So I tried low fat cottage cheese...
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Christine_72 wrote: »I must be the only one who prefers the taste of low fat cottage. The low fat one is light and fluffy and the full fat one is stodgy and way too salty. Obvious full fat cottage cheese has better macros.
It might also depend on the brand, I've only tried the one brand low fat cc, but tried pretty much all of the full cream ones.
Nope. I love fat free cottage cheese, and I was raised on full fat cottage cheese because when I was young there was no fat free or low fat. The only fat free food I cannot eat is salad dressing. Reduced fat is okay but fat free salad dressing has a weird taste/aftertaste.0 -
1 cup low fat cottage cheese mixed with 1 can of tuna. delicious!1
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I prefer lowfat, too, though I wasn't excited about the non-fat I tried. Seemed to require a lot of dubious ingredients, too, though maybe it was just the brand. I prefer low/nonfat dairy in most categories, except regular cheese. I'd rather (for example) have some non-fat Greek yogurt & put coconut or peanuts in it, than have full-fat yogurt. I guess I like mix'n'match fat!0
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I've always eaten 2%. My grandma bought 4% when I was visiting, and I found I honestly prefer the 2%. Where I am now, I've only been able to get 1.5% or 4%, so I stick to the 1.5%. It's a taste thing, not a calorie-saving thing! I don't, however, like that fat-free stuff.0
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I've only ever eaten 1 or 2% but I eat it with a variety of fruit so it's like a dessert, only better for you! :-)0
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shortcdngirl wrote: »i opted not to eat "low fat" anything, accept my milk is 1 %. the lower the fat, the higher the sugar content. i did try low fat cottage cheese, but um, no.never again lol
THANK YOU!!! I am so glad someone else understands this. I am also doing low sugar/no added sugar, but everything else I'm eating is high fat/full fat other than the milk where I drink semi skimmed, as I don't like the taste of whole milk.
But yes when companies take the fat out of stuff it tastes gross, like cardboard, so what do they replace it with? Sugar!! And when the fructose part of the sugar (sugar is glucose and fructose) hits your liver it is processed into fat as your
Liver doesn't know what to do with it. Hence why a lot of people end up with non alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Little science lesson for ya there! Haha. It's really quite amazing what the food industry has done to the food supply. Please check sugar content as well.... 6 teaspoons a day (or around 25g) of added sugar (not fruit) is the official recommendation. Anything over 20g of
Sugar per 100g is considered a very high sugar food. Have a quick look at some of the low fat foods you're eating and see how much sugar is in it.
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Not only do I like the low fat cottage cheese, but I also like the "light" or low fat cheese. I prefer the texture.0
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I love cottage cheese, including non-fat. I appreciate the variety. I eat my cottage cheese with 0.5 cup of frozen fruit. It is delicious.
I am just the opposite of a picky eater. I love all the food.0 -
I tried both low and full fat when I started eating cottage cheese recently (spent my childhood thinking it looked and tasted like curdled milk). I go full fat, but will admit to buying the 2% if there's a really good sale
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shortcdngirl wrote: »i opted not to eat "low fat" anything, accept my milk is 1 %. the lower the fat, the higher the sugar content. i did try low fat cottage cheese, but um, no.never again lol
Oh yeah, that extra 1g of sugar really makes a huge difference
ETA: I picked 1% because it was cheaper. Maybe I'll give 2% a go if I find some cheap...0 -
I don't really mind it either.arditarose wrote: »Um. I guess I'm the only one who doesn't mind it
I don't like large curd cottage cheese and would rather get low fat than that.
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I honestly can't tell the difference. I've even had fat free. It all tastes like cottage cheese to me. I like it, though.0
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I'll only eat fat-free cottage cheese. I gag with milk that's higher than 1%, too. I was raised on skim everything, so full-fat dairy is really offensive and awful to me.
I don't know what brands everyone is buying that has so much added sugar, but my regular grocery store brand has 1 or 2 g more sugar per serving than full fat. It's not added, it's just that there's a higher % of lactose per serving since the fat has been removed.1 -
mskessler89 wrote: »I'll only eat fat-free cottage cheese. I gag with milk that's higher than 1%, too. I was raised on skim everything, so full-fat dairy is really offensive and awful to me.
I don't know what brands everyone is buying that has so much added sugar, but my regular grocery store brand has 1 or 2 g more sugar per serving than full fat. It's not added, it's just that there's a higher % of lactose per serving since the fat has been removed.
Yeah I'm surprised that people still believe that they add sugar in plain low fat dairy products.0 -
I used to do 1%, then upped it to 2% and now I do the full fat. The calories and fat content aren't that much different and I think it tastes loads better. I've actually pretty much stopped consuming non-fat/low fat foods. The taste of the "real" stuff is much better and worth the extra calories IMO.0
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mskessler89 wrote: »I'll only eat fat-free cottage cheese. I gag with milk that's higher than 1%, too. I was raised on skim everything, so full-fat dairy is really offensive and awful to me.
I don't know what brands everyone is buying that has so much added sugar, but my regular grocery store brand has 1 or 2 g more sugar per serving than full fat. It's not added, it's just that there's a higher % of lactose per serving since the fat has been removed.
Yeah I'm surprised that people still believe that they add sugar in plain low fat dairy products.
Well....you say you're surprised, but in the country I'm in (Switzerland) the ONLY cottage cheese that did not have added sugar in the ingredients was the full fat organic cottage cheese, so yes....there is added sugar in the cottage cheese I've been looking at. I'm not just talking about sugar listed in the ingredients, I'm talking about xantham gum, maltose,
Dextrose, maltodextrin. I've found these things in a lot of stuff.
I'm not arguing about if you want the low fat one, go for it. But just be aware of other sugars lurking in your products. Maybe there isn't added sugar, then that's great! ☺️
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louisepaul16 wrote: »mskessler89 wrote: »I'll only eat fat-free cottage cheese. I gag with milk that's higher than 1%, too. I was raised on skim everything, so full-fat dairy is really offensive and awful to me.
I don't know what brands everyone is buying that has so much added sugar, but my regular grocery store brand has 1 or 2 g more sugar per serving than full fat. It's not added, it's just that there's a higher % of lactose per serving since the fat has been removed.
Yeah I'm surprised that people still believe that they add sugar in plain low fat dairy products.
Well....you say you're surprised, but in the country I'm in (Switzerland) the ONLY cottage cheese that did not have added sugar in the ingredients was the full fat organic cottage cheese, so yes....there is added sugar in the cottage cheese I've been looking at. I'm not just talking about sugar listed in the ingredients, I'm talking about xantham gum, maltose,
Dextrose, maltodextrin. I've found these things in a lot of stuff.
I'm not arguing about if you want the low fat one, go for it. But just be aware of other sugars lurking in your products. Maybe there isn't added sugar, then that's great! ☺️
The U.S. lowfat cottage cheese I eat does not have any of those added sugars, and has only 4g sugars per serving, which sounds line with the inherent milk sugar. Nor does my nonfat milk, or nonfat plain Greek yogurt, have added sugar. There can be a slightly higher sugar content per serving from the inherent sugars, as compared with the full-fat equivalent, simply because when you take the fat out, the sugar becomes a higher percentage of the remaining milk product than it was when the fat "diluted" it.
It's true that the flavored nonfat yogurts and such have added sugar - sometimes quite a lot of it - but that's also true of the equivalent full-fat flavored yogurts. I've never compared to see if they differ in added sugar, because I find them all unpleasantly sweet. (I know others feel differently.)0 -
I've just done a bit of checking and the difference in sugar between low fat cottage cheese and milk compared to the full cream versions is 1-2g. So not enough to worry about IMO.2
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Until recently, I had only tried fat free cottage cheese. The upgrade from fat free to low fat makes me like it!! I'm an 80s/90s kid and there were never full fat products in the house, so I can't get used to it.0
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I agree. Brand is everything. I like Knudsen's 2%0
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Full fat - 2-4%, whatever your store carries. Low fat anything is usually code for chemical crapstorm, anyway. If you are watching carbs, they are usually higher on anything that says low fat vs higher fat options.0
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I cannot eat at all -- even the Lactaid brands.0
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I love cottage cheese in pretty much all its iterations (okay, except for low-sodium -- not a fan of that). However, I'm finding this discussion pretty amusing. Where I live (Germany), there are 3 levels of cottage cheese: full fat 20%, low fat 4%, or nonfat.
Had 'em all...don't get me wrong, 20% is pretty amazing, but for the amount I eat, nonfat works best for my goals. And like I said, I enjoy it pretty much any way I can get it.0 -
Just add some honey or flavoured protein powder and low fat cottage cheese tastes rather like a nice dessert.0
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melissafawnw wrote: »Until recently, I had only tried fat free cottage cheese. The upgrade from fat free to low fat makes me like it!! I'm an 80s/90s kid and there were never full fat products in the house, so I can't get used to it.
That must be because I grew up in France but we only had full fat stuff in the house!0 -
I've been eating Friendship brand 2% pot style and it's delicious. You're telling me the 4% is even better?
It would probably be like the time I accidentally bought full fat Cabot Greek yogurt and it was like eating cream cheese. That one however, was not worth the 400 calories a cup...0 -
AlisonH729 wrote: »I've been eating Friendship brand 2% pot style and it's delicious. You're telling me the 4% is even better?
It would probably be like the time I accidentally bought full fat Cabot Greek yogurt and it was like eating cream cheese. That one however, was not worth the 400 calories a cup...
Might have to switch to 2% as I can't find the 4% anywhere anymore
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It's so surprising to me that people can't find 4% cottage cheese. It's really common here (Chicago).
I got inspired by this thread to buy some yesterday (local farm brand, but it's available in all the store brands and mass market brands too), so will see if I like it better than I remember.
Not sure why I am doing this, as I love the 2% and it has fewer calories.1 -
This thread also inspired me to look for some 4% cottage cheese at my local grocery store.... And I couldn't find any! I did grab some 2% and am currently enjoying it with half a cup of blueberries. The last time I purchased cottage cheese I accidently picked up 1% and it was so watery and awful. I'm much happier with my 2%
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