Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese

Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese appears in 138 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 Mozzarella Cheese appears in 138 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.

138
catalogued products
#2,495
usage rank of 247,206
20
named brands represented
32%
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.

How to use this page

Audit the co-occurring flags first

59.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese as the trigger. Open records such as A creamy blend of veggies and mozzarella cheese in a crust made with cauliflower bites, veggie & mozzarella; Barbacoa-Style Beef; Big and bold chicken bacon ranch hot pockets and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 84.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 32% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

59.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 130 of 135 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,495 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#2,495
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 12 others that also appear in exactly 138 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
32%
Mean relative depth 32% across 138 parsed labels, slot 19.6 on average. Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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.

What else is usually in the same product as Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese

Across the 138 products on this site that list Reduced Fat Mozzarella 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 14.8x more often with Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese than in the catalogue at large.

Sodium Nitrite: +33.1ppSodium Nitrite+33.1ppBHT: +27.9ppBHT+27.9ppBHA: +27.6ppBHA+27.6ppCaramel Coloring: +14.6ppCaramel Coloring+14.6ppCarrageenan: +4.2ppCarrageenan+4.2pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Sodium Nitrite
33.1pp
BHT
27.9pp
BHA
27.6pp
Caramel Coloring
14.6pp
Carrageenan
4.2pp
Additive Shared products Share of Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 49 35.5% 2.4%
BHT 40 29% 1.1%
BHA 39 28.3% 0.7%
Caramel Coloring 28 20.3% 5.7%
Carrageenan 12 8.7% 4.5%

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 Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese

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 406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Added As A Preservative”)

High-volume peers for Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese: 138 products, mean screening score 84.1/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Added As A Preservative; Boneless Chicken Breast With Rib Meat; Chicken Broth Powder. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese evidence

138 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins

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

Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese sits in heavily flagged products?

59.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese?

Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,495 of 247,206), appearing in 138 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese appears in 138 products (#2,495 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Reduced Fat Mozzarella 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.