Cottage cheese is a fermented milk product that is obtained, squash milk and removing the resulting serum. With this treatment, milk protein becomes the most accessible for the action of digestive enzymes, and is much easier to digest. The curd contains a lot of essential amino acid methionine, which prevents the development of liver diseases, regulates fat metabolism, facilitates depressive states of the person, helps the absorption of calcium. The latter is especially important, because in cottage cheese there is a lot of this microelement: 120-150 mg in 100 grams of product. Cottage cheese is usually divided by the content of fat in it:
- fat (18%);
- bold (9%);
- low-fat (no more than 3%).
The number of calories in curd depends, in the first place, on its fat content. So, in fat cottage cheese contains as much as 236 kilocalories per 100 g of product, in bold - 169 kilocalories, and the caloric content of low-fat cottage cheese is only 88 kilocalories.
To the non-fat curd, and so-called cereal curd, although strictly speaking, it is something middle between cottage cheese and cheese, and it will be more correctly called curd cheese. It is a curd grain in which fresh, slightly salted cream is added. This product is stored longer than traditional cottage cheese. Caloric content of cereal curd is 155 kilocalories.
How to choose the right cottage cheese?
The first thing you should pay attention to when selecting cottage cheese in a store is packing. It should be undamaged, without streaks, and all the inscriptions should be well read. Also do not forget to look at the expiration date. Packing of cottage cheese should not be expanded - this may indicate the presence in the product
How many calories will be in the home curd, depends largely on the fat content of the milk from which you have prepared it. If the milk was whole (3.5-6% fat), then in the curd cooked from it, there will be about 18% fat, hence, the caloric content will be approximately like that of fat cottage cheese - 230-240 calories.