Harris Teeter Cottage Cheese (0% Milkfat)

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Ultra-processed · 4 ingredients to avoid

Harris Teeter Cottage Cheese (0% Milkfat) scores 5/100 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.

Harris Teeter Cottage Cheese (0% Milkfat) lists 16 ingredients, starting with Cultured Pasteurized Part-skim Milk, Whey Protein Concentrate, Whey, Nonfat Milk Solids and Maltodextrin. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 5/100 Harris Teeter Cottage Cheese (0% Milkfat) scores worse than most cheese we have scored. A higher-scoring option in cheese is Breakstone's Cottage Cheese Small Curd 4% Milkfat at 100/100.