Sharp Cheddar Cheese
Sharp Cheddar Cheese appears in 195 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
Sharp Cheddar Cheese appears in 195 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.
- 195
- catalogued products
- #1,971
- usage rank of 247,206
- 83
- named brands represented
- 29%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 40 of 195 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Aramouni's, Decadent Cheddar Spread; Bacon Cheddar Gourmet Dip; Baked Potato With Bacon & Cheese Soup to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 45–100 score range to Sharp Cheddar Cheese itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Dairies supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
40 of 195 linked records have some flagged component
All 190 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 45–100 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.
High-volume listing for Sharp Cheddar Cheese - usage rank #1,971
- Usage rank
- #1,971
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 195 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 29%
- Averaged label depth puts Sharp Cheddar Cheese in the upper half of the list (29% of list length, mean slot 12.9). 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 Sharp Cheddar Cheese
Across the 195 products on this site that list Sharp 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. Carrageenan shows up about 3.1x more often with Sharp Cheddar Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sharp Cheddar Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 27 | 13.8% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 9 | 4.6% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 8 | 4.1% | 5.7% |
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 Sharp Cheddar Cheese
Products Containing Sharp Cheddar Cheese
High-volume slice (16 of 195) for products naming Sharp Cheddar Cheese:
Sharp Cheddar Cheese vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Sharp Cheddar Cheese sits among other busy catalog rows (195 products, mean score 97.5/100). Nearest count peers include “Asadero Cheese”, “Bbq Sauce”, “Dough Conditioner Blend”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Sharp Cheddar Cheese page
195 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sharp Cheddar Cheese are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Sharp Cheddar Cheese and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sharp Cheddar Cheese — common follow-ups
Does Sharp 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 Sharp 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 Sharp Cheddar Cheese? ▼
Sharp Cheddar Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,971 of 247,206), appearing in 195 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sharp Cheddar Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sharp Cheddar Cheese appears in 195 products (#1,971 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sharp 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.