Healthiest cheese?

think48 · September 2010

What's the healthiest kind of cheese? I'm not into lowfat and fat free cheese. I want the real stuff! I'll eat "made with 2% milk" cheese, but that's it. So, I want to be able to put cheese on my sandwiches and in my foods - what kind is the least fat per serving? I've tried googling it, but can't find anything.

trainguy917 · September 2010

There's a kind of cheese we get at Sam's Club. It's Jarlsberg Light Swiss. It's low in fat but tastes like cheese. Only 50 calories a slice and, I think, 2.5 grams of fat.

think48 · September 2010

I'll have to look that up. I don't belong to a Sam's club, but maybe I can find it somewhere else. My guess was going to be Swiss. If that's true, that's good, I love it! Oh, well, I love ANY cheese.

Thanks!

frogmommy · September 2010

The reduced fat feta and reduced fat blue cheese are wonderful cheeses still full of flavor. I use both in salads, eggs, on top of burgers, chicken, mixed in with quinoa... The list goes on! Fat free varieties seem to have the texture of rubber, but the reduced fat types do not seem to. Also, Laughing Cow Light varieties are great spread on things or melted into things.

Samantharose8akaDebbie · September 2010

I buy the Sargento lowfat provolone and swiss slices and they taste just great! Come from a family of cheese eaters.......lol!

jillybeanruns · September 2010

Just a heads up...watch your sodium with the "low fat" and "reduced fat" cheeses. Sodium in 1 slice of cheese tends to be doubled or tripled in some - it's not worth the extra sodium to me

missboriken · September 2010

Goat cheese is healthier than cow milk cheese- it’s higher in calcium & protein; contains the amino acid tryptophan and also phosphorus. Goat cheese contains riboflavin or vitamin B2 (which plays important roles in the body's energy production), potassium (which helps prevent high blood pressure and protects against arteriosclerosis) , goat's milk contains 25 percent more vitamin B-6 than cow's, vitamin A is 47% higher in goat's milk, too. It has three times as much niacin as cow cheese & four times higher in copper & also contains 27 percent more of the antioxidant selenium than cow's milk.

If you prefer non-goat cheese- Parmesan cheese has the highest amount of calcium @ 1376mg of calcium per 100g serving (138% RDA), or 386mg (38% RDA) per ounce, and 69mg (7% RDA) per tablespoon- followed by Romano cheeses.

Regarding fat content, it's a myth that softness = healthiness and hardness= fat. Hard or soft, they all can be fatty. The difference in texture is because of moisture.

Processed cheese spreads and 2% cheeses....I agree with you, I rather have the real thing. And I should know... I work in the biggest mozzarella cheese plant in the world.

kdiamond · September 2010

Yes, I second goat cheese!! Very flavorful and low in calories! 1/4 cup of full fat goat cheese has less calories than 1/4 cup of reduced fat feta, and 10x the flavor!