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Plain cottage cheeses, from least to most processed

We track 16 plain cottage cheeses, 13% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Yorkshire Cottage Cheese Natural.

What makes plain cottage cheeses ultra-processed

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

Processed food (14)

  1. 1 Yorkshire Cottage Cheese Natural Longley Farm · 250 g 3
  2. 2 Low Fat Cottage Cheese Lidl · 300 g 3
  3. 3 Fat free cottage cheese natural Emporium · 300 g 3
  4. 4 Fat Free Natural Cottage Cheese Longley Farm · 250 g 3
  5. 5 Cottage cheese Tesco 3
  6. 6 Fat Free Natural Cottage Cheese Essential Waitrose · 300g 3
  7. 7 Spalmabile - Light Milbona - Lidl · 300 g 3
  8. 8 Creamy Cottage Cheese M&S Food · 300 g 3
  9. 9 Cottage Cheese Graham's · 300g 3
  10. 10 2% Low-Fat Classic Cottage Cheese Good Culture · 16 oz 3
  11. 11 Cottage Cheese Lactose Free Good Culture · 425g 3
  12. 12 Cottage Cheese Garant · 500gr 3
  13. 13 Garant Cottage Cheese Naturell Axfood · 250 g 3
  14. 14 Cottage Cheese naturell ICA · 250g 3

Ultra-processed food (2)

  1. 15 KESO Cottage Cheese Naturell Protein Arla · 500 g 4
  2. 16 Cottage Cheese Friendly Farms · 24oz 4

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.