Sargento has continued its seven-decade streak of innovation with three launches: Natural American Cheese – 100% natural cheese; Seasoned Shredded Cheese – bold and flavorful blends, in collaboration with spice category leader McCormick & Co, Inc.; and Shareables – an easy-to-share, ready-to-serve cheese and cracker tray, in partnership with snacking leader Mondelez International.

“For more than 70 years, our focus on innovation, quality and taste has made Sargento the leader in natural cheese,” said Erin Price, Sargento general manager of consumer products. “In 2025, we’re continuing our leadership by unveiling three new products that will resonate with consumers looking for bold, new flavors and snack options, while at the same time growing the natural cheese category. We’re thrilled to partner with other category leaders, like Mondelēz International and McCormick & Co, Inc., to bring these groundbreaking, natural cheese products to market.”

From the Natural American Cheese to convenient Shareables and boldly flavored Seasoned Shreds, which feature Frank’s RedHot and Cholula hot sauce seasonings and McCormick crushed red pepper, these breakthrough products make meals and snacking exciting with the premium quality and taste that consumers trust from Sargento.

The Natural American Cheese is a sliced cheese made with 100% natural cheese. Unlike typical processed American cheeses in the dairy case with nine or more ingredients, Sargento’s Natural American Cheese has just five, delivering the melt, flavor, aroma and texture with which consumers are familiar. This industry-disrupting innovation, years in the making, underscores Sargento’s 71-year commitment to quality, as well as innovating the consumer experience for the future.

Developed in collaboration with McCormick & Co, Inc., Sargento’s Seasoned Shredded Cheese provides a spicy, bold twist on natural cheese that consumers crave. As adventurous consumers increasingly seek bold and spicy flavors, these three unique blends of seasoned, shredded cheeses deliver the heat with recognizable brands, creating exciting, new offerings in the dairy case: Sargento’s shredded cheese with Frank’s RedHot hot sauce seasoning, Sargento’s shredded cheese with Cholula hot sauce seasoning, and Sargento’s shredded cheese with McCormick crushed red pepper.

Sargento’s Shareables are portioned cheese and cracker trays and were designed for effortless sharing in small groups, ensuring the ideal cheese-to-cracker ratio in each bite. Building on the success of Fun! Balanced Breaks snacks, in partnership with Mondelēz International, Inc., the Shareables offer a convenient, re-sealable snacking solution for consumers to serve, enjoy together and save for later. The Shareables come in three varieties, each featuring two Sargento natural cheeses paired with RITZ or TRISCUIT crackers: Sargento’s cheddar and Colby-jack cheeses with RITZ crackers, Sargento’s white cheddar and Gouda cheeses with TRISCUIT crackers, and Sargento’s pepper jack and Monterey jack cheeses with RITZ crackers.

The innovations expand the Sargento family of products, joining the recently released Cheese Bakes, a collaboration with Mondelēz International, Inc.’s Nabisco Crackers launched earlier this year. With this launch, the Sargento brand is in the cracker aisle for the very first time.

These innovations represent “The Sargento Family Promise” – the brand’s newly launched platform spotlighting its three-generation, family tradition of delivering high-quality, natural cheese that consumers can trust and love. In upholding the platform’s promise, consumers can be sure that all innovations have undergone the company’s quality review to ensure that the taste, texture, melt and aroma are worthy of holding the Sargento family seal – as they say, “you have our word on it; you have our name on it.”

Each new product can be found at retailers nationwide in the dairy case and cracker aisle.

About Sargento
With over 2,500 employees and multiple-billion dollars in net sales, Sargento is a family-owned company that has been a leader in cheese for more than 70 years. Founded in 1953 in Plymouth, Wisconsin, Sargento is proud to be the company that successfully introduced America to pre-packaged, sliced and shredded, natural cheeses and cheese blends. Today, Sargento is still based in Wisconsin, where it manufactures and markets amazing shredded, sliced and snack natural cheese products, as well as ingredients. The company’s leadership lives to serve local communities and employees, whom they refer to as the Sargento family.