Fine-Cut 4 Cheese Mexican
Scores 100/100 on FDA SAFFA + CSPI ingredient analysis , with no flagged ingredients identified.
The verdict
Fine-Cut 4 Cheese Mexican by Freedom's Choice scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 16 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 16-component label is layered, beginning with Monterey Jack Cheese, Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Culture. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- flagged ingredients of 16 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 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.
98100988 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Fine-Cut 4 Cheese Mexican label screening desk
Fine-Cut 4 Cheese Mexican screens 100/100 with 0 flagged of 16 parsed ingredients. 5 of 16 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Natamycin). Derived index from public OFF + FDA SAFFA + CSPI data — not an official FDA rating; see methodology. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Mozzarella (0 pts).
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.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
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. Fine-Cut 4 Cheese Mexican 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
Fine-Cut 4 Cheese Mexican lists 16 ingredients on its label
16 82nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 82% of the 21,438 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 120 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 2,801 products (13%)
- 4–6
- 4,714 products (22%)
- 6–8
- 2,694 products (13%)
- 8–10
- 1,997 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 1,879 products (9%)
- 12–14
- 1,735 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 1,640 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 1,263 products (6%)
- 18–20
- 840 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 486 products (2%)
- 22–24
- 303 products (1%)
- 24–26
- 227 products (1%)
- 26–28
- 152 products (1%)
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- 122 products (1%)
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- 115 products (1%)
- 32–34
- 80 products (0%)
- 34–36
- 58 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.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
Full Ingredient List
Monterey jack cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto [vegetable color]), asadero cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), queso quesadilla cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes). anti-caking blend (potato starch, corn starch, calcium sulfate, natamycin [mold inhibitor]).
Other products containing Queso Quesadilla Cheese
Queso Quesadilla Cheese is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 127 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Fine-Cut 4 Cheese Mexican
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Same high-band screening score
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Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (16 on 0842798100988).
Barcode 0842798100988: 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.