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Is Emporium Selections Swiss & Gruyere Shredded Cheese ultra-processed?

8 oz Hard cheeses Sold in the United States

Pack of Emporium Selections Swiss & Gruyere Shredded Cheese

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 11 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed cheeses

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Swiss cheese, pasteurized part-skim milk, salt, microbial enzymes, Gruyere cheese, milk, salt, microbial enzymes, potato starch, tapioca starch, natamycin

Additives: E235 Natamycin

As written on the pack

Swiss cheese, cultured pasteurized part-skim milk, salt, microbial enzymes, Gruyere cheese, cultured pasteurized milk, salt, microbial enzymes, potato starch, tapioca starch, natamycin

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Cheeses Products in the category "Cheeses" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 15 hard cheeses

From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 7% of the hard cheeses here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 15 hard cheeses, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4099100259124, last edited 26 January 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.