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Fermented Foods Roundup

We analyzed 2461 products to help you choose the healthiest & safest options.

Detailed Reviews (Page 28)

Calories
368
Protein
21g
Great Value

Cheese

Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto color.

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
368
Protein
21g
Sargento

COLBY-PEPPER JACK SLICED COLBY-JACK CHEESE WITH JALAPEÑO & HABANERO PEPPERS

Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, hot peppers (jalapeno peppers, habanero peppers), cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto (vegetable color).

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
200
Sugar
0g
Unknown

Original Mediterranean Labne Kefir Cheese

Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized grade a milk and cream, condensed skim milk, whey protein concentrate, pectin and salt.

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
80
Protein
11g
Lucerne

Lowfat Cottage Cheese

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, lactic acid culture), dry grade a whey, maltodextrin, guar gum, citric acid, potassium sorbate (preservative), carrageenan, locust bean gum, polysorbate 80, carbon dioxide (to help maintain freshness), vitamin a palmitate.

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Low Sugar

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
421
Protein
26g
Sargento

Natural Cheese Sharp Cheddar

Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto (vegetable color).

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
286
Protein
19g
Borden

American Melts

Ingredients: Milk, milk protein concentrate, cream, whey, sodium citrate, calcium phosphate, water, contains less than 2% of gelatin, salt, sodium phosphate, sorbic acid (preservative), color added, propionic acid, lactic acid, vitamin d3, vitamin a palmitate, enzymes, cheese culture

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Low Sugar

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
321
Protein
21g
El Mexicano

Oaxaca Queso Part Skim Milk Cheese Melting Cheese

Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized part skim milk, salt, and enzymes.

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
393
Protein
21g
Lucerne

Sharp Cheddar Cheese

Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes and annatto (vegetable color).

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
348
Protein
22g
Lucerne Dairy Farms

Muenster Cheese Slices

Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto (color).

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
88
Sugar
4g
Prairie Farms

Cottage Cheese

Ingredients: Skim milk, milk, cream, lactose, salt, stabilizer (maltodextrin, guar gum, mono and diglycerides, xanthan gum, carrageenan, carob bean gum), citric acid, carbon dioxide and potassium sorbate (maintain freshness), cheese cultures.

The Good

  • Low Sugar

The Bad

  • Contains Mono- and Diglycerides
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Calories
286
Protein
29g
Sargento

4 Cheese Mexican Shredded Reduced Fat Cheese

Ingredients: Reduced fat monterey jack cheese (pasteurized reduced fat milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, vitamin a palmitate), reduced fat cheddar cheese [pasteurized reduced fat milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto (vegetable color), vitamin a palmitate], reduced fat queso quesadilla cheese (pasteurized reduced fat milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, vitamin a palmitate), reduced fat asadero cheese [pasteurized reduced fat milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto (vegetable color), vitamin a palmitate], potato starch and powdered cellulose (to prevent caking), natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor).

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
80
Protein
11g
Great Value

Lowfat Cottage Cheese Small Curd 2% Milkfat

Ingredients: Cultured nonfat milk, milk, contains less than 2% of: cream, salt, natural and artificial flavors, whey, maltodextrin, guar gum, citric acid, carrageenan, mono and diglycerides, locust bean gum, vitamin a palmitate, carbon dioxide (to preserve freshness), enzyme.

The Good

  • Low Sugar

The Bad

  • Contains Mono- and Diglycerides
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Calories
400
Protein
40g
Buitoni

Freshly shredded parmesan cheese

Ingredients: Parmesan cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), natamycin to protect flavor.

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
333
Protein
17g
Unknown

Swiss Almond Swiss Flavor Snack Spread

Ingredients: Cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), water, whey, soybean oil, less than 2% almonds, natural flavor, corn syrup solids, sorbic acid (as a preservative), xanthan gum.

The Good

  • Convenient Snack

The Bad

  • Contains Corn Syrup
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Calories
387
Protein
26g
Cabot Creamery

Vermont Sharp Cheddar Cheese

Ingredients: Fresh pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes.

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
357
Protein
25g
Lucerne Dairy Farms,Imperial Sugar, Lucerne

Monterey Jack Cheese

Ingredients: CULTURED PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES.

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
321
Protein
21g
La Vaquita, Inc.

Queso Fresco Mexicano

Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized cow's milk, salt, enzymes, natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor).

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
393
Protein
25g
Crystal Farm

CRYSTAL FARMS MEDIUM CHEDDAR

Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto color.

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
429
Protein
21g
Tillamook

Farmstyle Cut

Ingredients: Cultured milk, salt, enzymes, potato starch (added to prevent caking), natamycin (natural mold inhibitor).

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
67
Sugar
7g
siggi's

simple ingredient smoothie MIXED BERRIES

Ingredients: whole milk, blueberries, cane sugar, fruit pectin, live active cultures

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
357
Protein
18g
Unknown

Pasteurized Process Cheese Product

Ingredients: Pasteurized milk and skim milk, whey, cream, sodium citrate (emulsifier), corn starch, less than 2% of cultures, enzymes, salt, sodium phosphate, sorbic acid (to protect flavor).

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
393
Protein
21g
Lucerne

Sharp Cheddar Cheese Slices

Ingredients: CULTURED PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO (COLOR).

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
91
Sugar
9g
Stonyfield Organic

Organic Kids Blueberry

Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized organic reduced fat milk, organic cane sugar, organic blueberry juice from concentrate, natural flavor, pectin, organic carrot juice concentrate (for color), vitamin d3.

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
280
Protein
16g
Ile de France

Brie Bites

Ingredients: PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM, SALT, CHEESE CULTURES, ENZYMES, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, PENICILLIUM CANDIDUM (HARMLESS WHITE MOLD). CONTAINS: MILK.

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Low Sugar
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
304
Protein
22g
H-E-B

Sliced Mozarella

Ingredients: Low-moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes).

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free
  • Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
97
Protein
11g
Great Value

Cottage Cheese small curd

Ingredients: Cultured nonfat milk, milk, cream, contains less than 2% of: nonfat milk, whey, salt, maltodextrin, citric acid, carrageenan, mono - and diglycerides, locust bean gum, guar gum, natural flavors, carbon dioxide (to preserve freshness), enzyme.

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Low Sugar

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
100
Protein
12g
Shamrock Farms

Cottage Cheese Original

Ingredients: Cultured nonfat milk and milk, salt, guar gum, xanthan gum, mono and diglycerides, carrageenan, carob bean gum, sorbic acid, citric acid and carbon dioxide (to help protect flavor).

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Low Sugar

The Bad

  • Contains Mono- and Diglycerides
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Calories
241
Protein
11g
Publix

Seafood Cheese Spread

Ingredients: Cream cheese (pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, carob bean gum), imitation crabmeat (fish protein of pollock, whiting, cod and/or threadtin bream, sugar, polyphosphate), water, corn/wheat starch, tapioca starch, sugar, sorbitol, salt, soybean oil, mirin (flavoring substances, water, glucose syrup ethyl alcohol), crab extract (natural flavoring, glucose syrup, water, salt, monosodium glutamate, ribonucleotides, potassium sorbate, xanthan gum), crab flavor (natural flavor, flavoring substances, water, glucose syrup, ethyl alcohol, glycerine, ribonucleotides, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate), calcium carbonate, carmine and paprika], mayonnaise [soybean and/or canola oil, egg yolks, vinegar, water, salt, sugar, spices and oleoresin paprika, spice extract (for freshness)], imitation cheddar cheese (water, hydrogenated soybean oil, casein, modified food starch, sodium aluminum phosphate, salt, maltodextrin, lactic acid, guar gum, tricalcium phosphate, calcium propionate, citric acid, sodium citrate, disodium phosphate, calcium sulfate, artificial coloring, artificial flavoring, anti-caking agent), cheddar cheese sauce [water, cheese whey, aged cheddar cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes, annatto color), partially hydrogenated soybean oil, corn starch-modified, contains 2% or less of sodium phosphate, salt, yeast extract, monoglycerides, lactic acid, annatto color, fd & c yellow no.6, maltodextrin, natural flavor], pimientos (pimientos, water, and citric acid), corn syrup, water, dried vinegar, natural butter flavor, granulated garlic, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, salt, nonfat dried milk, spice extract, parsley, lemon juice concentrate and spices.

The Good

  • Sugar Free

The Bad

  • Contains Corn Syrup
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Calories
393
Protein
25g
Unknown

Colby jack cheese

Ingredients: Colby cheese (cultured pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes, annatto [color]), monterey jack cheese (cultured pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes), potato starch and powdered cellulose added to prevent caking, natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor).

The Good

  • Excellent Health Score
  • Sugar Free

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Calories
89
Sugar
12g
Yoplait

Low-fat strawberry & cotton candy yogurt value

Ingredients: strawberry : cultured pasteurized grade a low fat milk, sugar, modified corn starch, contains 1% or less of: kosher gelatin, vegetable juice (for color), natural flavor, potassium sorbate added to maintain freshness, vitamin a acetate, vitamin d3,cotton candy : cultured pasteurized grade a low fat milk, sugar, modified corn starch, contains 1% or less of: kosher gelatin, natural flavor, potassium sorbate added to maintain freshness, spirulina extract (for color), vitamin a acetate, vitamin d3,

The Good

  • Convenient Snack

The Bad

  • Ultra Processed
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Frequently Asked Questions

Are products in the Fermented Foods category always vegan?+
Not necessarily. We analyzed over 2461 products in the Fermented Foods category on CakeID. While some are plant-based, many contain hidden animal ingredients like milk powder, whey, or gelatin. Always check the "Is Vegan" status on our product pages.
How does CakeID rank the best Fermented Foods?+
We rank Fermented Foods based on their nutritional value, ingredient cleanliness (fewer additives), and vegan compatibility. Products with lower sugar and simpler ingredients rank higher.
Can I find low-calorie Fermented Foods here?+
Yes! Our list highlights the nutritional details of each product. Look for the "Calories" badge on the product cards above to find low-calorie options.
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