Harvest Cheesecake Sampler

Why Does This Score Ultra-Processed?

In our analysis, Harvest Cheesecake Sampler scores Ultra-Processed. That classification is shaped by ingredients commonly associated with ultra-processed foods:

• Stabilizers & Gums (Cream Cheese (Pasteurized Milk And Cream, Cheese Culture, Salt, Stabilizers [Carob Bean And/Or Xanthan And/Or Guar Gums], Water, Whey Protein Concentrate, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Cream, Lactic Acid, Milk, Potassium Sorbate, Xanthan Gum, Cheese Culture, Natural Flavor, Enzymes)Graham Crackers (Unbleached Unenriched Wheat Flour, Graham Flour, Sugar, Palm And Palm Kernel Oil, Molasses, Honey, Salt, Sodium Bicarbonate)): Industrial stabilizers common in UPF.
• Natural Flavors (Vanilla, Natural Flavor): Despite being natural, these are highly processed extracts.
• Emulsifiers (Soy Lecithin): Industrial emulsifiers indicate UPF.

Within Cakes & Pastries, this product is more processed than about 16% of the 11,919 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 Harvest Cheesecake Sampler'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.

Sugars & Natural SweetenersProcessing indicator

In this product: Sugar, Streusel Topping (Wheat Flour, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Dextrose, Contains 2% Or Less Of Cinnamon, Mono And Diglycerides, Salt, Natural And Artificial Flavor, Caramel Color), Caramel (Sweetened Condensed Whole Milk, Corn Syrup, Palm Oil, Cream, Water, Glycerin, Pectin, Salt, Disodium Phosphate, Soy Lecithin, Natural And Artificial Flavors, Carrageenan Potassium Sorbate), Brown Sugar, and 1 more.

Natural sugars acceptable in moderation, excessive amounts indicate UPF.

Synthetic VitaminsProcessing indicator

In this product: Margarine (Palm Oil, Water, Salt, Mono And Diglycerides, Artificial Flavor, Annatto [Color], Calcium Disodium Edta, Vitamin A Palmitate Added)Sour Cream (Cultured Cream, Food Starch-Modified, Sodium Phosphate, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Locust Bean Gum, Potassium Sorbate).

Fortification often compensates for processing losses.