Is Follow Your Heart Parmesan Style Dairy-Free Cheese ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 25 ingredients
- 6 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed cheeses
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Modified Potato Starch (ultra-processing marker), Palm Fruit Oil, Filtered Water, Canola Oil, Cellulose (ultra-processing marker), Maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), Natural Flavors (ultra-processing marker) (Contains Autolyzed Yeast), Less than 2% of (Vegetable Glycerin (ultra-processing marker)), Sea Salt (processing marker), Citric Acid, Nutritional Yeast, Calcium Phosphate, Bamboo Fiber (ultra-processing marker), Sodium Phosphate, Carrageenan (ultra-processing marker), Chickpea Miso (Handmade Rice Koji, Chickpeas, Sea Salt (processing marker), Water, Koji Spores), Sunflower Lecithin (ultra-processing marker), Annatto for Color
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E407 Carrageenan , E422 Glycerol , E460 Cellulose
As written on the pack
Modified Potato Starch, Palm Fruit Oil, Filtered Water, Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil, Cellulose, Maltodextrin, Natural Flavors (Contains Autolyzed Yeast), Less than 2% of: Vegetable Glycerin, Sea Salt, Citric Acid, Nutritional Yeast, Calcium Phosphate, Bamboo Fiber, Sodium Phosphate, Carrageenan, Organic Chickpea Miso (Organic Handmade Rice Koji, Organic Whole Chickpeas, Sea Salt, Water, Koji Spores), Sunflower Lecithin, Annatto for Color.
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.
- 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.
- E460 Cellulose A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
- 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.
- Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
- 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 1204th. 38% of the cheeses here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0049568600055, last edited 8 December 2025), 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.