Medium cheddar cheese

Name: Medium cheddar cheese
Brand: Medium Cheddar Cheese

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Ingredients · 4

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Common questions

Is Medium cheddar cheese healthy?

Medium cheddar cheese scores 92/100 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 Medium cheddar cheese?

Medium cheddar cheese lists 4 ingredients, starting with Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt and Enzymes and Annatto [vegetable Color]. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Medium cheddar cheese contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Medium cheddar 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 Medium cheddar cheese?

Medium cheddar cheese is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does Medium cheddar cheese compare to other cheese?

At 92/100 Medium cheddar cheese sits in our top band, among the better cheese we have scored. A higher-scoring option in cheese is Daisy Low Fat Cottage Cheese 2% Milkfat at 94/100.

Is Medium cheddar cheese organic?

Yes. Medium cheddar cheese carries USDA Organic certification, which is worth +5 points in the score above.

Full methodology: how we score products.