Colby Jack shredded cheese
Colby Jack shredded cheese by Fareway has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 1 of 1 ingredient tracked for Colby Jack shredded cheese has a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Colby Jack shredded cheese sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
5 Top 15% higher than 85% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Full Ingredients List
Colby cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto color), Monterey Jack cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), potato starch added to prevent caking, natamycin
Product Details
- Brand
- Fareway
- Barcode
- 0021333830386
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Colby Jack shredded cheese above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Colby Jack shredded cheese's 5/5 average puts it in the safer 85%, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 5/5 rating on Colby Jack shredded cheese?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 5/5 average places Colby Jack shredded cheese in the Generally Safe tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.