Are there calories in whey?

SheFoxyLady

Pure curiosity - are there calories in whey, and by whey I mean the liquid resulting from cheese making (such as cottage cheese or ricotta)?
I haven't been able to find any information about such phenomenon (mind you, I might not have searched enough).

I mean, as an example, take cottage cheese X, directly issued from your supermarket. It is made of milk and enzymes and offers 104cals for 100g. There are no further informations upon the milk used - it could be skim, 2% or whole.
Take cottage cheese Y, made at home. A liter of milk is used - 2% - yielding 250g of cottage cheese. The milk totals 490cals. Does the totality of the cottage cheese (those meagre 250g) own the same caloric value? Meaning a 100g portion values 196cals? Or are some of the calories 'lost' in the whey resulting from the cheese making process?

I rarely make cheese - but the inequality of the caloric value seemed rather immense to me.

KarenJanine

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/102/2

This link shows the nutritional data for sweet whey liquid (the by-product of cheese making).

SheFoxyLady

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/102/2

This link shows the nutritional data for sweet whey liquid (the by-product of cheese making).

Thank you very much :drinker:

FredDoyle

Thanks KarenJanine.
The link is for sweet whey ie. cheese made from rennet. Ricotta, Paneer, cottage cheese etc. are acid whey (from vinegar or citrus) so it's not going to be quite the same. Hopefully it's close because I had the same question this weekend.

ETA: Here it is. Almost the same:

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/100/2

BigGuy47

I rarely make cheese - but the inequality of the caloric value seemed rather immense to me.

If you count cheese making as exercise it all evens out.