Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese

Name: Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese
Brand: Cabot Creamery

87Clean

Ingredients · 5

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Common questions

Is Cabot Creamery Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese healthy?

Cabot Creamery Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese scores 87/100 on Tallow — our clean band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in Cabot Creamery Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese?

Cabot Creamery Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese lists 5 ingredients, starting with Pasteurized Fresh Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes and Annatto Natural Color. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Cabot Creamery Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Cabot Creamery Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Cabot Creamery Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese?

Cabot Creamery Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does Cabot Creamery Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese compare to other cheese?

At 87/100 Cabot Creamery Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese sits in our top band, among the better cheese we have scored. A higher-scoring option in cheese is Organic Valley Stringles Organic String Cheese at 97/100.

Is Cabot Creamery Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese organic?

Cabot Creamery Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese is not certified organic in our data.

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