Smoked Gouda Cheese
Smoked Gouda 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
Smoked Gouda 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
- 15
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 23 of 57 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Apple Gouda Bratwurst; Artisan Style Crust Pizza - Salami & Basil Pesto; Bbq chicken cauliflower crust to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 40–100 score range to Smoked Gouda Cheese itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
23 of 57 linked records have some flagged component
All 57 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 40–100 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.
Smoked Gouda 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
- 49%
- Mean relative depth 49% across 57 parsed labels, slot 23.6 on average. Smoked Gouda Cheese tends to sit in the upper 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Smoked Gouda Cheese
Across the 57 products on this site that list Smoked Gouda 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 3.7x more often with Smoked Gouda Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Smoked Gouda Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 12 | 21.1% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 9 | 15.8% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 8.8% | 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 Smoked Gouda Cheese
Products Containing Smoked Gouda Cheese
16 busy labels from the 57 indexed products that list Smoked Gouda Cheese:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural & Artificial Flavoring”)
High-volume peers for Smoked Gouda Cheese: 57 products, mean screening score 93.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Natural & Artificial Flavoring”, “Ancho Chile”, “Apricot Kernels”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
What to do with this Smoked Gouda Cheese record
Start from Smoked Gouda Cheese's 57 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Smoked Gouda Cheese and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Smoked Gouda Cheese next to “Ancho Chile” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Smoked Gouda 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 Smoked Gouda Cheese. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Smoked Gouda Cheese? ▼
Smoked Gouda 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 Smoked Gouda Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Smoked Gouda Cheese appears in 57 products (#4,553 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Smoked Gouda 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.