Kraft NOVA 3

Mozzarella Cheese

Mozzarella Cheese: 5/5 ingredient safety

Mozzarella Cheese by Kraft 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 3

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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 Mozzarella 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 Mozzarella 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

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

3
NOVA Group 3
Processed foods

Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.

Full Ingredients List

low-moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), modified cornstarch added to prevent caking, natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor)

Product Details

Brand
Kraft
Barcode
0021000055166
NOVA Group
3 — Processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Mozzarella Cheese rank on ingredient safety?

With an average ingredient safety score of 5/5, Mozzarella Cheese sits ahead of 85% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 5/5 ingredient safety score mean?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Mozzarella Cheese's 5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.