Misleading label on cottage cheese
By Lena Kovadlo
@lovebuglena (47104)
Staten Island, New York
July 2, 2025 9:21am CST
I usually buy farmer cheese only. While at the supermarket yesterday I saw that Daisy cottage cheese was on sale. I’ve never tried it and decided to get it as I’m out of farmer cheese at the moment.
In the front of the container it says that the cottage cheese has live and active cultures, and only milk, cream, and salt. It is 4% milkfat.
I just took it out of the fridge and looked at the back of the container. In the ingredients list it says cultured SKIM milk, not whole milk, which 4% indicates. So what is it—whole milk or skim?
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@Orson_Kart (7510)
• United Kingdom
2 Jul
You’ve been conned. There’s no substitute for the rich, creamy, unctuousness of whole milk curds. They’ve added cream to try and make up for the watery, flavourless, skimmed milk curds. I once tried a similar cottage cheese here from Tesco, which had cream and even crème fraiche added, but it was a poor substitute. I’ve seen cottage cheese being made in a dairy, and they only use full-fat milk.
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@Orson_Kart (7510)
• United Kingdom
3 Jul
@lovebuglena Skimmed milk is like water. I’m ok with semi-skimmed, but nothing beats the creaminess of full-fat milk. In fact cream in coffee takes it to another level, but it’s not something I drink these days.
We were pushed towards less fat milk because the health experts told us that saturated fat raised cholesterol levels. Now there is evidence to dispute this. Who to believe?
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@lovebuglena (47104)
• Staten Island, New York
3 Jul
Skim milk or any over milk other than whole milk is nasty to me. And it’s not even good for you. And yet people drink it thinking it’s better for them. I had coffee at someone’s house once (I only drink it with milk) and all they had was reduced fat milk. It ruined the coffee for me and I couldn’t drink it.
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@lovebuglena (47104)
• Staten Island, New York
3 Jul
I know now to look at the ingredients list and not just the milkfat % before buying cottage cheese.
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@lovebuglena (47104)
• Staten Island, New York
3 Jul
Perhaps so. Still, why couldn’t they do whole milk and cream? Why the need for skim milk?
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@lovebuglena (47104)
• Staten Island, New York
3 Jul
@porwest Perhaps they thought by adding cream to skim milk it’d make the cottage cheese taste better. It doesn’t in my opinion.
@porwest (102424)
• United States
3 Jul
@lovebuglena It's probably to save money. That's usually why a business does anything. lol
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@DaddyEvil (152384)
• United States
2 Jul
If it tests out at 4% milkfat, then it is whole milk... Whole milk has 3.2% to 4% milkfat in it. Skim milk has around .1% (point 1%) milkfat in it.
@DaddyEvil (152384)
• United States
2 Jul
@lovebuglena It could be labeled like that because they made the cottage cheese from skim milk and then added enough butterfat to bring it up to the 4% listed on the label.
@lovebuglena (47104)
• Staten Island, New York
2 Jul
@DaddyEvil as NJChicca pointed out, it has cream so maybe that’s why they say 4% milkfat.
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@lovebuglena (47104)
• Staten Island, New York
2 Jul
Yes. The question is, which is it in reality—whole milk or part skim milk inside the cottage cheese? If it’s part skim milk package shouldn’t say 4% milkfat on it. And likewise, if it’s whole milk (as the 4% suggests) ingredients shouldn’t say part skim milk.
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@lovebuglena (47104)
• Staten Island, New York
3 Jul
Not a big fan. Won’t be buying it again.
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@lovebuglena (47104)
• Staten Island, New York
3 Jul
@rakski As they say, you won’t know till you try.
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@lovebuglena (47104)
• Staten Island, New York
2 Jul
They are saying it’s 4% milkfat which would make it whole milk. Yet the ingredients list says part skim milk. That’s not 4%. So which it?
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@NJChicaa (123471)
• United States
2 Jul
@lovebuglena It says that it contains skim milk *and* cream. Cream obviously contains fat.
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@lovebuglena (47104)
• Staten Island, New York
2 Jul
@NJChicaa Oops. I forgot about it containing cream.
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@MarieCoyle (45817)
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2 Jul
The skim milk version is less calories and tastes good, I always buy that one.
@lovebuglena (47104)
• Staten Island, New York
2 Jul
I prefer everything to be from whole milk. It tastes so much better.
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@lovebuglena (47104)
• Staten Island, New York
2 Jul
@MarieCoyle it seems ever since I switched to farmer cheese, cottage cheese just doesn’t taste like it used to anymore.
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@MarieCoyle (45817)
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2 Jul
@lovebuglena
We have a brand here, Prairie Farms, that makes many dairy products. I never buy their milk at all, as it's actually twice the price of the generic milk brands. But their cottage cheese is the best ever, and the lowfat version is every bit as delicious as the full fat version.
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@lovebuglena (47104)
• Staten Island, New York
2 Jul
Perhaps it’s the cream that makes it 4%. I did not consider that. I was just thinking of the milk.
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@Ineeddentures (8265)
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2 Jul
Nothing misleading about it at all Lena.
Seems ok to me
Be good as it has cream on it
Better than whole milks
