Fermented Foods Roundup
We analyzed 2449 products to help you choose the healthiest & safest options.
Detailed Reviews (Page 48)

Kraft Medium Cheddar Cheese
Ingredients: Cheddar cheese (pasteurized nonfat and milkfat, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto [color]), natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor)
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Wisconsin String Cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Parmesan Cheese Crafted With Fresh Local Milk
Ingredients: Crafted in wisconsin from cultured milk, enzymes, salt, cellulose to prevent caking, natamycin to protect flavor.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Colby Jack
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto (color), natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor).
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

Crumbled feta cheese
Ingredients: Crumbled Mediterranean Herb Feta: Feta Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Microbial Enzymes), Potato Starch (added to prevent caking), Dried Tomato, Mediterranean Seasoning (Sugar, Oregano, Dehydrated Garlic, Spices, Modified Tapioca Starch, Citric Acid, Natural Flavor), Dried Basil
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Cottage Cheese
Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized skim milk and cream, whey protein concentrate, whey, salt, natural flavor, lactase enzyme*, xanthan gum, locust bean gum, guar gum, lactic acid, sorbic acid and carbon dioxide (to maintain freshness) and enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

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

Yoplait Original smooth style strawberry banana
Ingredients: Pasteurized grade a low fat milk, sugar, modified corn starch. contains 1% or less of: kosher gelatin, citric acid, natural flavor, potassium sorbate added to maintain freshness, colored with carmine, yogurt cultures (l. bulgaricus, s. thermophilus, l. acidophilus), vitamin a acetate, vitamin d3.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Medium cheddar
Ingredients: MEDIUM CHEDDAR CHEESE (CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO [COLOR]), POTATO STARCH (ADDED TO PREVENT CAKING), NATAMYCIN (NATURAL MOLD INHIBITOR). CONTAINS: MILK. MADE WITH PRIDE FOR TILLAMOOK COUNTY CREAMERY ASSOCIATION, TILLAMOOK, OR 97141 MADE IN THE USA CONTAINS NO ANIMAL RENNET (VEGETARIAN) CERTIFIED HALAL حلال M ISLAMIC FOOD AND MUTR COUNC
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

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

GREEK FAT-FREE PLAIN YOGURT
Ingredients: Strained yogurt (grade a pasteurized organic nonfat milk, live active yogurt cultures [l. bulgaricus, s. thermophilus, l. acidophilus, bifidus, l. casei]).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

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

Black Raspberry Chip Forzen Greek Yogurt Bars
Ingredients: Nonfat milk, greek yogurt (pasteurized nonfat milk, yogurt cultures), sugar, black raspberry base [water, sugar, raspberry and blackberry purees, fruit and vegetable juice (for color), corn starch, natural flavors, citric acid], milk protein concentrate, white chocolate flake (confectioner's sugar, coconut oil, nonfat dry milk powder, whole milk powder, soy lecithin, natural vanilla flavor), chocolate flake (confectioner's sugar, coconut oil, dutch processed cocoa, cocoa, butter oil, soy lecithin, natural flavor), maltodextrin, cream, natural flavor, locust bean gum, guar gum, fruit and vegetable juice (for color).
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● High Sugar Content

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

Probiotic Drinkable Nonfat Yogurt - Raspberry
Ingredients: Pasteurized skim milk, cane sugar, raspberry, fruit pectin, live active cultures (l. lactis subsp. lactis, l. lactis subsp. cremoris, l. lactis subsp. lactis biovar diacetylactis, leuconostoc subsp. cremoris, s. thermophilus, l. bulgaricus, l. rhamnosus, l. casei, l. acidophilus, bifidobacterium sp.)
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Finest yoghurt
Ingredients: Grade a pasteurized milk, cane sugar, honey, kosher gelatin, pectin, live active cultures (s. thermophilus, l. bulgaricus, l. acidophilus, bifidus, and l. casei.)
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Monterey Jack Cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized organic milk, cheese cultures, sea salt and vegetable enzymes.
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

Mild cheddar
Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized organic milk, salt, microbial enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

100% Grated Parmesan Cheese
Ingredients: Parmesan cheese (pasteurized cultured cow's milk, salt, enzymes), powdered cellulose and corn starch (added to prevent caking) potassium sorbate (added to protect flavor).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

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

Original Vanilla Low Fat Yogurt
Ingredients: cultured grade a low fat milk, water, sugar, fructose, modified food starch, contains less than 1% of modified corn starch, kosher gelatin, natural and artificial flavors, annatto extract (for color), caramel color, citric acid, potassium sorbate (to maintain freshness), sodium citrate, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3, contains active yogurt cultures including l, acidophilus,
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Lowfat yogurt
Ingredients: Cultured grade a low fat milk, sugar, strawberries, fructose, water, modified food starch, contains less than 1% of modified cornstarch, banana puree, natural flavors, gelatin, carrageenan, vegetable juice and beta carotene (for color), sodium citrate, malic acid, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Whipped Strawberry Cream Cheese Spread
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk and cream, water, sugar, strawberries, whey protein concentrate, modified food starch, salt, cheese culture, natural flavor, guar gum, citric acid, fruit and vegetable juice (color), carob bean gum, xanthan gum, honey, natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor).
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

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

Light Greek Banana Crème
Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized grade a nonfat milk, water, fructose, modified food starch, banana puree, natural flavor, malic acid, sucralose, acesulfame potassium, annatto extract color, sodium citrate, vitamin d3.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

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

Original Strawberry Banana
Ingredients: Cultured grade a low fat milk, sugar, strawberries, fructose, water, modified food starch, contains less than 1% of modified corn starch, banana puree, kosher gelatin, natural flavor, annatto extract (for color), red 40, carrageenan, malic acid, potassium sorbate (to maintain freshness), sodium citrate, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)

Honey peach
Ingredients: Cultures pasteurized grade a milk, cream, cane sugar, brown cane sugar, natural flavor, honey, pectin.
The Good
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● High Sugar Content
