Essential Everyday Light Sour Cream

Name: Essential Everyday Light Sour Cream
Brand: Essential Everyday

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Ingredients · 14

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Common questions

Is Essential Everyday Light Sour Cream healthy?

Essential Everyday Light Sour Cream scores 39/100 on Tallow — our avoid 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 Essential Everyday Light Sour Cream?

Essential Everyday Light Sour Cream lists 14 ingredients, starting with Pasteurized Cultured Milk and Cream, Whey Protein Concentrate, Organic Nonfat Dry Milk and Cultures, Food Starch-modified [corn] and Sodium Hexametaphosphate. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Essential Everyday Light Sour Cream contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Essential Everyday Light Sour Cream’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 Essential Everyday Light Sour Cream?

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

How does Essential Everyday Light Sour Cream compare to other cheese?

At 39/100 Essential Everyday Light Sour Cream scores worse than most cheese we have scored. A higher-scoring option in cheese is Angelo & Franco Organic Burrata at 100/100.

Is Essential Everyday Light Sour Cream organic?

Essential Everyday Light Sour Cream is not certified organic in our data.

Full methodology: how we score products.