Ricotta Cheese
Ricotta Cheese appears in 1,350 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
Ricotta Cheese appears in 1,350 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.
- 1,350
- catalogued products
- #545
- usage rank of 247,206
- 307
- named brands represented
- 30%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 342 of 1350 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 2 Cheese Manicotti; 3 Color Cheese Tortellini; 365 everyday value, organic five cheese ravioli to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Ricotta Cheese itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
342 of 1,350 linked records have some flagged component
All 1341 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.
Ricotta Cheese sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#545 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #545
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 30%
- Mean relative depth 30% across 1,351 parsed labels, slot 11.1 on average. Ricotta 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Ricotta Cheese
Across the 1,350 products on this site that list Ricotta 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. Carrageenan shows up about 3.9x more often with Ricotta Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ricotta Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 238 | 17.6% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 98 | 7.3% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 40 | 3% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 39 | 2.9% | 1.1% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 25 | 1.9% | 2.4% |
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 Ricotta Cheese
Products Containing Ricotta Cheese
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,350 indexed products containing Ricotta Cheese:
High-volume peers for Ricotta Cheese beside “Millet”
High-volume peers for Ricotta Cheese: 1,350 products, mean screening score 96.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Millet”, “Lemon”, “Sulfur Dioxide”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Ricotta Cheese evidence
1,350 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Ricotta Cheese are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Ricotta Cheese before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Ricotta Cheese with a peer such as “Millet” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Ricotta Cheese
Does Ricotta 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 Ricotta Cheese. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ricotta Cheese? ▼
Ricotta Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#545 of 247,206), appearing in 1,350 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ricotta Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ricotta Cheese appears in 1,350 products (#545 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ricotta 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.