Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese

Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese appears in 180 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

Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese appears in 180 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.

180
catalogued products
#2,080
usage rank of 247,206
45
named brands represented
53%
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: 68 of 180 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Ahold, self-rising crust, 1/2 pepperoni & 1/2 cheese pizza; Artisan crust pizza, pepperoni; Bacon mac 'n' cheese to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 40–100 score range to Whole Milk Mozzarella 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.

68 of 180 linked records have some flagged component

All 180 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.

Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,080 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#2,080
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 10 others that also appear in exactly 180 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
53%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 180 products listing it (mean slot 23.7). Whole Milk Mozzarella 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.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

What else is usually in the same product as Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese

Across the 180 products on this site that list Whole Milk Mozzarella 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 13.2x more often with Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese than in the catalogue at large.

Sodium Nitrite: +29.3ppSodium Nitrite+29.3ppBHA: +27.6ppBHA+27.6ppBHT: +27.2ppBHT+27.2ppCaramel Coloring: -0.1ppCaramel Coloring-0.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Sodium Nitrite
29.3pp
BHA
27.6pp
BHT
27.2pp
Caramel Coloring
-0.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 57 31.7% 2.4%
BHA 51 28.3% 0.7%
BHT 51 28.3% 1.1%
Caramel Coloring 10 5.6% 5.7%

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 Whole Milk Mozzarella 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 16 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 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Whole Milk Mozzarella 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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Butter Powder”)

High-volume peers for Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese: 180 products, mean screening score 85.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Butter Powder · Corn Cereal · From Sunflower Oil. 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

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

What to do with this Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese record

Start from Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese's 180 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Compare Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese with a peer such as “Butter Powder” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology

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

Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese — common follow-ups

Does Whole Milk Mozzarella 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 Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese?

Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,080 of 247,206), appearing in 180 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese appears in 180 products (#2,080 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whole Milk Mozzarella 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.