Tesco lies

Haffiana

Hmm. My guess is that the value one is made using freeze dried reconstituted skimmed milk - the carb profile fits that. The other is made using a semi skimmed milk.

Cottage cheese, like most cheeses, is made using just milk. Cream etc is only added if the basic product is made using skimmed rather than whole milk which gives rise to a rather sour cottage cheese. The above cottage cheeses have no added cream however.

If you want to taste what real cottage cheese should taste like, try Loseley or Waitrose standard cottage cheese. Both are made with whole milk. In my opinion, it is better to eat a little of the good stuff (still a low fat product at 5-6% fat) rather than more of the thin, sour low-fat stuff!

Edwardia

My mother is a serial dieter so one of my earliest childhood memories is of her eating cottage cheese on Ryvita. It's in my brain as something healthy so I never bothered reading the ingredients most of the time - until last year. Finding glucose syrup, water and additives in pork loin steaks made me start reading labels and going :eek:

There are cottage cheeses which are inexpensive and made without additives. There are others which are supposed to be good for us but contain additives, starches and thickeners.

Tesco Everyday Value cottage cheese doesn't contain additives but I have to say it doesn't taste good.

On taste grounds, I'd prefer Longley Farm cottage cheese (either natural or with chives) and the lowest price I've found is at ASDA.

I do think that supermarkets are duplicitous when it comes to labelling and especially so when as OP points out, they don't stock the product they are comparing their own

valk_scot

Lidl sell an absolutely brilliant cottage cheese at 44p for 200g. No idea if it's low fat or not (can't be bothered to go and look in the fridge) but it tastes great. Well worth trying if you're in the shop anyway.

stephen77

1) The "light" will mean it will have to be below a certain fat / kcals criteria to be in the that range.
fat will help with the flavour & mouthfeel so they do not want it completely void of fat.

2) the nutritional label will most likely generated from 3 different batches of products. These will vary a little. So the light bit less fat some times and the value may have a little more. They are not 100% accurate.

3) most people do not have much cottage cheese a day eg say 100g. Thus we are talking 1g of fat , 9kcals. In the grand scheme of things that is a small amount

Fire_Fox

There really is not enough saturated fat in cottage cheese nor milk to worry about unless you are on a medical very low fat diet, cottage cheese is also a poor source of calcium so not something to rely on as a daily dairy serving.

Concentrate on fatty cuts of raw meat, any cooked or processed meats, hard cheese and butter. Balance that out with more oily fish, nuts, seeds, avocados, whole olives, coconut and cocoa powder.

honey2009

I always just stick to regular. Its not about eating reduced fat products its about cutting down portions and eating properly. I have lost over 2 stones sticking to this simple formula.