Fermented Foods Roundup
We analyzed 2461 products to help you choose the healthiest & safest options.
Detailed Reviews (Page 36)

Good & gather mexican style classic shredded
Ingredients: Reduced fat monterey jack cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes [microbial], vitamin a palmitate), reduced fat cheddar cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes [microbial], annatto [vegetable color], vitamin a palmitate), reduced fat asadero cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes [microbial], vitamin a palmitate), reduced fat queso quesadilla cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes [microbial], vitamin a palmitate), anti-caking blend (potato starch, corn starch, cellulose, natamycin [a natural mold inhibitor]).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Traditional raspberry skyr
Ingredients: Skyr (pasteurized low-fat milk, live and active cultures), raspberries, cane sugar, pectin, locust bean gum, natural flavor, fruit and vegetable juice concentrate (for color). live and active cultures: heirloom skyr cultures (streptococcus thermophilus islandicus), lactobacillus bulgaricus, bifidobacterium.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Organic cream cheese spread
Ingredients: Organic pasteurized milk and cream, organic whey, cheese culture, salt, organic carob bean gum.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Strawberry finest yoghurt, strawberry
Ingredients: Grade a pasteurized whole milk, fruit puree [strawberries, sugar, water, natural flavor, pectin, locust bean gum, fruit and vegetable juice (for color), lemon juice concentrate], cane sugar, honey, kosher gelatin, pectin, live active cultures (s. thermophilus, l. bulgaricus, l. acidophilus, bifidus, l. casei).
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Shredded Mild Cheddar Cheese
Ingredients: Cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, annatto [vegetable color]). anti-caking blend (potato starch, corn starch, calcium sulfate, natamycin [a natural mold inhibitor]).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Mild Cheddar Shredded Fat Free Mild Cheddar Cheese
Ingredients: Fat free cheddar cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk**, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto color, vitamin a palmitate), 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

Finely shredded Mexican style four cheese blend
Ingredients: monterey jack cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto [color]), quesadilla cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), asadero cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, 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

Premium Dip, Artichoke & Parmesan
Ingredients: Mayonnaise (soybean oil, water, egg yolks, vinegar, salt), artichokes (artichoke, water, salt, citric acid, ascorbic acid), sour cream (pasteurized cultured cream [milk]), parmesan cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese culutre, salt, enzymes), water, modified corn starch, potassium sorbate (preservative), sodium benzoate (preservative), xanthan gum, lemon juice concentrate, citric acid.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Contains Sodium Benzoate

Italian Style
Ingredients: Low-moisture part-skim mozzarella, provolone with smoke flavor added, parmesan, romano (made from cow's milk), fontina and asiago fresh cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, smoke flavor), potato starch and powdered cellulose added to prevent caking, natamycin (mold inhibitor).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Mozzarella Sticks with Marinara Sauce
Ingredients: Cheese stick: part-skim mozzarella cheese (cultured part-skim milk, salt, enzymes), wheat flour, water, enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), soybean oil, modified food starch, contains less than 2% of: salt, dextrose, egg whites, dried garlic, spices, caramel (color), paprika extract, sugar, yeast, yellow corn flour, methylcellulose, leavening (sodium bicarbonate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate), nonfat milk, onion powder, sodium alginate, marinara sauce: water, tomato paste, white distilled vinegar, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, contains less than 2% of: salt, spices, garlic powder, onion powder, potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate (preservatives).
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Contains High Fructose Corn Syrup

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

Reduced Fat Pasteurized Prepared Cheese
Ingredients: Milk, skim milk, whey, milk protein concentrate, buttermilk, sodium citrate, calcium phosphate, contains 2% or less of salt, maltodextrin, sodium phosphate, lactic acid, sorbic acid (preservative), xanthan gum, locust bean gum, guar gum, natural flavor, color added, cheese cultures, enzymes, vitamin a palmitate
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Vermont Seriously Sharp White Cheddar Cheese
Ingredients: Fresh pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Organic Sour Cream
Ingredients: Cultured organic milk, organic cream, microbial enzymes (non-animal).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Yoplait Light Strawberry Yogurt with Granola 2 count
Ingredients: Light yogurt: cultured pasteurized grade a nonfat milk, strawberries, sugar, modified corn starch, corn starch, kosher gelatin, natural and artificial flavor, vegetable juice (for color), lemon juice concentrate, sucralose, acesulfame potassium, vitamin a acetate, vitamin d3. granola: rolled oats, sugar, crisp rice (milled rice, sugar, salt, corn syrup, barley malt), canola oil, whole oat flour, molasses, honey, salt, natural flavor, soy lecithin.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Corn Syrup

Sharp cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto (color), natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Cottage Cheese Small Curd
Ingredients: Cultured skim milk, milk, nonfat milk, salt, locust bean gum, carrageenan, carbon dioxide (to preserve freshness), vitamin a palmitate, enzymes.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Yoplait Yogurt
Ingredients: Strawberry banana : 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. 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.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

CARBmaster Lowfat Yogurt Vanilla
Ingredients: Water, milk protein concentrate, milk protein isolate, cream skim milk, modified corn starch, glycerin, natural flavor, salt, gelatin, tricalcium phosphate, pectin, agar, cultured dextrose, sucralose, acesulfame potassium, lactase enzyme, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3, active cultured with l. acidophilus and b. bifidum.
The Good
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

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

Plain unsweetened kefir, plain
Ingredients: Pasteurized whole milk, nonfat dry milk, pectin, live & active cultures (lactobacillus lactis, lactobacillus rhamnosus, streptococcus diacetylactis, lactobacillus plantarum, lactobacillus casei, saccharomyces florentinus, leuconostoc cremoris, bifidobacte
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Organic Lowfat Cottage Cheese 2% Milkfat
Ingredients: organic nonfat milk, organic milk, organic cream, salt, tricalcium phosphate, citric acid, locust bean gum, agar, carrageenan, carbon dioxide, active cultures (lactobacillus bulgaricus, streptococcus thermophilus, lactobacillus acidophilus, bifidobacterium lactis, lactococcus cremoris, lactococcus lactis, streptococcus thermophilus), vitamin a palmitate, microbial enzyme
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Dutch Sliced Goat's Milk Cheese
Ingredients: PASTEURIZED GOAT'S MILK, SALT, CHEESE CULTURE (MILK), MICROBIAL ENZYME. CONTAINS MILK. 0098 8247 ●
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Israeli Feta
Ingredients: FETA CHEESE (PASTEURIZED SHEEP'S MILK, CHEESE CULTURES [CULTURES, SKIM MILK], MICROBIAL ENZYMES), BRINE (WATER, SALT, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, CITRIC ACID [ACIDIFIER])
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Key lime french style yogurt
Ingredients: Pasteurized grade a milk, cane sugar, key limes, pectin, lime juice concentrate, natural flavor, yogurt cultures (l. bulgaricus, s. thermophilus), turmeric (for color).
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Fiesta Blend
Ingredients: Monterey jack, cheddar, queso quesadilla and asadero cheeses (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto color [in cheddar cheese]), 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

Grated parmesan
Ingredients: parmesan, romano made from cow's milk and asiago cheeses (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes). cellulose powder to prevent caking. potassium sorbate to protect flavor contains: milk. kraft heinz foods company chicago, il 60601
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Organic Creamy Cashew Strawberry
Ingredients: organic cashew base (filtered water, organic cashews), organic cane sugar, organic strawberries, organic tapioca starch, organic locust bean gum, pectin, natural flavor, vegetable juice (for color), organic lemon juice concentrate, organic coconut cream (organic coconut, water), live active cultures (streptococcus thermophilus, lactobacillus bulgaricus, l, acidophilus, bifidobacterium bifidus, l, lactis, l, plantarum),
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Cottage cheese
Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized nonfat milk, nonfat milk, contains less than 2% of: cream*, whey, maltodextrin, artificial color**, guar gum, citric acid, carrageenan, mono and diglycerides*, locust bean gum, salt, natural flavor, vitamin a palmitate, enzyme, potassium sorbate and carbon dioxide (to preserve freshness).
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Contains Mono- and Diglycerides

Whole Milk Yogurt Vanilla
Ingredients: CULTURED PASTEURIZED ORGANIC WHOLE MILK, ORGANIC CANE SUGAR, ORGANIC NATURAL VANILLA FLAVOR, PECTIN, VITAMIN D3, CONTAINS LIVE AND ACTIVE CULTURES: S THERMOPHILUS, L BULGARICUS, L ACIDOPHILUS, BIFIDUS, L PARACASEI,LRHAMNOSUS.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed
