1% Cottage Cheese

Name: 1% Cottage Cheese
Brand: Great Value

74Clean

Ingredients · 2

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Common questions

Is Great Value 1% Cottage Cheese healthy?

Great Value 1% Cottage Cheese scores 74/100 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 Great Value 1% Cottage Cheese?

Great Value 1% Cottage Cheese lists 2 ingredients, starting with Milk Ingredients ⚫ Salt Citric Acid Guar Gum Mono - and Diglycerides and Xanthan Gum Locust Bean Gum Bacterial Culture Microbial Enzyme Carbon ⚫ Dioxide. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Great Value 1% Cottage Cheese contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Great Value 1% Cottage 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 Great Value 1% Cottage Cheese?

Great Value 1% Cottage Cheese is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does Great Value 1% Cottage Cheese compare to other cheese?

At 74/100 Great Value 1% Cottage 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 Great Value 1% Cottage Cheese organic?

Great Value 1% Cottage Cheese is not certified organic in our data.

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