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Is Nancy's Probiotic Cream Cheese ultra-processed?

8 oz Cream cheeses Sold in the United States

Pack of Nancy's Probiotic Cream Cheese

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Whole foods combined with:

  • 9 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed cheeses

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

cream, pasteurized nonfat milk, salt, 4 strains of lactic cultures, live probiotic cultures (lactobacillus acidophilus), B, bifidobacterium lactis, lactobacillus rhamnosus

As written on the pack

ORGANIC PASTEURIZED CREAM, ORGANIC PASTEURIZED NONFAT MILK, SALT, 4 STRAINS OF LACTIC CULTURES, LIVE PROBIOTIC CULTURES: L. ACIDOPHILUS, B. BIFIDOBACTERIUM LACTIS, L. RHAMNOSUS.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Cheeses Products in the category "Cheeses" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 122 cream cheeses

From least to most processed, this one ranks 30th. 64% of the cream cheeses here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 122 cream cheeses, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0043192505106, last edited 29 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.