---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 133.176"
title: "21"
number: "133.176"
heading: "Pasteurized cheese spread with fruits, vegetables, or meats."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/133.176"
---

# §133.176. Pasteurized cheese spread with fruits, vegetables, or meats.

- (a) Pasteurized cheese spread with fruits, vegetables, or meats, or mixtures of these is a food which conforms to the definition and standard of identity, and is subject to the requirements for label statement of ingredients, prescribed for pasteurized cheese spread by [§ 133.175](/cfr/21/133.175.md), except that:
  - (1) **It contains one or any mixture of two or more of the following—** Any properly prepared cooked, canned, or dried fruit; any properly prepared cooked, canned, or dried vegetable; any properly prepared cooked or canned meat.
  - (2) When the added fruits, vegetables, or meats contain fat, the method prescribed for the determination of fat by [§ 133.5(b)](/cfr/21/133.5.md?p=b) is not applicable.
- (b) The name of a pasteurized cheese spread with fruits, vegetables, or meats is “Pasteurized cheese spread with ______”, the blank being filled in with the name or names of the fruits, vegetables, or meats used, in order of predominance by weight.

## Notes

### Amendments

[42 FR 14366, Mar. 15, 1977, as amended at 49 FR 10095, Mar. 19, 1984; 58 FR 2894, Jan. 6, 1993]

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 321, 341, 343, 348, 371, 379e.

### Amendments

[42 FR 14366, Mar. 15, 1977, as amended at 49 FR 10095, Mar. 19, 1984; 58 FR 2894, Jan. 6, 1993]