Shredded Cheddar Cheese
Shredded Cheddar Cheese appears in 57 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
Shredded Cheddar Cheese appears in 57 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.
- 57
- catalogued products
- #4,553
- usage rank of 247,206
- 22
- named brands represented
- 55%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
52.6% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Shredded Cheddar Cheese as the trigger. Open records such as 5 Cheese Bread; 5 cheese bread; 5 Cheese Breadsticks and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 92.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 55% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
52.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 55 of 56 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Shredded Cheddar Cheese: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,553 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,553
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 61 others that also appear in exactly 57 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 55%
- Averaged label depth puts Shredded Cheddar Cheese in the lower half of the list (55% of list length, mean slot 25.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Shredded Cheddar Cheese
Across the 57 products on this site that list Shredded 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 4.6x more often with Shredded Cheddar Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Shredded Cheddar Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 15 | 26.3% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 13 | 22.8% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 11 | 19.3% | 4.5% |
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 Shredded Cheddar Cheese
Products Containing Shredded Cheddar Cheese
16 busy labels from the 57 indexed products that list Shredded Cheddar Cheese:
High-volume peers for Shredded Cheddar Cheese beside “Natural & Artificial Flavoring”
Shredded Cheddar Cheese sits among other busy catalog rows (57 products, mean score 92.6/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Natural & Artificial Flavoring; Ancho Chile; Apricot Kernels. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Shredded Cheddar Cheese page
Start from Shredded Cheddar Cheese's 57 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Shredded Cheddar Cheese to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Shredded Cheddar Cheese with a peer such as “Natural & Artificial Flavoring” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Shredded Cheddar Cheese — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Shredded Cheddar Cheese sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
52.6% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Shredded Cheddar Cheese is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Shredded Cheddar Cheese? ▼
Shredded Cheddar Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,553 of 247,206), appearing in 57 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Shredded Cheddar Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Shredded Cheddar Cheese appears in 57 products (#4,553 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Shredded 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.