Unsmoked Provolone Cheese
Unsmoked Provolone Cheese appears in 40 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
Unsmoked Provolone Cheese appears in 40 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.
- 40
- catalogued products
- #5,797
- usage rank of 247,206
- 17
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 18 of 40 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Chicken, bacon, and ranch flatbread; Five Cheese Pizza Made With Cauliflower Crust; Flatbread Pizza to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 35–100 score range to Unsmoked Provolone Cheese itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
18 of 40 linked records have some flagged component
All 40 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 35–100 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.
High-volume listing for Unsmoked Provolone Cheese - usage rank #5,797
- Usage rank
- #5,797
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 40 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 40 products listing it (mean slot 25.5). Unsmoked Provolone Cheese usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Unsmoked Provolone Cheese
Across the 40 products on this site that list Unsmoked Provolone 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 12.5x more often with Unsmoked Provolone Cheese than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Unsmoked Provolone Cheese products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 12 | 30% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 8 | 20% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 6 | 15% | 1.1% |
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 Unsmoked Provolone Cheese
Products Containing Unsmoked Provolone Cheese
16 busy labels from the 40 indexed products that list Unsmoked Provolone Cheese:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Unsmoked Provolone Cheese: 40 listings averaging 88.4/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Unsmoked Provolone Cheese page
Start from Unsmoked Provolone Cheese's 40 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Unsmoked Provolone Cheese to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Unsmoked Provolone 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 Unsmoked Provolone Cheese. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Unsmoked Provolone Cheese? ▼
Unsmoked Provolone Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,797 of 247,206), appearing in 40 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Unsmoked Provolone Cheese so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Unsmoked Provolone Cheese appears in 40 products (#5,797 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Unsmoked Provolone 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.