Food City Nutri-Score D NOVA 4

Finely shredded Mexican style four cheese blend

Finely shredded Mexican style four cheese blend: 4.5/5 ingredient safety

Finely shredded Mexican style four cheese blend by Food City has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.

  • Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Dairies / Fermented foods / Fermented milk products / Cheeses

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. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for Finely shredded Mexican style four cheese blend have 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 Finely shredded Mexican style four cheese blend sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% 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

4.5
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4.5 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
2
Low Risk / Safe
D
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.

Full Ingredients List

monterey jack cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto [color]), quesadilla cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), asadero cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), potato starch, corn starch and calcium sulfate added to prevent caking, natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor),

Product Details

Barcode
0036800124349
Nutri-Score
Grade D
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Finely shredded Mexican style four cheese blend's safety score compare to other products?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Finely shredded Mexican style four cheese blend's 4.5/5 average puts it in the safer 71%, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 4.5/5 rating on Finely shredded Mexican style four cheese blend?

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 4.5/5 average places Finely shredded Mexican style four cheese blend in the Low Risk 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.