Hy-Vee Small Curd Cottage Cheese

Breakdown

4 ingredients to avoid

Hy-Vee Small Curd Cottage Cheese 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.

Hy-Vee Small Curd Cottage Cheese lists 16 ingredients, starting with Cultured Nonfat Milk, Milk, Cream, Of: Whey and Salt. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 15/100 Hy-Vee Small Curd Cottage Cheese scores worse than most cheese we have scored. A higher-scoring option in cheese is Organic Valley Organic String Cheese at 97/100.