Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese
Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese appears in 171 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 Cheese appears in 171 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.
- 171
- catalogued products
- #2,157
- usage rank of 247,206
- 48
- named brands represented
- 21%
- 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: 58 of 171 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 4 Cheese Mexican shredded reduced fat natural cheese; 6 Spreadable Cheese Wedges; All american classic meatless burger to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Dairies supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
58 of 171 linked records have some flagged component
All 167 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,157 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,157
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 171 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 21%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 171 products listing it (mean slot 10.2). Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese
Across the 171 products on this site that list Reduced Fat Cheddar 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 4.9x more often with Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 20 | 11.7% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 20 | 11.7% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 19 | 11.1% | 4.5% |
| TBHQ | 17 | 9.9% | 0.5% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 9 | 5.3% | 1.3% |
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 Cheddar Cheese
Products Containing Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 171 indexed products containing Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese:
High-volume peers for Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese beside “Banana Powder”
High-volume peers for Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese: 171 products, mean screening score 94.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Banana Powder; Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine; Mango Puree Concentrate. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
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 Cheddar Cheese evidence
Start from Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese's 171 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese next to “Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine” (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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Reduced Fat Cheddar 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 Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese? ▼
Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,157 of 247,206), appearing in 171 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese appears in 171 products (#2,157 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Reduced Fat Cheddar 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.