I thought cottage cheese was supposed to be a healthy food, but what are all these weird ingredients?
Ingredients: GRADE A SKIM MILK, MILK, CREAM, LESS THAN 2%: GUAR GUM, Calcium Sulfate, Locust Bean Gum, CARRAGEENAN, MONÒ AND DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM PHOSPIATE,(TETRASODIUM PHOSPHATE) & Monopotassium Phosphate, DEXTROSE, CITRIC ACID, Lactic Acid, PHOSPHORIC ACID, NATURAL FLAVORINGS, SALT, POTASSIUM SORBAT, Calcium Chloride, Cultures, ENZYMES.
What are you defining as “weird” ingredients?
There’s artificial preservatives, added minerals, acidulants, & stabilizers. There’s certainly cleaner label cottage cheeses out there, but all of these ingredients are pretty commonplace in dairy products.
Yes you highlight a great point, anything can be bad it is about the ingredients, with that said avoid the gums and preservatives. This is a big issue with dairy products, thankfully with cottage cheese there are two very clean brands. I recommend Nancys brand and good culture.
The only cottage cheese I can eat is good culture. All other cottage cheese tastes awful to me. That’s a warning though as I can seriously not eat any other brand of cottage cheese. The ingredients are: ORGANIC SKIM MILK, ORGANIC WHOLE MILK, ORGANIC CREAM, SEA SALT, LIVE AND ACTIVE CULTURES.
First of all, fat is essential, low fat means higher carbohydrates & often more unhealthy ingredients. I seek high fat with few if any extra ingredients, & make my own high fat yogurt. Boosted my red cell count greatly. The more processed & man made it is, the more it will destroy my health.
It is extremely healthy if you make your own! I make my own with one ingredient Raw Milk. 👍
And if you haven’t noticed by now the government puts toxic ingredients in just about every product you buy In supermarkets.
Yep. In theory it is if you can get a very simple one without all those additives. Many of those are gut irritants or worse. Sometimes good fresh/farmers cheeses are available without all this added junk
I purchase ‘Cottage cheese Dry Curd’
Ingredients
SKIM MILK, BACTERIAL CULTURE, MICROBIAL ENZYME.
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size per 1/2 cup (125 g)
Calories 110
% Daily
Value*
Fat0.5g
1 %
Saturated Fat0.3g
2 %
+ Trans0g
Carbohydrate2g
Fibre0g
0 %
Sugars2g
Protein22g
Cholesterol10mg
Sodium15mg
1 %
Calcium
4 %
Iron
2 %
Vitamin A
2 %
Vitamin C
0 %
*5% or less is a little,
15% or more is a lot