Safe

Semi soft smoked cheese mild, mellow, nutty & smoky

by Norseland Inc

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0075501972965 · Norseland Inc · Dairies. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0075501972965 · Serving size 1 ONZ (28 g)

The verdict

Semi soft smoked cheese mild, mellow, nutty & smoky by Norseland Inc scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 4 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. Its short parsed label begins Pasteurized Part Skim-milk, Rennet, Salt, so the useful next step is to inspect those few components directly rather than infer from the composite score. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 4 analyzed
Group 3
Processed foods
D
Nutri-Score nutrition grade

Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.

Composite profile score

One verdict from three independent sources

70/100

Grade B

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 3

Processed foods

Nutrition Grade

D

Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade

Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.

01972965 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Semi soft smoked cheese mild, mellow, nutty & smoky label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-SHORT 4 ing. REG-PART 50% reg. NOVA-G3 G3 processed NUTRI-D Nutri-D RANK-LONG Len top 86% LEAD-RARE Rennet PHOTO-FINISH Semi-Soft Part-Skim Cheese · ±0 BOOK-OFF …972965 · July 2026

2 of 4 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Rennet). Source sheet 01972965 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Semi-Soft Part-Skim Cheese · Nearest score peer is Semi-Soft Part-Skim Cheese at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.

This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.

The declared list parsed into a small number of components. On a short list the registry screen covers close to everything the packaging declares, and any single matched component accounts for a correspondingly large share of the composite. Short lists also leave less room for parsing error, since there are fewer separators and qualifiers for the extraction to resolve.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Semi soft smoked cheese mild, mellow, nutty & smoky: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Semi soft smoked cheese m…100/1002. Semi-Soft Part-Skim Cheese: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Semi-Soft Part-Skim Cheese100/1003. Swiss Cheese: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Swiss Cheese100/1004. REDUCED FAT SWISS CHEESE: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. REDUCED FAT SWISS CHEESE100/1005. Cheese Snacks: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Cheese Snacks100/100
High-band neighbours for Semi soft smoked cheese mild, mellow, nutty & smoky (100/100) outside Norseland Inc.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Semi soft smoked cheese mild, mellow, nutty & smoky
100/100
Semi-Soft Part-Skim Cheese
100/100
Swiss Cheese
100/100
REDUCED FAT SWISS CHEESE
100/100
Cheese Snacks
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 23,001 products we've scored in the Dairies category, the average safety score is 97.8/100. Semi soft smoked cheese mild, mellow, nutty & smoky scores 2.2 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 97.8/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Dairies products

Semi soft smoked cheese mild, mellow, nutty & smoky lists 4 ingredients on its label

4 14th percentile a longer ingredient list than 14% of the 21,438 products we track

0–2: 120 products (1%). Below this entry. 2–4: 2,805 products (13%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4,714 products (22%). This entry sits in this band. 6–8: 2,694 products (13%). Above this entry. 8–10: 1,996 products (9%). Above this entry. 10–12: 1,884 products (9%). Above this entry. 12–14: 1,734 products (8%). Above this entry. 14–16: 1,639 products (8%). Above this entry. 16–18: 1,261 products (6%). Above this entry. 18–20: 841 products (4%). Above this entry. 20–22: 481 products (2%). Above this entry. 22–24: 303 products (1%). Above this entry. 24–26: 228 products (1%). Above this entry. 26–28: 151 products (1%). Above this entry. 28–30: 122 products (1%). Above this entry. 30–32: 115 products (1%). Above this entry. 32–34: 81 products (0%). Above this entry. 34–36: 57 products (0%). Above this entry. 36–38: 45 products (0%). Above this entry. 38–40: 33 products (0%). Above this entry. 40–42: 134 products (1%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Dairies product, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Distribution as text

21,438 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 4 (14th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
120 products (1%)
2–4
2,805 products (13%)
4–6
4,714 products (22%)
6–8
2,694 products (13%)
8–10
1,996 products (9%)
10–12
1,884 products (9%)
12–14
1,734 products (8%)
14–16
1,639 products (8%)
16–18
1,261 products (6%)
18–20
841 products (4%)
20–22
481 products (2%)
22–24
303 products (1%)
24–26
228 products (1%)
26–28
151 products (1%)
28–30
122 products (1%)
30–32
115 products (1%)
32–34
81 products (0%)
34–36
57 products (0%)
36–38
45 products (0%)
38–40
33 products (0%)
40 and above
134 products (1%)

Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026

Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 21,438 Dairies products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Full Ingredient List

Pasteurized part skim-milk, rennet, salt, culture.

Categories

Dairies Fermented foods Fermented milk products Cheeses

High-score cross-brand comparables for Semi soft smoked cheese mild, mellow, nutty & smoky

Neighbours outside Norseland Inc with screening scores in the same high band as Semi soft smoked cheese mild, mellow, nutty & smoky (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Norseland Inc; these peers cross brands.

Same high-band screening score

Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).

Check the compact label closely

Check the compact label closely

Semi soft smoked cheese mild, mellow, nutty & smoky has a shorter ingredient list than 86% of its Dairies category comparison set. A short list is descriptive, not a safety verdict, so inspect the named ingredients directly.

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0075501972965: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.