Shredded Swiss Cheese
Shredded Swiss Cheese 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
Shredded Swiss Cheese 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
- 4
- named brands represented
- 66%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
70% 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 Swiss Cheese as the trigger. Open records such as Bacon mac & cheese bites; Chef salad w ham & turkey; CHEF SALAD WITH TURKEY & UNCURED HAM and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 79.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 66% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
70% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 8 of 10 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 Swiss Cheese sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#15,180 / 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
- 66%
- Mean relative depth 66% across 10 parsed labels, slot 27.8 on average. Shredded Swiss Cheese tends to sit in the lower 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 Shredded Swiss Cheese
Products Containing Shredded Swiss Cheese
A sample of 10 high-volume listings among the 10 indexed products containing Shredded Swiss Cheese:
Shredded Swiss Cheese vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Shredded Swiss Cheese: 10 listings averaging 79.5/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Shredded Swiss Cheese evidence
Start from Shredded Swiss Cheese's 10 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Shredded Swiss Cheese before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Shredded Swiss Cheese sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
70% 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 Swiss 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 Swiss Cheese? ▼
Shredded Swiss Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Shredded Swiss Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Shredded Swiss Cheese appears in 10 products (#15,180 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Shredded Swiss 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.