Fermented Foods Roundup
We analyzed 2449 products to help you choose the healthiest & safest options.
Detailed Reviews (Page 40)

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

Small Curd Cottage Cheese
Ingredients: Skim milk, cream, nonfat dry milk, lactose, salt, guar gum, mono and diglycerides, xanthan gum, carob bean gum, potassium sorbate and carbon dioxide (maintain freshness), cheese cultures and enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Contains Mono- and Diglycerides

Garlic & herbs soft spreadable cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized cultured milk and cream, garlic, spices, salt, guar gum, carob bean gum.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Original low fat yogurt strawberry banana
Ingredients: Pasteurized grade a reduced fat milk, sugar, strawberries, modified corn starch, banana puree, kosher gelatin, natural flavor, pectin, colored with carmine, yogurt cultures (l. bulgaricus, s. thermophilus, l. acidophilus), vitamin a acetate, vitamin d3.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Sliced Reduced Fat Provolone Natural Cheese With
Ingredients: Pasteurized reduced fat milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, natural smoke flavor, vitamin a palmitate.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Spreadable cheese wedges
Ingredients: [cheddar, swiss, and semisoft cheese (pasteurized cultured milk and part-skim milk, salt, enzymes)], nonfat milk, whey, ultrafiltered nonfat milk, water, milkfat, sodium polyphosphate, citric acid, salt,
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Whole Milk Vanilla Yogurt
Ingredients: Cultured grade a reduced fat milk, cane sugar, natural flavors, pectin.
The Good
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Peach Mango Yogurt
Ingredients: soymilk (filtered water, soybeans), cane sugar, peach, mango, corn starch, contains 1% or less of: peach puree, pectin, tricalcium phosphate, natural flavor, citric acid, dipotassium phosphate, sea salt, live and active cultures, lemon juice concentrate, annatto (for color), vitamin d2, vitamin c ester, mixed tocopherols (to protect flavor),
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Whipped chive
Ingredients: pasteurized milk and cream, skim milk, whey protein concentrate, whey, food starch-modified, salt, vinegar, dried chives, carob bean gum, cider vinegar, xanthan gum, sorbic acid (as a preservative), guar gum, vitamin a palmitate, cheese culture
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

GoGurt
Ingredients: cultured grade a nonfat milk, sugar, modified food starch, contains 1% or less of kosher gelatin, tricalcium phosphate, citric acid, natural flavor, potassium sorbate added to maintain freshness, vegetable juice, fruit and vegetable juice, vitamin a acetate, vitamin d3
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Lite Low-Moisture Part-Skim Mozzarella Cheese
Ingredients: LITE LOW-MOISTURE PART-SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE (CULTURED PASTEURIZED PART-SKIM MILK, SALT, MICROBIAL ENZYMES, VITAMIN A PALMITATE), POTATO STARCH AND CELLULOSE (TO PREVENT CAKING), NATAMYCIN (MOLD INHIBITOR)
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

PARMESAN CHEESE CRISPS
Ingredients: PARMESAN CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART-SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Raw Sharp Cheddar Cheese
Ingredients: Organic grass-fed cultured unpasteurized milk, sea salt, vegetarian enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Grated Parmesan Cheese
Ingredients: Parmesan cheese (pasteurized cultured milk, salt, enzymes), powdered cellulose (added to prevent caking), potassium sorbate (preservative).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Coconutmilk Yogurt Alternative Key Lime
Ingredients: organic coconutmilk (filtered water, organic coconut cream, organic cane sugar, key lime puree, rice starch, contains less than 2% of: calcium citrate, pectin, starch, natural flavors, live cultures, lime juice concentrate, vitamin d2, vitamin b12, cultures include: s, thermophilus, l, rhamnosus, l, acidophilus, l, bulgaricus, bifidobacterium spp,, l, casei, l, paracasei, l, plantarum
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Garden vegetable spread
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk and cream, whey protein concentrate, onions, salt, carrots, green bell peppers, cucumbers, red bell peppers, green bell peppers*, red bell peppers*, carrots*, carob bean gum, guar gum lactic acid**, sorbic acid ( as a preservative)**, natural flavor (contains celery), xanthan gum, vitamin a palmitate, cheese culture
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

strawberry
Ingredients: Pasteurized grade a nonfat milk, strawberries, modified corn starch, sugar, kosher gelatin, citric acid, natural flavor, tricalcium phosphate, potassium sorbate added to maintain freshness, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, red #40, vitamin a acetate, yogurt cultures (l. bulgaricus, s. thermophilus, l. acidophilus), vitamin d3.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Strawberry Chia Cottage Cheese
Ingredients: Organic skim milk, organic whole milk, organic cream, organic strawberries, organic cane sugar, water, pre-hydrated organic chia seeds, organic strawberry flavor, pectin, organic fruit and vegetable juice concentrate, lactic acid, salt, live and active cultures.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Blueberry Almond Milk Yogurt
Ingredients: Almond milk (water, almonds), cane sugar, wild blueberries, organic tapioca starch, locust bean gum, natural flavor, fruit juice, citric acid, xanthan gum, agar, live active cultures: s.thermophilus, l.bulgaricus, l.acidophilus and bifidobacteria.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Mango Passionfruit Kombucha
Ingredients: Organic raw kombucha (filtered water, organic green tea, organic black tea, organic cane sugar, live kombucha culture), tropical juice blend (organic juice concentrates of apple, pear, mango, pineapple, organic mango puree, water, organic flavors, citric acid)
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Key Lime Crumble
Ingredients: Lowfat yogurt (cultured pasteurized nonfat milk, cream, live and active cultures: s. thermophilus, l. bulgaricus, l. acidophilus, bifidus and l. casei), evaporated cane sugar, water, wheat flour, brown sugar, sugar, soybean oil, key lime puree, cocoa butter, key lime juice concentrate, milk, key lime peel, skim milk, fruit pectin, locust bean gum, guar gum, natural flavors, salt, honey, baking soda, cinnamon, white vinegar, organic soy lecithin, fruit juice concentrate and turmeric (for color), lemon juice concentrate.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Organic Mozzarella - Bar
Ingredients: Pasteurized organic milk, cheese cultures, sea salt, vegetable enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Organic Pepper Jack - Bar
Ingredients: Pasteurized organic milk, organic jalapeno peppers, organic bell peppers, cheese cultures, sea salt and vegetable enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Synergy organic cosmic cranberry kombucha
Ingredients: water kefir (purified water, cane sugar, electrolytes, dairy-free kefir and probiotic cultures), guava puree, grapefruit juice, cold pressed lime juice, habanero juice, erythritol, stevia leaf
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

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

Sliced Pepper Jack
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk,jalapeno peppers, cheese culture, salt, enzymes
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

Camembert Soft-Ripened Cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Grated Parmesan-Romano Cheese
Ingredients: Grated parmesan cheese [pasteurized part skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes (rennet)] and grated imported italian pecorino romano cheese [pasteurized sheep's milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes (rennet)].
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Strawberry kefir cultured lowfat milk, strawberry
Ingredients: Pasteurized organic lowfat milk, organic nonfat milk, organic cane sugar, pectin, organic strawberry natural flavor, organic red beet (for color), vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3, live and active cultures.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed
