Women on a diet prefer to choose healthy and nutritious cheeses with a minimum fat content, as some nutritionists recommend eating a cheese product, the fat content of which does not exceed 5%. Such cheeses are most often sold in expensive grocery stores or large hypermarkets.
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Types of Cheeses
Cheeses with a fat content of 5% include brands such as Valio Polar, Grunlander, Fitness, Homemade Cheese, Village House, as well as feta cheese and granular cottage cheese. Chechil cheese is similar in texture to Georgian suluguni cheese, but it is a pigtail made of dense fibrous filaments that contain a large amount of salt and are often sold in smoked form. Low-fat Grunlander, Fitness and Valio Polar cheeses contain about 148 kcal.
When buying low-fat cheeses, you need to carefully read the package, since some of them may include 5% not fat, but yogurt.
Light feta cheese or feta light is considered a dietary product - unlike regular feta cheese with a high percentage of fat content, it can be safely added to various salads and consumed as a snack. Granular cottage cheese is a type of homemade cottage cheese with low fat content, which is sold in the form of curd grain mixed with slightly salted fresh cream. It is usually used as an independent full-fledged dish, and various salads with the addition of vegetables are also prepared from granular cottage cheese.