Is Milbona Cheese Singles 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
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed cheeses
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
cheddar cheese (processing marker) 30%, cheese (processing marker) 20%, whey (ultra-processing marker), butter (processing marker), emulsifying salts (potassium citrates), diphosphates (ultra-processing marker), triphosphates (ultra-processing marker), sodium phosphates, skimmed milk powder (processing marker)
Additives: E450 Diphosphates , E451 Triphosphates
As written on the pack
30% cheddar cheese ( milk ), 20% cheese ( milk ), liquid whey ( milk ), butter ( milk ), emulsifying salts: potassium citrates, diphosphates, triphosphates, sodium phosphates, skimmed milk powder
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.
- E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
- E451 Triphosphates Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
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.
4 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.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
Among 1,223 cheeses
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1021st. 38% of the cheeses here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489117506, last edited 27 July 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.