Blue Cheese Yogurt Dressing, Blue Cheese

Why Does This Score Highly Processed?

In our analysis, Blue Cheese Yogurt Dressing, Blue Cheese scores Highly Processed. That classification is shaped by ingredients commonly associated with ultra-processed foods:

• Natural Flavors (Each: Natural Flavor): Despite being natural, these are highly processed extracts.
• Stabilizers & Gums (Xanthan Gum): Industrial stabilizers common in UPF.

Within Dressings & Mayo, this product is more processed than about 23% of the 5,534 products we've analyzed.

Processing classification reflects ingredient and additive analysis, not a judgment of any product's safety, quality, or healthfulness.

What These Ingredients Tell Us

We group Blue Cheese Yogurt Dressing, Blue Cheese's ingredients into ingredient categories and note how each relates to food processing. The notes below describe the category, not this specific product's formulation.

Food AcidsProcessing indicator

In this product: Cultured Nonfat Yogurt (Water, Nonfat Dry Milk, Modified Food Starch, Whey Protein Concentrate, Gelatin, Lactic Acid Bacteria Cultures)Blue Cheese (Cultured Pasteurized Milk, Salt, Enzymes, Penicillium Roqueforti), Lactic Acid.

Common in both traditional and industrial foods.

Vegetable OilsProcessing indicator

In this product: High Oleic Sunflower Oil.

Natural oils are minimally processed, hydrogenated oils indicate UPF.

Industrial FermentationProcessing indicator

In this product: Torula Yeast.

Industrial fermentation for additive production.