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Cheeses, from least to most processed

We track 1,223 cheeses, 38% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Lighter.

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What makes cheeses ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of cheeses that contain each:

Processed culinary ingredient (1)

  1. 1 Lighter 500 2

Processed food (752)

  1. 2 Our Mature Cheddar Cathedral City · 350 g 3
  2. 3 Full Fat Soft Cheese Sainsbury's · 300 g 3
  3. 4 Our Extra Mature Cheddar Cathedral City · 350 g 3
  4. 5 French Brie Milbona · 200g 3
  5. 6 Extra Mature Cheddar Cathedral City · 550 g 3
  6. 7 British Extra Mature Cheddar, Strength 5 Valley Spire · 400g 3
  7. 8 Soft Cheese Tesco · 200g 3
  8. 9 Original Creamy Soft Cheese Marks & Spencer · 250g 3
  9. 10 Greek style salad cheese Lidl · 200 g 3
  10. 11 Mature Cheddar, Strength 3 Tesco · 400 g 3
  11. 12 Greek Feta Yamas · 150 g 3
  12. 13 Quark Grahams · 250g 3
  13. 14 British Mature Cheddar Aldi · 400 g 3
  14. 15 Mini Mature Cheddar Cathedral City · 6 x 20 g 3
  15. 16 Extra Mature Cheddar Tesco · 400g 3
  16. 17 Emmental Slices Milbona · 400g 3
  17. 18 Young Gouda Milbona · 400g 3
  18. 19 Parmigiano Reggiano Specially Selected 3
  19. 20 Greek Style Salad Cheese Everyday Essentials · 200 g 3
  20. 21 Emmental Tesco · 250g 3
  21. 22 Mature Cheddar Creamfields · 400g 3
  22. 23 Quark Tesco · 250 g 3
  23. 24 French Brie Creamfields · 200 g 3
  24. 25 Extra Creamy Brie Castello · 200g 3
  25. 26 Greek Style Salad Cheese Creamfields · 200g 3
  26. 27 Creamy Soft Cheese Marks & Spencers 3
  27. 28 Parmigiano Reggiano PDO Deluxe · 200g 3
  28. 29 Gouda Tesco · 250g 3
  29. 30 British Mature Cheddar sainsbury's SO organic · 270 g 3
  30. 31 Parmigiano Reggiano Tesco finest 3
  31. 32 Edam semi-hard medium fat cheese slices Milbona · 400g 3
  32. 33 British Extra Mature Cheddar, Strength 5 Lidl · 800g 3
  33. 34 Greek Style Salad Cheese Simply · 200g 3
  34. 35 Extra Mature Cheddar Pilgrim’s Choice · 350g 3
  35. 36 British Extra Mature Cheddar Emporium · 400 g 3
  36. 37 Goats cheese Chavroux · 5 x 30 g 3
  37. 38 Mature White Cheddar Lidl · 900 g 3
  38. 39 10 Mature Cheddar Slices Tesco · 250 g 3
  39. 40 Mild cheddar slices Simply... · 300 g 3
  40. 41 Mozzarella Slices Tesco · 250g 3

Showing the first 40 of 752. The narrower categories above, or search, find the rest.

Ultra-processed food (470)

  1. 754 Soft Cheese Smooth & Tasty Creamfields · 200g 4
  2. 755 Savers soft cheese Morrisons · 200 g 4
  3. 756 Select Red Cheddar Charleville 4
  4. 757 Full fat soft cheese Aldi · 200 g 4
  5. 758 Spreadable Cream Cheese Coles 4
  6. 759 Soft Cheese Stamford Street Co. · 200g 4
  7. 760 Smoky Cheddar Original Slices Applewood · 160 g 4
  8. 761 Smoke Flavoured Cheddar Cheese Wedge Applewood · 185 gr 4
  9. 762 Smoky cheddar with paprika dusting Valley Spire · 200 g 4
  10. 763 Soft Cheese Asda 4
  11. 764 Almette - Whippet cream cheese Hochland · 150g 4
  12. 765 Provolone Sargento · 226 g (12 x 18.8 g) 4
  13. 766 Cottage Cheese High Protein Dairly · 200 g 4
  14. 767 RICOTTA CON LATTE Whole Milk NATURAL CHEESE Belgioioso · 30 g 4
  15. 768 Original Cream Cheese Tillamook 4
  16. 769 Original The Laughing Cow La Vache qui rit · 32 portions 4
  17. 770 Skyr fat free strawberry yogurt Skyr · 450 g 4
  18. 771 Mozzarella Pizza Saputo · 500 grams 4
  19. 772 Extra Old Cheddar Cheese PC • Loblaws · 400 g 4
  20. 773 Pizza Mozzarella Armstrong · 400g 4
  21. 774 wensleydale with cranberry Aldi 4
  22. 775 Arla Färskost Naturell med Kvarg Arla · 150 g 4
  23. 776 All Butter Pastry Twists Duc De Coeur · 125g 4
  24. 777 Cantadou Paprika och chili Cantadou · 125 g 4
  25. 778 Passion Fruit, Mango & Papaya Graham's · 200g 4
  26. 779 pasta and cheddar Annies · 1 oz 4
  27. 780 pastasås mild ost Ica · 400g 4
  28. 781 Skyr, Passion Fruit, Mango & Papaya Graham’s · 450g 4
  29. 782 Cheese Spread herbs Milbona · 200 g 4
  30. 783 Barber’s Truffle Cheese Sainsbury's Taste The Difference 4
  31. 784 Marmite cheese Marmite · 5 x 15 g 4
  32. 785 Cypriot Halloumi & Hot Honey Rolls with sweet red peppers Higgidy 4
  33. 786 Full Fat Soft Cheese Milbona · 200 g 4
  34. 787 Cheese 'a' Peel Emporium 4
  35. 788 Original Paneer Cheese Arla · 225 g 4
  36. 789 cream cheese Philadelphia · 2 x 8 oz 4
  37. 790 Cream Cheese Spread Organic Valley · 8 oz 4
  38. 791 Medium Cheddar Cheese Tillamook · 1 4
  39. 792 Smoky Cheddar Slices with Paprika Dusting Valley Spire · 140g 4
  40. 793 Original Cream Cheese Philadelphia · 48 oz 4

Showing the first 40 of 470. The narrower categories above, or search, find the rest.

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.