Is Queso Mama White Queso With Diced Green Chiles ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 16 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score E
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Pasteurized process American cheese (cultured milk, skim milk, cream, sodium phosphate, salt (processing marker), lactic acid, enzymes), water, green chili peppers, Jalapeno peppers, nonfat dry milk (processing marker), dextrose (ultra-processing marker), maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), cumin, garlic
Additives: E270 Lactic acid
As written on the pack
Pasteurized process American cheese (cultured milk and skim milk, cream, sodium phosphate, salt, lactic acid, enzymes), water, green chili peppers, roasted Jalapeno peppers, nonfat dry milk, cultured dextrose and maltodextrin, cumin, garlic
What makes it ultra-processed
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.
- Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
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.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0857524002719, last edited 14 May 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 E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.