White Cheese

White 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

White 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
6
named brands represented
12%
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 White Cheese - usage rank #15,180

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
12%
Averaged label depth puts White Cheese near the top of the captured list (12% of list length, mean slot 3.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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 to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 10% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: White Cheese spans 6 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Blue Cheese Stuffed Colossal Greek Olives; creamy corn; Imported Italian Wood-Fired Pizza when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

6 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 6 of 9 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.

Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.

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 White 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 10 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 5060708090100110 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing White Cheese Blue Cheese Stuffed Colossal Greek Olivescreamy cornImported Italian Wood-Fired PizzaPANDEBONO Cheese Bread RollsPandeBono ColombianoTequeños Cheese SticksYuca Arepas Cassava Sandwich ThinsMexican style queso dipSpinach artichoke queso dipYuca & Cheese Bread
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Top-decile company for White Cheese: 10 listings averaging 96/100.

Similar mean product score

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

Using the White Cheese evidence

Use the 10-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 White Cheese to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology

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

Questions readers ask about White Cheese

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on White Cheese?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to White Cheese, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#15,180 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with White Cheese?

White Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is White Cheese so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet White Cheese appears in 10 products (#15,180 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (White 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.