Posted on 06/06/2009 5:21:22 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Edited on 06/06/2009 6:24:54 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Hispanic style cheese known as Queso Fresco or "fresh cheese" may contribute to preventing and fighting obesity and other related health problems.
Several studies have demonstrated that eating dairy foods while consuming a low-calorie diet can work together to speed up metabolism and as a result help reduce fat and body weight.
According to these studies, adults who consumed the recommended daily intakes of calcium in dairy products while consuming a low-calorie diet tended to lose significantly more body weight and body fat than those who consumed only a balanced, reduced-calorie diet with little or no dairy foods.
The latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend children and adults consume three servings every day of calcium-rich foods, such as Queso Fresco cheese.
"Queso Fresco contains less calories, fat and cholesterol than other cheeses such as Cheddar, Mozzarella, or processed cheese products like Velveeta(R) while providing the recommended daily calcium intake," said Elizabeth Castro, VP of Sales and Marketing at Houston-based Castro Cheese Company. "It's an excellent option for those who want or need to reduce weight."
"There's great interest in exploring the benefits of Hispanic cheeses because of obesity problems that children and adults face," continued Castro.
"Fresh cheese" or Queso Fresco is one of the most commonly used ingredients of Hispanic foods, and it is becoming increasingly popular on American tables. It has a soft, mild flavor and firm but creamy consistency that puts it somewhere between ricotta, mozzarella, and white cheddar.
Hispanic cheese is one of the fastest growing food categories in the United States. Production jumped about 183% percent from 1996 to 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service ( http://www.usda.gov/nass/ ).
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To view the nutrient profiles for 7 types of cheese (100 gr.) taken from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) web site click the following link: Nutrition facts for 7 cheeses
(http://vaquitacheese.com/cheesenutrition).
About Castro Cheese
Founded in 1971, Castro Cheese Company is a leading manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of Hispanic cheeses and creams. The company markets its products under the "La Vaquita"(R) brand and is well known for the high quality and authenticity of its products. Castro's customers include wholesalers, grocery retailers, and mass merchandisers.
For more information about Castro Cheese Company http://www.vaquitacheese.com
The product names used in this press release are for identification purposes only. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE Castro Cheese
Do hispanic women stop eating it at 35 or something?
Why are there no skinny mexicans then?
I guess Hispanic guys never eat it. Most of them look like those kiddie bop clowns that bounce back up on their fat behinds.
Puhleeeeeze. Judge Sonia if up for nomimation and this make her and her people wiser. When could you ever imagine this article appearing? We Americans are being phased out by the press. What ehy don’t realize is they’re next.
And can someone tell me why Hispancica have a gripe with Americans but embrace the term “hispspanic” which was forced on them by the country who wiped out their native cultures?
ROTFLMAO........
With the introduction of the cow to Mexico the native Mexicans (who weren't being killed off by plagues and such) quickly discovered they could not eat European cheese without serious distress.
It probably took them two weeks to figure out how to remove the milk sugar, and they did so with gusto.
Due to a lack of refrigeration back in the 1500s they didn't really have the opportunity to learn about the low-sugar characteristics of aged cheddar.
I've found that Spanish cheeses still need to be "aged" to grind out that last little bit of offending lactose.
Now, the most important thing ~ cheese has it's own statin. Otherwise baby cows (calves) would be overwhelmed by the cholesterol in their mothers' milk and would die by the carload before reaching 135 lbs.
When you eat Queso or any other cheese you receive the benefit of the anti-cholesterol drug formerly in the milk. I suspect the process that removes or reduces the lactose also de-links the anti-cholesterol drug and makes it more available to do whatever it does to allow the retenton of HDL and the elimination of LDL. That right there would lead to some serious obesity if all you ate were beans, cornmeal and Queso. The solution is for the Latinas to cut back on the cornmeal!
so why Hispanic cheese?....sounds like somebody's trying to be "diverse".....
cottage cheese is lowfat too....
Uhhhh, I don’t think this will be the “new” health food.
Unless, my personal observation of the culture that eats this cheese is somehow resistant to its slimming qualities.
LOL.....but, I do like cheese of all types.
Oops! I meant “Tehuana Mama”!!
Pregnant women are always told not to eat this cheese as it can contain listeria or something.
I used to work with a lot of Hispanic women. They said once they have the first child, they turn into blimps.
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