Wondering if and how cheese and dairy fit into a Mediterranean Diet? If you love your dairy, you can relax. Because in a Mediterranean Diet cheese and dairy are definitely on the menu! In fact, the kind of dairy regularly eaten as part of the Mediterranean diet is not...
Potato, potato, tomato, tomato. Then we have fetta or feta! Which one is correct? Is there a difference between the two spellings in Australia? Why do you spell Olympus Fetta with two t’s? We give you the scoop on these two cheeses, and show you why they aren’t and...
How healthy is halloumi? That’s a bit of a tongue twister to start with! We know halloumi is tasty, and it’s certainly one of those cheeses that you can’t stop eating once you’ve started. But let’s get down to halloumi cheese nutrition – how healthy is it? We...
Did you know, that bone is a metabolically active tissue? This means that old bone is broken down, and new bone is made by our bodies throughout our lives. Our bone density depletes as we age, and this is made worse if we don’t look after them. So how can we...
If you’re looking to up your calcium intake, dairy foods are a great source. Dairy foods (particularly yoghurt and most cheeses) are a healthy and easily absorbed source of calcium and have been part of the human diet for some 8000 years. Dairy is also more...
Did you know that more than half of Australian adults do not meet their recommended daily intake of calcium? Breaking this down even more – only one in four females and one in two males meet their calcium requirements from food. “So what!?” you might be...