Cream cheese

92Clean

Ingredients · 6

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Common questions

Is Cream cheese healthy?

Cream cheese scores 92/100 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 Cream cheese?

Cream cheese lists 6 ingredients, starting with Pasteurized Milk and Cream, Cheese Culture, Salt, Carob Bean Gum and Guar Gum. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Cream cheese contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Cream 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 Cream cheese?

Cream cheese is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does Cream cheese compare to other cheese?

At 92/100 Cream cheese sits in our top band, among the better cheese we have scored. A higher-scoring option in cheese is Lifeway Natural Probiotic Farmer Cheese No Salt Added at 97/100.

Is Cream cheese organic?

Yes. Cream cheese carries USDA Organic certification, which is worth +5 points in the score above.

Full methodology: how we score products.