Varena Curd cheese bar

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 4 ingredients to avoid

Varėnos pienelis Varena Curd cheese bar 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. 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.

Varėnos pienelis Varena Curd cheese bar lists 11 ingredients, starting with Sugar, Vegetable Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Whole Milk Powder and Flavouring. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 5/100 Varėnos pienelis Varena Curd cheese bar scores worse than most cheese we have scored. A higher-scoring option in cheese is Daisy Low Fat Cottage Cheese 2% Milkfat at 94/100.