Fermented Milk Products Roundup
We analyzed 2340 products to help you choose the healthiest & safest options.
Detailed Reviews (Page 34)

Viva
Ingredients: CULTURED NONFAT MILK, MILK, LESS THAN 2% OF WHEY, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, GUAR GUM, CITRIC ACID, CARRAGEENAN, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, LOCUST BEAN GUM, POLYSORBATE 80, CREAM, NONFAT MILK, POTASSIUM SORBATE AND CARBON DIOXIDE (PRESERVATIVES), PHOSPHORIC ACID, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, ENZYMES.
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Contains Phosphoric Acid

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

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

Fat Free Natural Cheddar Cheese
Ingredients: nonfat cheddar cheese (pasteurized skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, yeast*, natural flavor*, colored with annatto and titanium dioxide, vitamin a palmitate), modified cornstarch added to prevent caking, natamycin (anatural mold inhibitor) *ingredient not in regular cheddar cheese contains: milk.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Contains Titanium Dioxide

EXTRA SHARP CHEDDAR cheese
Ingredients: pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, microbial enzymes, annatto (vegetable color).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Original Velveeta
Ingredients: skim milk, canola oil, milk protein concentrate, sodium phosphate, modified food starch, whey, salt, calcium phosphate, whey protein concentrate, milkfat, sodium alginate, apocarotenal, annatto color, cheese culture, vitamin a palmitate, contains less than 2% of protein concentrate, maltodextrin, lactic acid, sorbic acid as a preservative, sodium citrate, enzymes
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Extra Sharp White Cheddar
Ingredients: cultured milk, salt, enzymes. contains: milk. made with pride by tillamook county creamery association, tillamook, or 97141 made in the usa oma contains no animal rennet (vegetarian) keep refrigerated best fsed by date stamped on package
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

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

100% Grass-Fed Probiotic Whole Milk Yogurt Vanilla
Ingredients: Cultured organic pasteurized whole milk, organic pasteurized nonfat milk, organic cane sugar, organic vanilla extract, organic vanilla flavor.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Harmless harvest stawbery vegan per website
Ingredients: Organic coconutmilk (water, organic coconut meat*), organic cane sugar, organic strawberries, organic tapioca starch, organic flavors, pectin, live and active cultures. live and active cultures: l. acidophilus, b. lactis, s. thermophilus, l. casei, l. bulgaricus, b. bifidum, l. rhamnosus.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

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

Extra shap cheddar cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto (vegetable color).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Mixed berry kefir cultured lowfat milk
Ingredients: Pasteurized lowfat milk, nonfat milk, cane sugar, pectin, natural strawberry flavor, natural raspberry flavor, natural blueberry flavor, red beet juice (for color), vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3, live and active cultures.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Snack Cubes Colby Jack
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes (microbial), annatto (vegetable color).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Swiss Cheese
Ingredients: Pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes (microbial).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Pepper jack monterey jack cheese with jalapeno peppers
Ingredients: Pasteurized milk, green jalapeno peppers, red jalapeno peppers, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes (microbial).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

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
