You've seen the neat little drawings of the placenta -- your baby's life support system in utero -- but you'd... You've seen the neat little drawings of the placenta -- your baby's life support system in utero -- but you'd be right to realize that those diagrams don't look all that much like the real thing.ou've seen the neat little drawings of the placenta -- your baby's life support system in utero -- but you'd be right to realize that those diagrams don't look all that much like the real thing.
Besides being higher in calcium than cottage cheese, ricotta cheese is also lower in sodium, with 123 milligrams per 1/2 cup compared with 420 milligrams in a serving of cottage cheese. Use ricotta cheese as a substitute for cottage cheese in lasagna or spinach pie.
Cottage Cheese was typically made as a low fat or skimmed milk cheese but with the more modern addition of cream following the final curd production it may have a butterfat of 4% or higher. A low fat version of .5-2% butterfat as well as a dry curd Cottage Cheese with less than .5% butterfat can still be found.