Burrito Cheddar Cheese

How it scored 80 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 24 listed

• 1 Pinto Beans
  Seeds of Phaseolus vulgaris (common bean cultivar) — a whole-food legume.
  Safe
• 2 Filtered Water
  Water that has passed through a filtration process to remove impurities.
  Safe
• 3 Brown Rice
  Whole grain rice with the bran and germ intact (only the inedible hull removed).
  Low
• 4 Chickpea Flour
  Flour milled from dried chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.); also called gram flour or besan.
  Safe
• 5 Tomato Purée
  Concentrated cooked tomato product with skin and seeds removed.
  Safe
• 6 Cheddar
  Hard cow's milk cheese with FDA standard of identity (21 CFR 133.113); aged from a few months to several years.
  Safe
• 7 Monterey Jack
  Mild, semi-hard cow's-milk cheese originating in California.
  Low
• 8 Potato Starch
  Native starch extracted from potato tubers.
  Safe
• 9 Tapioca
  Starch extracted from cassava root (Manihot esculenta), sold as flour, pearls, or flakes.
  Safe
• 10 Onion
  The edible bulb of Allium cepa L., a widely cultivated vegetable in the Allium family that also includes garlic, shallots, and leeks.
  Safe
• 11 Safflower Oil
  Edible oil pressed from safflower seeds (Carthamus tinctorius); high-linoleic or high-oleic variants.
  Safe
• 12 High Oleic Sunflower Oil
  Sunflower oil from cultivars bred to be high in monounsaturated oleic acid (>80%).
  Safe
• 13 Bell Pepper
  The fruit of Capsicum annuum cultivars lacking pungency (no capsaicin), eaten as a vegetable.
  Safe
• 14 Sorghum Flour
  Flour milled from sorghum grain (Sorghum bicolor), a cereal that is naturally gluten-free.
  Safe
• 15 Rice
  Edible cereal grain (Oryza sativa), the seed of the rice plant, consumed as a staple food.
  Safe
• 16 Sea Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl) obtained by evaporating seawater. Chemically identical to mined/refined salt, with trace minerals depending on source…
  Low
• 17 Cane Sugar
  Sucrose (a disaccharide of glucose and fructose) crystallized from sugar cane juice; chemically identical to beet sugar.
  Moderate
• 18 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 19 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 20 Milk
  Lacteal secretion from cows or other domesticated ruminants (goats, sheep). Contains water, lactose, milk fat, casein and whey proteins, vit…
  Low
• 21 Microbial Culture
  Live or active cultures of bacteria/fungi used for fermentation (e.g., Lactobacillus, Streptococcus thermophilus, Bifidobacterium).
  Low
• 22 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 23 Enzyme
  Industrial food enzyme — protein catalysts derived from plants, animals, or microorganisms (often via fermentation), added to food to perfor…
  Low
• 24 Rennet
  A complex of proteolytic enzymes (chiefly chymosin) used to coagulate milk; sourced traditionally from animal stomachs or via microbial/ferm…
  Low