Curd cheese: calories, composition, types

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A favorite product for breakfast is curd cheese and its analogues. This product is provided in a wide range. There are many variations of this product with different tastes: mushrooms, salmon, greens, etc. Please note: high quality curd cheese should contain only natural additives, i.e. pieces of fish, mushrooms, greens. When artificial flavors and synthetic fillers are included in it, the benefit of such a valuable product can be nullified. In our today's material, we will present the types, composition of curd cheese and calorie content.

Characteristic

Curd cheese is completely different from its other semi-hard or hard counterparts. It has a soft delicate texture, easily spread on bread or a bun. By its structure, this cheese is more similar to cottage cheese. Both of these products have similar properties, unlike other cheeses, they do notgoing through the maturation stage.

Curd cheese: ingredients

In a natural product, cream or milk, s alt, milk starter must be indicated. If different types of preservatives or flavor improvers are indicated on the package, such a product should be discarded. As part of high-quality cheeses of this type, there is a sufficient amount of valuable animal protein, as well as a host of other equally useful natural substances. 100 g of cheese contains 10% calcium and 20% phosphorus from the daily norm, which a person needs every day. As for the calorie content of curd cheese, there are an average of 317 kcal per 100 g. However, this indicator may change in one direction or another, depending on which flavors were included in the product.

How to choose the right one

Ideally, a quality product should be tender and smooth in texture. The presence of whey in it, and even more mold on the surface, indicates that the curd cheese is of poor quality or spoiled. If the package indicates that the product is thermized, this means that it has received a special heat treatment and can be stored for a long time (up to 4 months) without changing consumer and quality characteristics.

Types of curd cheeses

This product has a pasty or curd texture. Freshly made cheeses are practically not pressed or aged. They have a rather soft texture. Currently, there are a large number of different varieties that are created by Russiancheese makers or brought to Russia from other countries. The most famous representatives of curd cheeses:

• ricotta;
• mozzarella;
• feta;
• mascarpone.

Ricotta

Cheese made in the best traditions of Italian cheese making. It is produced from the fresh milk of cows. From Italian, the word "ricotta" is translated as "re-boiled", which gives an idea of the method of preparation. After the mass is removed from the whey, some of the pieces from the clot still remain. The further technological process proceeds as follows: the whey is boiled again until the pieces rise to the surface. After that, they are taken out of the whey, left to mature for several days. Young ricotta cheese has a velvety, slightly sour taste. In Friol, this cheese is usually smoked. Some of the most popular varieties of this cheese, in addition to the milk mixture, include pepper and herbs. Calorie curd cheese ricotta 174 kcal/100 g.

Feta

This cheese is prepared according to traditional Greek recipes. To get real cheese, you should take only sheep's milk. According to an old recipe, freshly dispensed milk was poured into a bag from the stomach of a goat, and resin from fig tree branches was added to it. Today, in cooking, sourdough is used to curdle milk more quickly. After the whey has been drained, the wet mass is placed in linen bags and pressed. When the mass dries, it is cut into pieces and placed in brine. The calorie content of this cheese is 264 kcal/100 g.

Mozzarella

This unusually delicious Italian cheese is made from buffalo milk. Curdled milk is placed in warm water, where it becomes very elastic and eventually breaks down into fibers, which in turn, when placed in hot water, roll into balls. This is what mozzarella cheese looks like. It has a snow-white hue, a sour taste and the smell of milk. Such cheese is placed and stored in whey or brine, but its shelf life is rather short. Some cheese makers prefer to smoke this cheese, thereby extending its shelf life. In the modern world, it is customary to make this cheese from cow's milk, but its taste has nothing to do with mozzarella made from buffalo milk. The calorie content of curd cheese is 280 kcal per 100 g of the product.

Mascarpone

This product is a fresh cream cheese that has no analogues in the world. It is soft, oily, more like butter. The cheese has a very delicate, amazing taste and is considered ideal for preparing a wide variety of dishes, such as dessert such as tiramisu. Its calorie content is 412 kcal/100 g.

Creamy

"Hochland Kremette" is one of the creamy cheeses with a light delicate taste and an interesting structure. It consists of cottage cheese, pasteurized milk, milk-clotting enzyme, bacterial starter. It should not contain any flavors and harmful additives. The calorie content of "Hochland Kremette" is 297 kcal. Curd cheese is widely used in cooking and confectionery. Its taste goes well with the taste of fish. Due to the fact that it can be easily shaped, it is often used to make rolls.

With greens

Hochland curd cheese with herbs has long found its customers on the market. The product has a very delicate, textured curd-creamy texture, an unusually rich aroma and a pleasant taste with a barely noticeable curd sourness. The cheese is perfectly smeared, does not spread and retains its shape. Sold in plastic packaging with a lid, under which there is foil. This product can be stored for up to 4 months, once opened it should be used within a week when refrigerated. The composition of curd cheese with herbs includes milk (cream), cottage cheese, bacterial sourdough, a special enzyme of microbial origin, s alt, vegetables, milk powder, onion essence, citric acid. The product contains vitamins and minerals. Calorie content of cheese per 100 g of the product is 212 kcal.

It can provoke allergic reactions due to the fact that it contains milk protein. In addition, it is quite high in calories, so it should be consumed in moderation. Used curd cheese as a snack in combination with vegetables.