Cottage Cheese

Name: Cottage Cheese
Brand: Pilos

95Clean

Ingredients · 1

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Common questions

Is Pilos Cottage Cheese healthy?

Pilos Cottage Cheese scores 95/100 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 Pilos Cottage Cheese?

Pilos Cottage Cheese lists 1 ingredient, starting with 60% Cottage Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Pasteurized Lactic Cultures , Rennet);39.2% Pasteurized Sour Cream; Salt; Milk Proteins. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Pilos Cottage Cheese contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Pilos Cottage 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 Pilos Cottage Cheese?

Pilos Cottage Cheese is NOVA group 3: processed, but not ultra-processed. NOVA runs 1 to 4, where 1 is whole food and 4 is ultra-processed.

How does Pilos Cottage Cheese compare to other cheese?

At 95/100 Pilos Cottage Cheese sits in our top band, among the better cheese we have scored. A higher-scoring option in cheese is Organic Valley Stringles Organic String Cheese at 97/100.

Is Pilos Cottage Cheese organic?

Pilos Cottage Cheese is not certified organic in our data.

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