Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce
Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce appears in 10 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 Sauce appears in 10 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.
- 10
- catalogued products
- #15,180
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- named brands represented
- 31%
- 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: 3 of 10 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare chicken rice & cheese burrito; Giant, potato skins, cheddar & bacon; Great American Appetizers, Cheddar & Bacon Potato Skins to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
3 of 10 linked records have some flagged component
All 10 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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.
Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce: top-decile catalog footprint (#15,180 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #15,180
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,209 others that also appear in exactly 10 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 31%
- Mean relative depth 31% across 10 parsed labels, slot 13.8 on average. Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce 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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 10 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 Sauce
Products Containing Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce
A sample of 10 high-volume listings among the 10 indexed products containing Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce:
Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce: 10 listings averaging 85/100.
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 Sauce page
Use the 10-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce — common follow-ups
Does Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce 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 Sauce. 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 Sauce? ▼
Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce appears in 10 products (#15,180 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce). 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.