Our Cottage Cheese Selection 🥄

😁We’re smiling about the 5-Spoon rating for our cottage cheese selection!🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄

Based on quality of ingredients and commitment to the true spirit of organic, the Cornucopia Institute rates products and develops scorecards as a tool for thoughtful shoppers like you, to make confident purchases. Love Whole Foods is committed to always improving our offerings. With more choices than ever, narrowing-down the selection of products that you can feel good about purchasing is our goal.

What is cottage cheese?

Cottage cheese is made from the curds of cow’s milk, making a soft white cheese with a mild flavor. Unlike many other cheeses, it is not pressed or aged. Instead, it is drained so that it retains some of the whey (it was historically called curds and whey). 

The quality of cottage cheese is dependent on the quality of the milk it is derived from. Cornucopia’s research findings show that the best choice is always USDA certified organic cottage cheese, which consists almost entirely of the wholesome, highly nutritious ingredient from which it was derived: organic milk.

Cornucopia’s report, Weighing the Curds, helps consumers separate nutritious options from overly processed concoctions.

“Cornucopia’s analysis found that organic cottage cheese products are far superior to their conventional counterparts,” says Anne Ross, Cornucopia’s director of international policy. “This is, in part, because most organic brands stay true to the simplicity of authentic cottage cheese.” Most conventional milk also contains pesticides, antibiotics, and synthetic hormone residues.

“Cottage cheese from grass-fed cows can have increased nutritional benefits when compared to cheese made from milk derived from dairy cows raised in conventional confinement and fed a diet high in concentrates including grain and soy,” said Kestrel Burcham, Cornucopia’s director of domestic policy. “When you buy authentic organic dairy products, you support farmers who promote soil health and high animal welfare standards not seen elsewhere in the dairy industry.”

Picking the highest-quality brands out of a crowded dairy case is only getting tougher.

“As more manufacturers seek to cash in on the growing popularity of cottage cheese, we want to give dairy consumers the information they need to separate the occasional treat from a nutritious food, while identifying products they might consider eliminating altogether,” observed Ross.

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