The Cottage Cheese Swap Recipes Nutritionists Say You Should Try
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These low-fat, high-protein hacks have gone viral for a reason.
Cottage cheese has emerged from ignominy to become the trending star of social media, and it’s not a bad thing. Pureed to make high-protein “ice cream,” cookie dough and queso, good old cottage cheese is suddenly hot. But are these viral swaps really better for you?
Some of us (ahem) are old enough to remember when cottage cheese was the ’70s “it girl” of diet foods, but watched it fade into bland obscurity by the ’90s. Maybe it was the association with your mom’s diet food, paired with the ascent of cultured, gut-healthy yogurt, that pushed cottage cheese to the side of the dairy shelf. But in recent years, probiotic and even artisanal cottage cheese products have given our old friend a boost. Cottage cheese is cheap, it’s easy and it has the protein we crave.