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Is Nabisco Good Thins The Cheese One-Three Cheese ultra-processed?

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Pack of Nabisco Good Thins The Cheese One-Three Cheese

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 26 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Whole grain brown rice flour, tapioca starch, sugar, parmesan cheese (pasteurized milk, salt, cheese culture, enzymes), safflower oil, whey, salt, rice flour, cream, buttermilk, cheddar cheese powder (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), onion, nonfat milk, natural flavor, gouda cheese (pasteurized milk, salt, cheese culture, enzymes)

As written on the pack

Whole grain brown rice flour, tapioca starch, sugar, parmesan cheese powder (pasteurized milk, salt, cheese culture, enzymes), safflower oil, whey, salt, rice flour, cream, dried buttermilk, cheddar cheese powder (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), onion powder, nonfat milk, natural flavor, gouda cheese powder (pasteurized milk, salt, cheese culture, enzymes).

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.

  • 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.
7 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Microbial culture Microbial cultures ferment foods such as yoghurt, cheese and sourdough.
  • 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 0044000058395, last edited 19 June 2024), 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.