Is Trader Joe's Oven-Baked Cheese Bites ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 9 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed appetizers
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
semi aged cheese, milk, salt (processing marker), vegetable rennet, Grana Padano cheese (processing marker), milk, salt (processing marker), egg lysozyme, animal rennet
Additives: E1105 Lysozyme
As written on the pack
semi aged cheese, milk, salt, vegetable rennet, Grana Padano cheese, milk, salt, egg lysozyme, animal rennet
What makes it processed
Processed ingredients
Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
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.
- Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 2,497 appetizers
From least to most processed, this one ranks 720th. 64% of the appetizers here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00572439, last edited 14 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 E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.