It’s hard to believe there could be anything wrong with virtuous cottage cheese, but if you’re using it as a healthier alternative to harder cheeses, you could be missing out on calcium.
Cheddar on two crackers provides 295mg (37 per cent of the recommended daily amount), whereas two crackers spread with cottage cheese supplies just 51g of the mineral and a mere 6 per cent of your recommended daily amount. Surprisingly, cottage cheese also has up to 50 per cent more saturated fat than full-fat milk.
Get it right: Cottage cheese from a supermarket’s healthy eating range will be lower in saturated fat. Team with lots of leafy salad greens, such as watercress, to boost calcium.
– Angela Dowden
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