Is Knudsen Low Fat Cottage Cheese 2% Milkfat Small Curd ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 13 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
cultured pasteurized grade a nonfat milk, milk, creame, whey (ultra-processing marker), contains less than 2% of modified food starch, salt (processing marker), citric acid, calcium phosphate, xanthan gum (ultra-processing marker), guar gum (ultra-processing marker), natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3
Additives: E330 Citric acid , E412 Guar gum , E415 Xanthan gum
As written on the pack
CULTURED PASTEURIZED GRADE A NONFAT MILK, MILK AND CREAME, WHEY, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, CITRIC ACID, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, XANTHAN GUM, GUAR GUM, NATURAL FLAVOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, VITAMIN D3
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.
- E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
- E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
- 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.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed
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.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0049900345040, last edited 6 August 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.