Pepper Jack Cheese
Pepper Jack Cheese appears in 189 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
Pepper Jack Cheese appears in 189 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.
- 189
- catalogued products
- #2,017
- usage rank of 247,206
- 60
- named brands represented
- 46%
- 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: 64 of 189 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Alarm Chili Portabella Mushrooms; Asiago & Pepper Jack Cheese Crisps; Assorted mini quiche to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Pepper Jack Cheese itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
64 of 189 linked records have some flagged component
All 183 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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.
Pepper Jack Cheese sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,017 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,017
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 189 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 46%
- Mean relative depth 46% across 189 parsed labels, slot 19.8 on average. Pepper Jack 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 Pepper Jack Cheese
Across the 189 products on this site that list Pepper Jack 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.4x more often with Pepper Jack Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pepper Jack Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 26 | 13.8% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 22 | 11.6% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 13 | 6.9% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 5 | 2.6% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 5 | 2.6% | 4.2% |
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 Pepper Jack Cheese
Products Containing Pepper Jack Cheese
High-volume slice (16 of 189) for products naming Pepper Jack Cheese:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural Almond Extract”)
Top-decile company for Pepper Jack Cheese: 189 listings averaging 94.6/100. Nearest count peers include “Natural Almond Extract”, “Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating”, “Flaxseed Meal”.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
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 Pepper Jack Cheese page
Start from Pepper Jack Cheese's 189 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Pepper Jack Cheese and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Pepper Jack Cheese next to “Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Pepper Jack Cheese 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 Pepper Jack Cheese. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pepper Jack Cheese? ▼
Pepper Jack Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,017 of 247,206), appearing in 189 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Pepper Jack Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pepper Jack Cheese appears in 189 products (#2,017 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pepper Jack 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.