Is Lucerne Sharp Cheddar Reduced Fat Cheese ultra-processed?

28 g Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
E160b Annatto

6 ingredients
1 additive

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

cultured pasteurized reduced fat milk, salt (processing marker), enzymes (processing marker), annatto (ultra-processing marker) (color (ultra-processing marker)), vitamin a palmitate

Additives: E160b Annatto

As written on the pack

CULTURED PASTEURIZED REDUCED FAT MILK, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO (COLOR), VITAMIN A PALMITATE.

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.
Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

2 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.

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Enzyme Enzymes carry out traditional processes such as cheese making and baking.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0021130047536, last edited 9 March 2025), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
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The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
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