Shredded Fontina Cheese

Shredded Fontina Cheese appears in 5 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 Fontina Cheese appears in 5 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.

5
catalogued products
#24,708
usage rank of 247,206
0
named brands represented
65%
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.

High-volume listing for Shredded Fontina Cheese - usage rank #24,708

Usage rank
#24,708
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4,103 others that also appear in exactly 5 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
65%
Mean relative depth 65% across 5 parsed labels, slot 28.8 on average. Shredded Fontina Cheese tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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.

How to use this page

A clean co-occurrence count is not a safety clearance

No linked product currently contains a separately flagged ingredient, but zero co-occurrence is an absence-of-evidence result, not regulatory approval. The practical reading is about use: Shredded Fontina Cheese reaches 0 named brands, most often appears under Meals, and typically sits in the lower half of the list. Product examples include 5 cheese pizza; Double decker cheese pizza; Medium mozzarella, gruyere, asiago, fontina & romano cheese pizza. Check the current label and authoritative source databases when the decision involves allergies, dosage, pregnancy, or a medical condition.

0% of linked products currently carry a separately flagged ingredient

Most NOVA-tagged examples land in Group 4 (5 of 5), yet the products span unrelated categories. That contrast matters: processing class can describe how a food was made while saying nothing decisive about this ingredient's regulatory status. Use the linked examples to understand formulation context, and leave the unanswered toxicology or individual-sensitivity question unanswered.

Next check: verify the unresolved source rating directly instead of converting zero co-flags into reassurance.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 5 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 Fontina Cheese

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 5 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Shredded Fontina Cheese 5 cheese pizzaDouble decker cheese pizzaMedium mozzarella, gruyere, asiago, fontina & romano cheese pizzaNew york style crust pizzaPizza
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Products Containing Shredded Fontina Cheese

5 busy labels from the 5 indexed products that list Shredded Fontina Cheese:

Download these 5 product rows (CSV) 5 rows PlainFoodSafe selection: CC BY 4.0. Underlying Open Food Facts data: ODbL 1.0.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Top-decile company for Shredded Fontina Cheese: 5 listings averaging 100/100.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Next steps from the Shredded Fontina Cheese page

Use the 5-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Shredded Fontina Cheese to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Shredded Fontina Cheese

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Shredded Fontina Cheese?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Shredded Fontina Cheese, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#24,708 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Shredded Fontina Cheese?

Shredded Fontina Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#24,708 of 247,206), appearing in 5 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Shredded Fontina Cheese so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Shredded Fontina Cheese appears in 5 products (#24,708 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Shredded Fontina 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.