Is Emporium Cheese Triangles ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 9 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed cheeses
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Water, cheese (processing marker) 38%, skimmed milk powder (processing marker), butter (processing marker), whey powder (ultra-processing marker), stabilizers (citric acid), sodium carbonates, milk proteins (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E330 Citric acid
As written on the pack
Water, cheese (38%) (milk), skimmed milk powder, butter (milk), whey powder (milk), stabilizers: citric acid, sodium carbonates; milk proteins.
What makes it ultra-processed
Substances rarely used in home kitchens
Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
- Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
4 ingredients that would only make it processed
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Cheeses Products in the category "Cheeses" are at least group 3.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
Among 1,223 cheeses
From least to most processed, this one ranks 918th. 38% of the cheeses here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600282527, last edited 27 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
- NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.