Red Leicester Cheese
Red Leicester Cheese appears in 5 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
Red Leicester Cheese appears in 5 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.
- 5
- catalogued products
- #24,708
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 28%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Red Leicester Cheese - usage rank #24,708
- Usage rank
- #24,708
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4,103 others that also appear in exactly 5 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 28%
- Averaged label depth puts Red Leicester Cheese in the upper half of the list (28% of list length, mean slot 8.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
Reading this ingredient record
A clean co-occurrence count is not a safety clearance
No linked product currently contains a separately flagged ingredient, but zero co-occurrence is an absence-of-evidence result, not regulatory approval. The practical reading is about use: Red Leicester Cheese reaches 4 named brands, most often appears under Dairies, and typically sits in the upper half of the list. Product examples include Four Cheese & Onion Combo Mix; Pulled Beef & Red Leicester Sandwich; Resealable for freshness Reseal for freshness Ged. Check the current label and authoritative source databases when the decision involves allergies, dosage, pregnancy, or a medical condition.
0% of linked products currently carry a separately flagged ingredient
Most NOVA-tagged examples land in Group 4 (5 of 5), yet the products span unrelated categories. That contrast matters: processing class can describe how a food was made while saying nothing decisive about this ingredient's regulatory status. Use the linked examples to understand formulation context, and leave the unanswered toxicology or individual-sensitivity question unanswered.
Next check: verify the unresolved source rating directly instead of converting zero co-flags into reassurance.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 5 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 Red Leicester Cheese
Products Containing Red Leicester Cheese
5 busy labels from the 5 indexed products that list Red Leicester Cheese:
High-volume peers for Red Leicester Cheese
Top-decile company for Red Leicester Cheese: 5 listings averaging 100/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Red Leicester Cheese evidence
Use the 5-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Red Leicester Cheese before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Red Leicester Cheese
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Red Leicester Cheese? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Red Leicester Cheese, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#24,708 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Red Leicester Cheese? ▼
Red Leicester Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#24,708 of 247,206), appearing in 5 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Red Leicester Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Red Leicester Cheese appears in 5 products (#24,708 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Red Leicester 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.