Is Lucerne Dairy Farms Mozzarella Cheese Shredded ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 10 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed cheeses
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
mozzarella cheese (processing marker) (pasteurized skim milk, salt (processing marker), enzymes, vitamin a palmitate), anticake (processing marker) (potato starch (processing marker), powdered cellulose (ultra-processing marker)), natamycin (mold inhibitor)
Additives: E235 Natamycin , E460 Cellulose , E460ii Powdered cellulose
As written on the pack
Fat free mozzarella cheese (cultured pasteurized skim milk, salt, enzymes, vitamin a palmitate), anticake (potato starch, powdered cellulose), natamycin (mold inhibitor).
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.
- 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.
5 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.
- Anti-caking agent Anti-caking agents are substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
Among 1,224 cheeses
From least to most processed, this one ranks 881st. 38% of the cheeses here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0021130048311, last edited 7 June 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.