

Use the 47-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

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

Pasteurized Reduced Fat Milk — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pasteurized Reduced Fat Milk?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pasteurized Reduced Fat Milk, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,176 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Pasteurized Reduced Fat Milk?

Pasteurized Reduced Fat Milk ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,176 of 247,206), appearing in 47 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Pasteurized Reduced Fat Milk so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pasteurized Reduced Fat Milk appears in 47 products (#5,176 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pasteurized Reduced Fat Milk). 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.