Hatch Chile Cream Cheese Dip

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 3 ingredients to avoid

Hatch Chile Cream Cheese Dip 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. Per serving it carries 0g fiber, 1g protein and 1g sugar. 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.

Hatch Chile Cream Cheese Dip lists 20 ingredients, starting with Cream Cheese, Pasteurized Milk, Canola Oil, Cheese Culture and Mono and Diglycerides. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

60 kcal per serving, or 188 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Hatch Chile Cream Cheese Dip on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 5/100 Hatch Chile Cream Cheese Dip 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.