What is farmer cheese?
Farmer cheese is cultured from reduced fat milk (a combination of skim milk and cream), making it nutritionally equivalent to dry curd cottage cheese. Farmer Cheese is low in lactose at less than 0.5%. Regular Farmer Cheese has a small amount of salt added, but is also available in a “no salt added” variety. And for those who follow the “Specific Carbohydrate Diet” (SCD) guidelines or watch their diets due to digestive concerns and/or aversion to lactose, Farmer Cheese is very low in lactose containing less than 0.5% lactose.
Farmer cheese is cultured from reduced fat milk (a combination of skim milk and cream), making it nutritionally equivalent to dry curd cottage cheese. Farmer Cheese is low in lactose at less than 0.5%. Regular Farmer Cheese has a small amount of salt added, but is also available in a “no salt added” variety. And for those who follow the “Specific Carbohydrate Diet” (SCD) guidelines or watch their diets due to digestive concerns and/or aversion to lactose, Farmer Cheese is very low in lactose containing less than 0.5%.