Fermented Foods Roundup
We analyzed 2409 products to help you choose the healthiest & safest options.
Finding the perfect Fermented Foods shouldn't feel like a guessing game. At CakeID, we take food transparency seriously. We have analyzed over 2409 products in this category, breaking down every ingredient list to uncover hidden additives, excessive sugar levels, and potential allergens.
Whether you are searching for strictly Vegan options, Gluten-Free snacks, or simply want to avoid high-processed foods, our algorithm ranks products based on a comprehensive Health Score. Below is our definitive ranking of the safest and healthiest Fermented Foods you can buy in 2026, sorted by their ingredient purity.
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Detailed Reviews

Dietz & watson, horseradish cheddar cheese
Ingredients: Aged cheddar cheese(milk, cultures, salt, enzymes), ground horseradish, trisodium citrate, horseradish flavor.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Artisan cheese
Ingredients: Aged cheddar cheese (milk, cultures, salt, enzymes), minced roasted garlic, onion chive seasoning (dehydrated onion, salt, sugar, dehydrated chive, dehydrated parsley, spice, dextrose, spice extractives, trisodium citrate.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Dietz & watson, pasteurized process ny state cheddar cheese, buffalo wing
Ingredients: Aged cheddar cheese (milk, cultures, salt, enzymes), habanero peppers, jalapeno peppers, hot pepper sauce (aged cayenne peppers, distilled vinegar, salt, spices), cayenne peppers, trisodium citrate, annatto.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Asiago Freshly Shredded
Ingredients: Cultured milk, enzymes, salt,cellulose to prevent caking, natamycin to protect flavor.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Grated Parmesan Cheese Alternative
Ingredients: Trisodium phosphate, sodium aluminium phosphate, citric acid, sodium citrate, potassium sorbate, lactic acid, acetic acid, natural flavors, monoglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate, and sorbic acid (to preserve freshness), powdered cellulose added to prevent caking
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Lowfat Buttermilk
Ingredients: Cultured lowfat milk, nonfat milk, modified food starch, sodium citrate, locust bean gum, carrageenan, salt, vitamins a & d
The Good
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Soft-Ripened Goat Cheese Creamy Brie
Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized goat milk, salt and microbial enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Tropical, Fancy Shredded Mild Cheddar Cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes and annatto (vegetable color). potato starch, corn starch, and calcium sulfate added to prevent caking, natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Fancy Shredded Low Moisture Part-Skim Mozzarella Cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, and enzymes, potato starch, corn starch, and calcium sulfate added to prevent caking, natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Tropical, Corn & Cheese Griddle Cake
Ingredients: White corn, water, tropical queso casero cheese (pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes, cheese cultures), margarine, salt.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Oaxaca, Authentic Mexican-Style String Cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, salt, acetic acid, cheese cultures, enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Colombian-Style Cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes, cheese cultures (lactic starter, soy protein).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Tropical, sandwich slices
Ingredients: Water, interesterified soybean oil, modified food starch, whey, salt, contains 2 percent or less of calcium phosphate, carob bean gum, carrageenan, color added, enzyme-modified cheese (milk, water, salt, sodium citrate, sodium phosphate, milkfat, cheese culture, sorbic acid [preservative], enzymes), gelatin, guar gum, natural flavor, sodium phosphate, sorbic acid (preservative), xanthan gum.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Authentic Mexican Crumbling Cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, salt, cheese cultures, and enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Cheese Dip
Ingredients: American cheese (pasteurized milk, salt, cheese cultures, enzymes), water, jalapeno peppers, skim milk, carrots, onions, spices, sorbic acid (to protect flavor).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Parmesan Freshly Grated
Ingredients: Pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, powdered cellulose (to prevent caking).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

WHOLE COTTAGE CHEESE
Ingredients: CULTURED NONFAT MILK, MILK AND CREAM, WHEY, SALT, GUAR GUM, CARRAGEENAN, LOCUST BEAN GUM, CITRIC ACID, POLYSORBATE 80, ACETYLATED MONOGLYCERIDES, NATURAL FLAVOR, CARBON DIOXIDE (TO HELP PROTECT FLAVOR)
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Cheddar Cheese Curds Garlic
Ingredients: Cheese: pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes. garlic: granulated garlic.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Applegate, extra sharp aged cheddar cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes (non-animal), made with vegetable rennet.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Organic mild cheddar cheese, mild
Ingredients: Pasteurized organic milk, cultures, enzymes (non-animal), salt, organic annatto.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Queso Fresco
Ingredients: Pasteurized grade "a" whole cow's milk, salt, *enzymes and culture.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

100% Pure Sheep's Milk Cheese
Ingredients: Unpasteurized sheep's milk, salt, lactic starters, rennet, penicilium roqueforti.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Greek Nonfat Yogurt
Ingredients: Cultured, pasteurized grade A non fat _milk_, _milk_ protein concentrate, organic corn starch, vitamin A acetate, Vitamin D3
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Strawberry Lowfat Yogurt
Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized low fat milk, strawberry flavored base (water, sugar, strawberries, modified corn starch, natural flavor, fruit and vegetable juice concentrate [for color], citric acid, malic acid), sugar, modified corn starch, pectin, carrageenan, tricalcium phosphate.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Cottage Cheese
Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized grade a fat free milk, pasteurized milk and cream, salt, cultured grade a dairy solids (grade a whey, citric acid, and lactic acid culture), and dry grade a whey, maltodextrin, citric acid, guar gum, potassium sorbate (preservative), carrageenan, locust bean gum, polysorbate 80, dextrose, carbon dioxide (to help maintain freshness).
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Lowfat Cottage Cheese With Chives
Ingredients: cultured pasteurized grade a fat free milk, pasteurized milk and cream, salt, tricalcium phosphate, cultured grade a dairy solids (grade a whey, citric acid, and lactic acid cultures), dry grade a whey, maltodextrin, guar gum, citric acid, potassium sorbate (preservative), carrageenan, locust bean gum, polysorbate 80, carbon dioxide (to help maintain freshness), freeze dried chives, vitamin a palmitate,
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

low-moisture part-skim Mozzarella cheese
Ingredients: Low-moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese (cultured pasteurized reduced fat milk, salt, enzymes), anticake (potato starch, powdered cellulose), natamycin (mold inhibtor).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Dairy farms reduced fat colby jack cheese
Ingredients: Reduced fat colby cheese (cultured pasteurized reduced fat milk, salt, enzymes, annatto [color], vitamin a palmitate), reduced fat monterey jack cheese (cultured pasteurized reduced fat milk, salt, enzymes, vitamin a palmitate), anticake (potato starch, c
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Light low-moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, vitamin a palmitate.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed
