Chees Roundup
We analyzed 2974 products to help you choose the healthiest & safest options.
Detailed Reviews (Page 37)

Snack Bars Mild Cheddar
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes (microbial), annatto (vegetable color).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Habanero Jack Classic
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, hot peppers (jalapeno and habanero peppers), cheese culture, salt, enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Extra Sharp White Cheddar
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes (microbial).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Good & gather colby jack a blend of reduced fat
Ingredients: Pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes (microbial), annatto (vegetable color), vitamin a palmitate.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Colby Jack
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes (microbial), annatto (vegetable color).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Sharp cheddar cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes (microbial), annatto (vegetable color).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Cheddar Jack
Ingredients: Cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes [microbial], annatto [vegetable color]), monterey jack cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes [microbial]), anti-caking blend (potato starch, corn starch, powdered cellulose, natamycin [a natural mold inhibitor]).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Low moisture part-skim mozzarella
Ingredients: Pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes (microbial).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Signature Meat Lovers Egg, Sausage, Bacon & Cheese Burritos
Ingredients: Flour tortilla (wheat flour (enriched with niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, vegetable oil (soybean, canola, palm and/or corn oil), wheat gluten, sugar, salt, dough conditioners (yeast, wheat gluten, sugar, guar gum, modified food starch, sodium metabisulfite), scrambled eggs (pasteurized whole eggs, nonfat milk, soybean oil, modified food starch, salt, xanthan gum, citric acid, butter flavor (maltodextrin, natural butter flavor, annatto and turmeric [added for color]), spice and/or liquid pepper extract), pork sausage (pork, water, salt, spices, corn syrup solids, sugar, autolyzed yeast extract, spice extractive), water, cheese sauce (water, cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto color), modified corn starch, cream cheese (pasteurized cultured milk and cream, salt, stabilizers [xanthan, locust bean and/or guar gums]), canola oil, contains less than 2% of nonfat dry milk, whey, sodium phosphate, salt, corn starch, lactic acid, cellulose gum, butter oil, sugar, yeast extract, paprika extract (color), natural flavors, annatto extract (color), onion, monterey jack cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), potatoes (with sea salt, canola oil), tomatoes (with juice, citric acid, calcium chloride), bacon (cured with water, salt, sugar, smoke flavoring, sodium phosphates, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite), contains 2% or less modified corn starch, jalapeno peppers (with salt, acetic acid, water, calcium chloride), salt, spice.
The Good
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Contains Corn Syrup

Goat Cheddar Cheese Macaroni & Cheese Dinner
Ingredients: Enriched macaroni product [semolina (wheat), niacin, iron (ferrous sulfate), thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], maltodextrin, goat cheddar cheese* (pasteurized cultured whole goat milk, salt, enzymes), goat milk powder, goat whey, sea salt, corn starch, sugar, natural flavors, lactic acid powder, organic annatto extract (color), safflower oil.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Cracker Cut Slices Pepper Jack Cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, red and green jalapeno peppers, cheese culture, salt, enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Cheesy scalloped potatoes with chives
Ingredients: Potatoes, whole milk, sour cream (pasteurized cultured cream [milk], enzymes), sharp cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, annatto color, natamycin [mold inhibitor]), butter (sweet cream, salt), parmesan cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), modified corn starch, salt, natural flavoring (yeast extract, salt), onion powder, white pepper, nisin preparation (salt, nisin (antimicrobial]), dried chives.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Mac 'n' cheese
Ingredients: Cooked macaroni (semolina wheat flour [enriched with niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], egg white), whole milk, water, pasteurized process cheese spread (cheddar and colby cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], water, whey, sodium phosphate, whey protein concentrate, skim milk, milk fat, salt, carrageenan, cellulose gum), cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, annatto color, natamycin [mold inhibitor], butter (sweet cream, salt), parmesan cheese (part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), modified corn starch, cheddar club cheese (cheddar cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], water, salt, annatto color), salt, annatto color, nisin preparation (salt, nisin [antimicrobial]).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Garlic & Herb Goat Cheese
Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized goat's milk, salt, garlic powder, marjoram, oregano, enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Goat Cheese Crumbles
Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized goat's milk, powdered cellulose (to prevent caking), salt, enzymes, natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Smokey cheese & bacon mashed potatoes
Ingredients: Idaho potatoes, vegetable oil (coconut, sunflower, soybean), salt, cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), nonfat dry milk, sugar, maltodextrin, whey, textured vegetable protein (soy protein concentrate, caramel color), buttermilk, natural flavor (including smoke), monoglycerides, calcium stearoyl lactylate, yeast extract, paprika extract (color), annatto extract (color). freshness preserved by sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bisulfite, mixed tocopherols and citric acid.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Finely shredded parmesan cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, anti-caking blend (potato starch, cornstarch, calcium sulfate, natamycin [a natural mold inhibitor]).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Finely shredded 4 cheese mexican blend monterey jack
Ingredients: Monterey jack cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto [vegetable color]), asadero cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), queso quesadilla cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), anti-caking blend (potato starch, cornstarch, calcium sulfate, natamycin [mold inhibitor]).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

mozerella cheese
Ingredients: LOW-MOISTURE PART-SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE PASTEURIZED PART-SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES). ANTI-CAKING BLEND (POTATO STARCH, TAPIOCA STARCH, NATAMYCIN [MOLD INHIBITOR]).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

American pasteurized process cheese food
Ingredients: American cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), water, cream, whey, sodium citrate, tricalcium phosphate, salt, sorbic acid (preservative), lactic acid, color added.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Baked cheddar cheese balls
Ingredients: Corn meal, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: cottonseed oil, corn oil, canola oil, sunflower oil, or safflower oil), whey, maltodextrin, cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), milkfat, whey protein concentra
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Raspberry cream cheese cake bites
Ingredients: Sugar, bleached enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cream cheese (milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, carob bean gum, xanthan gum, guar gum), whole eggs, soybean oil, water, margarine (intere
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● High Sugar Content

Garlic & dill cheese curds
Ingredients: Pasteurized whole milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, garlic powder, onion powder, dill, spices.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Deli style muenster sliced cheese
Ingredients: PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO EXTRACT (COLOR).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Three cheese bites
Ingredients: Dough: cauliflower, rice flour, water, rice starch, brown rice flour, tapioca starch, nonfat milk, palm oil, canola oil, sugar, xanthan gum, guar gum, salt filling: mozzarella cheese (pasteurized milk, cultures, salt, enzymes), tomato paste (tomatoes), canola oil, rice starch, sharp provolone cheese (pasteurized milk, cultures, salt, enzymes), romano cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cultures, salt, enzymes), basil, salt, black pepper
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Shredded parmesan cheese
Ingredients: Parmesan cheese (pasteurized part skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), powdered cellulose to prevent caking, natamycin to protect flavor.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Sharp cheddar cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto color.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Cheese and Caramel Mix
Ingredients: Caramel corn [brown sugar, cane sugar, popcorn, salted butter (pasteurized sweet cream, salt), brown rice syrup, sunflower and/or safflower oil, sea salt, soy lecithin, baking soda]. cheese corn [popcorn, sunflower and/or safflower oil, cheddar cheese (pa
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed
