Romano Cheese
Romano Cheese appears in 2,856 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
Romano Cheese appears in 2,856 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.
- 2,856
- catalogued products
- #319
- usage rank of 247,206
- 580
- named brands represented
- 57%
- 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: 959 of 2856 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Whole Grain Garden Salsa; 2 Cheese Manicotti; 3 Cheese Blend to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Romano Cheese itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
959 of 2,856 linked records have some flagged component
All 2821 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.
Romano Cheese sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#319 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #319
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 57%
- Averaged label depth puts Romano Cheese in the lower half of the list (57% of list length, mean slot 21.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Romano Cheese
Across the 2,856 products on this site that list Romano 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.1x more often with Romano Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Romano Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 349 | 12.2% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 6 | 243 | 8.5% | 3.4% |
| Red 40 | 200 | 7% | 5.4% |
| Carrageenan | 192 | 6.7% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 189 | 6.6% | 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 Romano Cheese
Products Containing Romano Cheese
16 busy labels from the 2,856 indexed products that list Romano Cheese:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Propylene Glycol”)
High-volume peers for Romano Cheese: 2,856 products, mean screening score 88.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Propylene Glycol”, “Whey Protein Isolate”, “Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour”. 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.
What to do with this Romano Cheese record
2,856 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Romano Cheese are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Romano Cheese to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Romano Cheese
Does Romano 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 Romano Cheese. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Romano Cheese? ▼
Romano Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#319 of 247,206), appearing in 2,856 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Romano Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Romano Cheese appears in 2,856 products (#319 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Romano 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.