Meijer NOVA 4

Mild Cheddar Cheese Shredded

Mild Cheddar Cheese Shredded: 5/5 ingredient safety

Mild Cheddar Cheese Shredded by Meijer 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
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Dairies / Fermented foods / Fermented milk products / Cheeses / Cow cheeses / Cheeses from the United Kingdom / Cheeses from England / Cheddar cheese / Grated cheese

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 Mild Cheddar Cheese Shredded 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 Mild Cheddar Cheese Shredded 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

5
Generally Safe
Average ingredient safety: 5 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
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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

Cultured pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes, color added, anticake (potato starch, powdered cellulose), natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor)

Product Details

Brand
Meijer
Barcode
0041250950677
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States
Stores
Meijer

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Frequently asked questions

How does Mild Cheddar Cheese Shredded's safety score compare to other products?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Mild Cheddar Cheese Shredded's 5/5 average puts it in the safer 85%, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 5/5 ingredient safety score mean?

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 Mild Cheddar Cheese Shredded 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.