Is Cream Cheese Keto?
Yes — fits your limit
1g net carbs per 1 oz (28 g)
One serving is 5% of a 20 g day.
1 g total carbohydrate − 0 g fibre = 1 g net carbs, against a 20 g daily limit — 5% of the day. We call it a fit at 25% of your limit or less, a maybe up to 50%, and a no above that.
Why
Nearly all of the energy here is fat — 9.9 g of it — and the single gram of carbohydrate is residual lactose.
This is one of the few genuinely uncomplicated answers on this site. Plain cream cheese is fat with a trace of milk sugar. The thing to watch is not the cheese but the flavoured tubs — honey nut, strawberry — which are a different product with several times the carbohydrate.
| Serving | 1 oz (28 g) |
|---|---|
| Total carbohydrate | 1 g |
| Fibre | 0 g |
| Sugars | 1 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Fat | 9.9 g |
| Energy | 100 kcal |
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Common questions
- How many carbs are in cream cheese?
- About 1 g per 28 g serving for plain Philadelphia, using the Open Food Facts record.
- Are flavoured cream cheeses keto?
- Usually not. Sweetened varieties add sugar directly and can run 4–6 g per serving.
- Is whipped cream cheese different?
- Per ounce it is similar, but whipping means a tablespoon holds less product — so a spoonful of whipped is lower carb than a spoonful of block.
Figures for this product come from the Open Food Facts community database, record 0021000612239, retrieved 2026-08-31. Open Food Facts is crowd-sourced and a record can lag the current package — treat the label in your hand as the authority. We publish the number and where it came from so you can check it.