Cottage cheese aux fines herbes - European Score 100/100

European Score analysis

Coop Naturaplan's Cottage Cheese aux Fines Herbes achieves a perfect European Score of 100 and outscores 88% of the 105 products in the cottage cheeses category — a strong standing in one of the larger fields assessed. The breakdown awards the full 35 points each for company headquarters and manufacturing, reflecting Coop's Swiss base and Swiss production. Ingredients contribute 6 points, distribution 15, certifications 5, and proximity 5.

The certification stack is notably thorough: the product carries EU Organic status alongside the Bio Suisse leaf, certified organic, and a pasteurisation declaration. Bio Suisse applies stricter standards than the EU baseline, requiring, for example, that animals have access to pasture and that feed is sourced organically. This layering of national and supranational organic credentials gives shoppers an unusually well-documented assurance of production practices.

With both origins and manufacturing confirmed as Swiss, the supply chain is compact and transparent, with no ingredient or processing step identified outside Switzerland. The ingredients score of 6 rather than the maximum 10 suggests some component of the recipe is sourced from outside the most proximate supply chains, but this does not detract from an overall profile that places this cottage cheese comfortably at the top of its category. For European shoppers who value organic certification and short supply chains, the combination of Swiss provenance and rigorous third-party verification makes this a well-supported choice.