Is Follow Your Heart Dairy-Free Cheese Parmesan Style ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 26 ingredients
- 7 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed cheeses
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Filtered water, palm fruit oilâ€, modified potato starch (ultra-processing marker), canola oil, natural flavors (ultra-processing marker) (plant sources (contains autolyzed yeast)), vegetable glycerin (ultra-processing marker), less than 2% of (sea salt (processing marker)), calcium phosphate, bamboo fiber (ultra-processing marker), sodium phosphate, carrageenan (ultra-processing marker), lactic acid, calcium lactate, nutritional yeast, chickpea miso (handmade rice koji, chickpeas, sea salt (processing marker), water, koji spores), sunflower lecithin (ultra-processing marker), citric acid, annatto (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E160b Annatto , E270 Lactic acid , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E407 Carrageenan , E422 Glycerol
As written on the pack
Filtered water, organic palm fruit oil†*, modified potato starch, canola oil, natural flavors (plant sources [contains autolyzed yeast]), organic vegetable glycerin*, less than 2% of: sea salt, calcium phosphate, bamboo fiber, sodium phosphate, carrageenan, lactic acid [vegetable source], calcium lactate [vegetable source], nutritional yeast, organic chickpea miso* (organic handmade rice koji, organic whole chickpeas, sea salt, water, koji spores), sunflower lecithin, citric acid, annatto.
What makes it ultra-processed
Cosmetic additives
Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
- E407 Carrageenan Carrageenan is a thickener and gelling agent extracted from red seaweed, used widely in dairy desserts, plant-based drinks and processed meats.
- E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
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.
- Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
3 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.
Among 1,224 cheeses
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1186th. 38% of the cheeses here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0049568600048, last edited 15 February 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 E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.