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Health-conscious millennials, Gen Zers are making cottage cheese cool again—but is it really that good for you?

It turns out that cottage cheese can have great benefits for your health, according to Dr. Cate Shanahan, a renowned physician and author of “Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food.”
Cottage cheese has “living beneficial microbes” that are very nutritious, Shanahan tells CNBC Make It. Probiotic microbes found in cottage cheese can improve gut health.
And like other cheeses, cottage cheese contains calcium, vitamins A and K2, as well as protein, she notes. It also has potassium and small amounts of zinc in it, according to the USDA.
These nutrients combined can help keep your bones and teeth strong, says Shanahan. “Vitamin K2 helps calcium get into all sorts of cells in the body. It doesn’t just help our bone health. It helps our muscles. It helps our nervous system. It helps everything,” she adds.
Is cottage cheese healthier than other cheeses?
Compared to other cheeses, including American cheese, cottage cheese is a much healthier option because it’s less processed, says Shanahan.
“Cottage cheese is healthier than American cheese because it’s fermented and has some live bacteria in there [like] yogurt has,” she says.
“But [other] cheese, like cheddar, no longer does, because it’s fermented so long that the bacteria sort of dry up and they die.”
Yet, Qi Sun, associate professor in the departments of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has a different opinion.

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