Best Cottage Cheese by PureScore

Cottage cheese is a cultured-milk cup, and fruit-on-the-bottom versions are a different label. This ranking uses the published PureScore already on each product page. The live composite is ingredient safety (40%), formulation quality (30%), contaminant risk (20%), and label transparency (10%). Labels that are only partly matched stay off the list.

Ranked cottage cheese

Rank	Product	Brand	PureScore	Label begins	Buy
1	Organic Cottage Cheese Small Curd	Wegmans	88	Organic grade a skim milk, organic grade a milk, organic grade a cream, salt, live active cultures	Buy
2	Whole Milk Classic Cottage Cheese	Good Culture	86	Skim milk, whole milk, cream, celtic sea salt live and active cultures	Buy
3	Cottage cheese	Daisy	86	Cultured skim milk, cream, salt	Buy
4	Cottage Cheese Small Curd	Breakstone's	85	CULTURED PASTEURIZED SKIM MILK AND CREAM, WATER, TAPIOCA STARCH, SALT VITAMIN A PALMITATE	Buy
5	Nonfat Small Curd Cottage Cheese With Pineapple	Best Yet	56	CULTURED PASTEURIZED SKIM MILK, PINEAPPLE, WHEY, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN	Buy

Wegmans Organic Cottage Cheese Small Curd at 88 is Excellent. Its label begins: Organic grade a skim milk, organic grade a milk, organic grade a cream, salt, live active cultures. Best Yet Nonfat Small Curd Cottage Cheese With Pineapple at 56 is Fair. Its label begins: CULTURED PASTEURIZED SKIM MILK, PINEAPPLE, WHEY, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN.

Open a product page before you buy. Search the catalog for cottage cheese. The same model is written up on the methodology page. The published dairy alternatives Top 10 covers the wider dairy alternatives aisle.

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