Whole milk cottage cheese

Breakdown

1 ingredient to avoid

Nordica Whole milk cottage cheese scores 81/100 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.

Nordica Whole milk cottage cheese lists 11 ingredients, starting with Cultured Nonfat Milk, Milk, Whey, Salt and Guar Gum. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 81/100 Nordica Whole milk cottage cheese sits in our top band, among the better cheese we have scored. A higher-scoring option in cheese is Organic Valley Organic String Cheese at 97/100.