Cottage Cheese vs Parmesan: All Nutritional Differences

Less Calories in Cottage cheese

At first glance, you can see that in cottage cheese is much less calories than in Parmesan.

Cottage cheese has 98 kcal per 100g and Parmesan 392 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 300%.

Additionally, it is also easy to notice that most of the calories in cottage cheese cames from protein and in Parmesan from fat.

See tables below to compare cottage cheese with Parmesan in details.

Cottage cheese And Parmesan Nutrition Difference

• Calories:
  Parmesan - 300% more than cottage cheese
• Carbohydrates:
  cottage cheese - 5% more than Parmesan
• Fat:
  Parmesan - 481% more than cottage cheese
• Protein:
  Parmesan - 221% more than cottage cheese
• Water:
  cottage cheese - 166% more than Parmesan

Less protein in cottage cheese

It is aslo easy to see see that in cottage cheese is less protein than in Parmesan.

There is 35.75g per 100g of Parmesan and 11.12g per 100g of cottage cheese so using simple math we can see that difference is about 221%.

More carbohydrates in cottage cheese

In cottage cheese is more carbohydrates than in Parmesan.

There is 3.22g/100g of carbohydrates in Parmesan and 3.38g/100g in cottage cheese so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 5%.

Less fat in cottage cheese

In cottage cheese is less fats than in Parmesan.

The tables above show us that there is 25g/100g of fats in Parmesan and 4.3g/100g in cottage cheese. In this case difference is about 481%.

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