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Grated and shredded cheese: what's actually in it?

Grated and shredded cheese is cheese cut into strands or crumbs so it melts fast on pizza, pasta and bakes. Almost every bag on this page adds two things the block does not have: an anti-caking agent (usually cellulose E460, potato starch or tapioca starch) so the strands do not clump, and a preservative (usually sorbic acid E200) so the opened bag keeps. The cheese itself is the same cheese as the block — the difference is the anti-caking agent and the preservative. This page covers grated and shredded cheese, including blends sold in Singapore. Cheese blocks, slices and grated parmesan sold as a hard-cheese block are separate categories.

This page does not give a health score or a “best” pick. It shows the ingredient list as printed and flags what is in it.

The headline, in 30 seconds

Anti-caking agent is the marker of this category. Perfect Italiano grated mozzarella lists microcrystalline cellulose (460); Emborg shredded cheddar lists potato starch; Emborg parmesan lists tapioca starch.
Blends state their cheese shares on the pack: Perfect Bakes is cheddar 66%, easy-melt mozzarella 17%, parmesan 17%. Perfect Pizza's FairPrice list gives no shares — none are quoted.
The Emborg 3 Cheese Bake has a conflict: the Malaysian retailer listing says the blend is mozzarella, coloured cheddar and gouda, while FairPrice marketing says mozzarella, cheddar and parmesan. Both are stated, not merged.
Perfect Italiano mozzarella grated and its block differ by two ingredients: the block is cow's milk, salt, cultures, vegetarian rennet; the grated bag adds anti-caking agent (460) and preservative (200).
Vegan grated cheese exists on this shelf (Bute Island Sheese, mozzarella and mature cheddar styles) — it is not dairy cheese, and no verbatim list was retrieved for it in this pass, so it sits in seen-but-not-verified, not in the panelled table.

At a glance

Product	Pack size (as printed)	Type	First ingredient	Country of manufacture (as printed)
Perfect Italiano Mozzarella (Grated)	250g / 450g	Shredded mozzarella	Cheese	Not stated
Perfect Italiano Perfect Bakes	450g	Shredded blend	Cheese (cheddar 66%)	Australia
Perfect Italiano Perfect Pizza	450g	Shredded blend	Cheese	Not stated
Perfect Italiano Traditional Hard Cheese (Parmesan, Grated)	not stated	Grated parmesan	Cheese	Not stated
Emborg Shredded Red Cheddar	200g	Shredded cheddar	Pasteurised cow's milk	Not stated
Emborg Parmesan — Shredded	150g	Shredded parmesan	Parmesan cheese	Not stated
Emborg 3 Cheese Bake — Shredded	not stated	Shredded blend	Cheese blend	Not stated

Panelled with verbatim lists: 7 products. Seen but not verified: 8 products (see list below). No prices are shown: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only, and gives no health score, ranking or “best” pick.

Perfect Italiano Mozzarella (Grated)

Pack size: 250g / 450g · Made in: Not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice Singapore ingredient section): Cheese [Pasteurised Cow's Milk, Salt, Cultures, Enzyme (Non-Animal Rennet)], Anti-Caking Agent (Microcrystalline Cellulose, 460), Preservative (Sorbic Acid, 200)

FairPrice. Compare the block (cow's milk, salt, cultures, vegetarian rennet): grating adds the anti-caking agent and the preservative, nothing else. Allergen: milk Via: FairPrice

Perfect Italiano Perfect Bakes

Pack size: 450g · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice Singapore ingredient section): Cheese (Milk, Salt, Cultures, Enzymes), Anticaking Agent (460), Preservative (200), Cheddar Cheese (66%), Easy Melt Mozzarella Cheese (17%), Parmesan Cheese (17%)

FairPrice, origin Australia. A blend of cheddar for flavour, mozzarella for stretch and parmesan for bite, with the shares printed on the list. Allergen: milk Origin: Australia Via: FairPrice

Perfect Italiano Perfect Pizza

Pack size: 450g · Made in: Not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice Singapore ingredient section): Cheese (Milk, Salt, Cultures, Enzyme), Anticaking Agent (460), Preservative (200)

FairPrice. Marketed as a mozzarella-and-cheddar blend for pizza, but the FairPrice ingredient section retrieved gives no cheese shares — none are quoted here. Do not copy the Perfect Bakes shares onto this product. Allergen: milk Via: FairPrice

Perfect Italiano Traditional Hard Cheese (Parmesan, Grated)

Pack size: not stated · Made in: Not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice Singapore ingredient section): Cheese (Milk, Salt, Cultures, Enzyme), Anticaking Agent (460)

FairPrice. The simplest grated list on this page: cheese plus one anti-caking agent, no preservative listed. Allergen: milk Via: FairPrice

Emborg Shredded Red Cheddar

Pack size: 200g · Made in: Not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts entry — secondary): Pasteurized cow's milk, salt, lactic culture, microbial rennet, colour (E160b), potato starch

Flag: Open Food Facts entry; no FairPrice ingredient section was retrieved for this product in this pass, so the SG pack still needs a photo. Potato starch is the anti-caking agent here; E160b gives the red cheddar its colour. Allergen: milk Via: Open Food Facts (secondary)

Emborg Parmesan — Shredded

Pack size: 150g · Made in: Not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts entry — secondary): Parmesan cheese, cow's milk, salt, lactic culture, microbial rennet, tapioca starch, preservative (INS202)

Flag: Open Food Facts entry; no FairPrice ingredient section was retrieved in this pass. Tapioca starch is the anti-caking agent; preservative is INS202 (potassium sorbate). Allergen: milk Via: Open Food Facts (secondary)

Emborg 3 Cheese Bake — Shredded

Pack size: not stated · Made in: Not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Malaysian retailer listing — secondary): Cheese blend (mozzarella cheese, coloured cheddar cheese, gouda cheese), potato starch

Flag and conflict: the Malaysian retailer listing (BICS) says the blend is mozzarella, coloured cheddar and gouda, and gives per-100 g nutrition. FairPrice's own marketing for the same product name says mozzarella, cheddar and parmesan. The two cannot both be the SG list — both are stated here, neither is merged, and the SG pack must settle it. Allergen: milk Via: retailer (secondary)

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

FairPrice Shredded Mozzarella, Shredded Cheddar, Shredded Pizza Topping Cheese, Italian Style Cheese — Grated — house-brand bags seen at FairPrice; no ingredient list retrieved for any of them in this pass.
Emborg Shredded Mozzarella, Emborg Shredded Easy Stretch Mozzarella, Emborg Pasta Cheese — Shredded, Emborg Pizza Topping Shredded Cheese — seen at FairPrice; no verbatim ingredient list retrieved for any of them in this pass (the Pizza Topping listing in Thailand gives cheddar, mozzarella, parmesan, anticaking agent, preservative — a Thai listing, not an SG pack).
Cowhead Mozzarella (Shredded), Cowhead Tasty Grated Natural Cheddar, Cowhead Pama & Son (Grated) — seen at FairPrice; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
Tradition Shredded Mozzarella & Red Cheddar, Tradition Shredded Cheese (assorted) — seen at FairPrice and Giant; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
Perfect Italiano Perfect Melt — seen at FairPrice; the brand's own video gives its composition (50% Easy Melt Mozz, 25% Traditional Mozz, 12.5% Cheddar, 12.5% Romano) but that is a composition breakdown, not a verbatim ingredient list, so it is not panelled.
Kraft Grated Parmesan — seen in Singapore retail coverage; no SG verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
Bute Island Sheese Vegan Grated Cheese — Mozzarella Style and Mature Cheddar Style — vegan (dairy-free) grated cheese seen at FairPrice; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass. Not dairy cheese; needs its own check.
Emborg Gran Amici (Parmesan Grated) — seen at FairPrice; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 g unless a separate per-serving table says otherwise. Sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars separately. No official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any of these listings in this pass, so none is quoted here; no grade has been assigned.

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Sodium is not presented as salt, and salt is not presented as sodium.

Total vs added sugars: Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars. A total-sugars figure is never labelled here as “added sugar”. The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar (sugar, glucose syrup, invert sugar syrup) versus naturally occurring sugars (lactose in milk/cream).

Open Food Facts is a community database and is flagged as secondary where used: the pack and the retailer nutrition section take precedence if they disagree. Figures marked “not stated” were not in the source retrieved; they are not estimated, borrowed from another variant, or copied across flavours.

Per 100 g, as sold

Product	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
Emborg Shredded Red Cheddar (Open Food Facts, secondary)	419 kcal	25 g	34 g	21 g	3.5 g	0.5 g	700 mg (salt 1.75 g)
Emborg Parmesan — Shredded (Open Food Facts, secondary)	372 kcal	32 g	27.2 g	not stated	0.4 g	0 g	956 mg (salt 2.39 g)
Emborg 3 Cheese Bake — Shredded (Malaysian retailer, secondary)	344 kcal	25 g	25 g	17 g	3 g	0.5 g	640 mg (salt 1.6 g)

Click a column header to sort. Rows marked “not stated” always sort last — a dash is missing data, not zero. Salt equivalent = sodium × 2.5, shown in brackets.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Perfect Italiano Mozzarella (Grated), Perfect Italiano Perfect Bakes, Perfect Italiano Perfect Pizza, or Perfect Italiano Traditional Hard Cheese (Parmesan, Grated). Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here. Note on the Emborg Parmesan saturated-fat cell: the Open Food Facts entry gives saturated fat as 0 g, which is not credible for a parmesan at 27.2 g total fat — the cell is recorded as not stated rather than repeating a value that looks like a database error.

How to read the label — the jargon, in plain English

Anti-caking agent (E460 cellulose, potato starch, tapioca starch): Keeps grated strands from clumping back together in the bag. It is the ingredient that makes grated cheese different from the same cheese in a block.
Preservative (E200 sorbic acid, E202 potassium sorbate): Stops mould on the cut surfaces of grated cheese once the bag is opened. The parmesan on this page lists no preservative; the mozzarella and cheddar bags do.
Easy-melt mozzarella: A mozzarella made to melt and stretch more readily than traditional mozzarella. Perfect Bakes and Perfect Pizza use it as part of their blends.
Blend shares (66% / 17% / 17%): The share of each cheese in a blend, printed on the Perfect Bakes list. A blend without printed shares (Perfect Pizza) cannot be assumed to match another blend's shares.
E160b (annatto): The colour that makes red cheddar red. It is a colour, not a cheese.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not a “best” pick. The products on this page are different products, and this page does not rank them.
Not a taste test, and not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; ingredients change less often, but still change.
Not complete. The products in seen-but-not-verified are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden. Stock and formulations change, so no page claims permanent 100% completeness.

Sources and method

Checked 12 November 2026 from: FairPrice Singapore ingredient sections (Perfect Italiano Mozzarella Grated, Perfect Bakes, Perfect Pizza, Traditional Hard Cheese Grated); Open Food Facts (Emborg Shredded Red Cheddar, Emborg Parmesan Shredded); Malaysian retailer listing BICS (Emborg 3 Cheese Bake, secondary); FairPrice category listings (Emborg shredded range, FairPrice house-brand shredded range, Cowhead shredded range, Tradition blends, Bute Island vegan grated, Kraft Grated Parmesan). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page, so its shelf could not be panelled from its site. Nutrition section added 12 November 2026: figures are standardised to per 100 g where the source gives per-100 figures; per-serving-only figures are labelled as such and are not converted; sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars; salt = sodium × 2.5. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.