Monterey Jack Cheese
Monterey Jack Cheese by Kraft has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.
- Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 3
Dairies / Fermented foods / Fermented milk products / Cheeses
How This Score Is Built
Monterey Jack Cheese draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Monterey Jack Cheese sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
5 Top 15% higher than 85% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.
Full Ingredients List
Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes, Natamycin (A Natural Mold Inhibitor)
Product Details
- Brand
- Kraft
- Barcode
- 0021000003068
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Monterey Jack Cheese's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 5/5, Monterey Jack Cheese sits ahead of 85% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Monterey Jack Cheese's 5/5 score be read?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 5/5 average places Monterey Jack Cheese in the Generally Safe tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.