First Street nacho cheese sauce

Breakdown

6 ingredients to avoid

First Street nacho cheese sauce scores 15/100 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.

First Street nacho cheese sauce lists 17 ingredients, starting with Whey, Vegetable Oil, Modified Food Starch, Distilled Vinegar and Cheddar Cheese. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 15/100 First Street nacho cheese sauce scores worse than most cheese we have scored. A higher-scoring option in cheese is Organic Valley Organic String Cheese at 97/100.