Chees Roundup
We analyzed 2974 products to help you choose the healthiest & safest options.
Detailed Reviews (Page 69)

Probiotic Cottage Cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized organic whole milk, pasteurized organic cream, organic nonfat dry milk, salt, l. acidophilus, b. bifidum and 4 strains of lactic cultures.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Cream Cheese Spread
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, guar gum, citric acid, potassium sorbate (preservative), carob bean gum, xanthan gum.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Original cream cheese
Ingredients: pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, guar gum, carob bean gum, xanthan gum. contains: milk.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Crumbled Feta
Ingredients: Pasteurized Milk, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Microbial Enzymes, Potato Starch (to prevent caking)
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Organic Vegan Mac Cheddar Flavor
Ingredients: organic pasta (organic wheat flour), organic vegan cheddar flavor seasoning (organic rice syrup solids, organic palm oil, sea salt, organic corn starch, organic pea protein, natural flavor, sunflower lecithin, lactic acid, organic annatto extract [for color], silicon dioxide [for anticaking]),
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Cheese With Jalapenos
Ingredients: Sharp cheddar cheese (cultured pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes, annatto color, potato starch, corn starch, powered cellulose, natamycin [a natural mold inhibitor]), mayonnaise (soybean oil, water, whole eggs and egg yolks, vinegar, salt, sugar, lemon juice, natural flavors, calcium disodium edta [to protect quality]), cream cheese (pasteurized cultured milk and cream, salt, stabilizers [xanthan, carob bean, and/or guar gums]), pimentos, jalapenos (jalapeno peppers, water, vinegar, salt), contains 2% or less of: onion, maltodextrin, cultured dextrose, sodium diacetate, salt, nisin preparation, egg white lysozyme, spices, potassium sorbate (preservative).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

All natural steak and cheese burrito
Ingredients: Tortilla (unbleached wheat flour, water, canola oil, cane sugar, sea salt, yeast), beef steak (beef, beef stock, less than 2% of rice starch, sea salt, lemon juice concentrate, vinegar, spices), pinto beans, cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), brown rice, low-moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese ([pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt & enzymes]), water, yellow corn, sour cream (cultured pasteurized grade a cream [from milk], enzymes), onions, tomato paste, red bell peppers, jalapeno, sea salt, red's seasoning blend (spices, garlic powder), corn starch, garlic powder.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Duncan hines, whipped frosting, cream cheese
Ingredients: Sugar, vegetable oil shortening (partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oils, mono and diglycerides, polysorbate 60), water, corn syrup, cream cheese powder (cream cheese [cream milk, skim milk, whey, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], whey, natural flavor, tocopherols and ascorbyl palmitate [to protect flavor]). contains 2% or less of: corn starch, modified food starch, cellulose gum, cellulose gel, modified gum acacia, salt, preservative (potassium sorbate), sodium acid pyrophosphate, citric acid, colored with (titanium dioxide, yellow 5, red 40).
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
- ● High Sugar Content

Feta Cheese
Ingredients: Organic pasteurized milk and nonfat milk, salt, cheese culture, vegetarian enzymes, cac
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Shallot & Chive Spreadable Gourmet Cheese; Shallot & Chive
Ingredients: Pasteurized cultured milk and cream, shallots*, salt, chives*, green onions*, potassium sorbate (preservative).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Mozzarella Shredded Low-Moisture Part-Skim Mozzarella Cheese
Ingredients: Low-moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), potato starch and powdered cellulose added to prevent caking, natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

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

Garden Vegetable Cream Cheese Spread
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk and cream, water, red bell peppers, salt, cheese culture, cauliflower, green bell peppers, cucumbers, celery, carrots, onion, vinegar, onion*, guar gum, sugar, red bell peppers*, potassium sorbate (preservative), green bell pepper*, carrots*, carob bean gum, xanthan gum, spice, cucumbers*, calcium chloride.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

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

Whole Milk Low Moisture Mozzarella Cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Tillamook Pepper Jack
Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized milk,jalapeno peppers, salt, enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Medium cheddar shredded cheese
Ingredients: Cultured milk, salt, enzymes, annatto (color), potato starch (added to prevent caking), natamycin (natural mold inhibitor).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Pizza
Ingredients: Enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, low moisture part skim mozzarella cheese (cultured pasteurized part skim milk, salt, enzymes), tomato paste, yeast, contains 2% or less of: palm oil, sugar, vegetable oil (soybean and/or canola oil), salt, modified food starch, spice, maltodextrin, hydrolyzed soy and corn protein, dried garlic, paprika, wheat starch, l-cysteine hydrochloride, ammonium sulfate, soy lecithin, natural flavor, enzymes (contains wheat), ascorbic acid.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Grated Parmesan Cheese
Ingredients: GRATED PARMESAN CHEESE [ PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES (RENNET)].
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Grated Parmesan Cheese
Ingredients: MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT AND ENZYMES POWDERED CELLULOSE ADDED TO PREVENT CAKING.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Medium white cheese
Ingredients: Cultured milk, salt, enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Sliced Colby Jack Cheese
Ingredients: PASTEURIZED CULTURED MILK, MICROBIAL RENNET, SALT, MICROBIAL ENZYMES, ANNATTO (COLOR)
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Cream Cheese Spread
Ingredients: pasteurized milk and cream, sugar, strawberry puree, whey protein concentrate, whey, dried strawberries, salt, modified food starch, carob bean gum, color added, xanthan gum, guar gum, natural flavor, natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor), vitamin a palmitate, cheese culture
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Strawberry Cheesecake
Ingredients: cultured low-fat milk, cane sugar, strawberries, water, wheat flour, vegetable oils (palm, palm kernel), natural flavors, rice flour, brown sugar, tapioca flour, fruit pectin, skim milk, wheat germ, honey, salt, wheat bran, locust bean gum, vegetable juice concentrate, guar gum, soy lecithin, baking soda, citric acid, calcium carbonate, lemon juice concentrate
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Reduced fat sharp cheddar cheese
Ingredients: REDUCED FAT CHEDDAR CHEESE (CULTURED PASTEURIZED PART-SKIM _MILK_, SALT, MICROBIAL ENZYMES, ANNATTO [VEGETABLE COLOR], VITAMIN A PALMITATE) ANTI-CAKING BLEND (POTATO STARCH, TAPIOCA STARCH, NATAMYCIN [A NATURAL MOLD INHIBITOR)
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Shells and Cheese
Ingredients: enriched macaroni product (wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate [iron], thiamin mononitraté [vitami̇n b1], riboflavin [viťamin b2], folic acid), cheese šauce (whey, canola oil, cheddar cheese [milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], whey protein concéntrate, milk, mi̇lk protein concentrate, sodium phosphate, contains less than 2% of salt, lactic acid, sodium alginate, sorbic acid as a préservative, oleoresin paprika [color], enzymes, cheese culture, annatto extract [color], milkfat, natural flavor). contains: wheat, milk. kraft heinz foods company, chicago, il 60601 kraftheinz this product is
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Just Like Colby Jack Shreds
Ingredients: Filtered Water, Coconut Oil, modified Potato starch, modified Corn starch, Potato Starch, Salt (Sea Salt), Organic Ground Sunflower Kernel, Colby Jack Flavor, Lactic Acid, Olive Extract, Paprika Extract , Beta Carotene, Vitamin B12, Powdered Cellulose
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Four Cheese
Ingredients: TOMATO PUREE (WATER, TOMATO PASTE), DICED TOMATOES IN JUICE (DICED TOMATOES, TOMATO JUICE, CITRIC ACID, CALCIUM CHLORIDE), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: ONIONS, SUGAR, GARLIC, OLIVE OIL, PARMESAN, PROVOLONE, ROMANO CHEESE (CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), RICOTTA CHEESE (MILK [WHOLE AND SKIM], VINEGAR, SALT), SALT, SOYBEAN OIL, SPICES
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Cheese &Garlic croutons
Ingredients: enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), canola and/or sunflower oil (with rosemary extract and ascorbic acid [to preserve freshness]), yeast, sugar, 2% or less of salt, corn syrup solids, whey, romano cheese solids from cow's milk, parmesan, cheddar, and bleu cheeses (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), maltodextrin, autolyzed yeast, garlic powder, dehydrated parsley, autolyzed yeast extract, cultured whey, modified cornstarch, citric acid, turmeric (color), vinegar solids, cream, natural flavor, 4nonfat milk, extractive of annatto (color), enzymes, contains: wheat, milk, may contain tree nuts, 4099100182347
The Good
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Contains Corn Syrup

Goat's Milk Creamy Cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized Goat's Milk, Pasteurized Goat's Cream, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Microbial Rennet. **
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed
