Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese
Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese appears in 56 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 Monterey Jack Cheese appears in 56 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.
- 56
- catalogued products
- #4,615
- usage rank of 247,206
- 25
- named brands represented
- 37%
- 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.
Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,615 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,615
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 54 others that also appear in exactly 56 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Mean relative depth 37% across 56 parsed labels, slot 6.0 on average. Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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
Use prevalence before concern
Only 1.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese spans 25 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 4 Cheese Mexican shredded reduced fat natural cheese; Buffalo Style Chicken Poppers; 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 99.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
25 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 45 of 56 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 Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese
Products Containing Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese
16 busy labels from the 56 indexed products that list Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese:
Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese sits among other busy catalog rows (56 products, mean score 99.5/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Almond Base · Apples With Calcium Ascorbate To Promote Whiteness And Maintain Texture · Beta-carotene For Color. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese page
56 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese next to “Apples With Calcium Ascorbate To Promote Whiteness And Maintain Texture” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.
Questions readers ask about Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,615 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese? ▼
Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,615 of 247,206), appearing in 56 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese appears in 56 products (#4,615 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Reduced Fat Monterey 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.