Reduced Fat Cheddar
Reduced Fat Cheddar appears in 9 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
Reduced Fat Cheddar appears in 9 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.
- 9
- catalogued products
- #16,390
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- named brands represented
- 4%
- 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 Reduced Fat Cheddar - usage rank #16,390
- Usage rank
- #16,390
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,423 others that also appear in exactly 9 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 4%
- Averaged label depth puts Reduced Fat Cheddar near the top of the captured list (4% of list length, mean slot 1.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Reduced Fat Cheddar spans 5 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with Fiesta Blend; Finely Shredded Cheese; Market pantry, mexican style shredded cheese when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
5 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 7 of 9 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 9 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 Reduced Fat Cheddar
Products Containing Reduced Fat Cheddar
A sample of 9 high-volume listings among the 9 indexed products containing Reduced Fat Cheddar:
High-volume peers for Reduced Fat Cheddar
High-volume peers for Reduced Fat Cheddar: 9 products, mean screening score 99.4/100. 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 Reduced Fat Cheddar page
Use the 9-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Reduced Fat Cheddar before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Reduced Fat Cheddar — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Reduced Fat Cheddar? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Reduced Fat Cheddar, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#16,390 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Reduced Fat Cheddar? ▼
Reduced Fat Cheddar ranks in the top decile by product count (#16,390 of 247,206), appearing in 9 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Reduced Fat Cheddar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Reduced Fat Cheddar appears in 9 products (#16,390 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Reduced Fat Cheddar). 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.