What You Don’t Know About Cottage Cheese

Big Weight Reduction! It takes 100 pounds of milk just to make 15 pounds of cottage cheese.

Fresh and Lively! Cottage cheese is a fresh cheese made of strained and seasoned curds of skim milk. Unlike many hard cheeses, cottage cheese is an uncured cheese (one that has not been aged).

What's in a name? Cottage cheese is also known as pot cheese, farm cheese, or farmer's cheese.

Favorite Partners. Cottage cheese is often eaten with fruits, vegetables, or in salads.

Which one? Cottage cheese comes in three forms: small, medium, and large - curds. They all taste the same but allow for texture preferences.

An average American eats 2.5 pounds of cottage cheese a year - less than half their consumption of yogurt, another favorite dairy product.

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