http://www.curdsnwhey.com/if-i-make-ricotta-cheese-from-one-glass-of-milk-will-it-have-as-much-clacium-as-one-glass-milk-has/ Questions and Answers about Cheese Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:48:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.curdsnwhey.com/if-i-make-ricotta-cheese-from-one-glass-of-milk-will-it-have-as-much-clacium-as-one-glass-milk-has/comment-page-1/#comment-3207 mike1942 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:01:04 +0000 http://www.curdsnwhey.com/if-i-make-ricotta-cheese-from-one-glass-of-milk-will-it-have-as-much-clacium-as-one-glass-milk-has/#comment-3207 The problem is - how much of the calcium ends up in the ricotta - this site http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Che… says that ricotta is made from the whey AFTER other cheese is made, so some of the calcium from the <a href="http://www.curdsnwhey.com/cheese-milk/">milk</a> will have gone into the base cheese. a "glass" of <a href="http://www.curdsnwhey.com/cheese-milk/">milk</a> is officially 8 ounces which has has 306 mg in 8 oz of skim <a href="http://www.curdsnwhey.com/cheese-milk/">milk</a> (or whole I found) and has about 250 grams mass. So 100 grams of <a href="http://www.curdsnwhey.com/cheese-milk/">milk</a> would have about 120 mg of calcium *below*http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsou… ricotta whole <a href="http://www.curdsnwhey.com/cheese-milk/">milk</a> cheese has 150 mg per serving (1/4 cup, 62 gm) http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/it… (click on nuitition details) ** so to get 120mg of calcium from ricotta would take 50 gm or about 0.2 cup of ricotta The problem is – how much of the calcium ends up in the ricotta – this site http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Che…
says that ricotta is made from the whey AFTER other cheese is made, so some of the calcium from the milk will have gone into the base cheese.
a “glass” of milk is officially 8 ounces which has
has 306 mg in 8 oz of skim milk (or whole I found) and has about 250 grams mass. So 100 grams of milk would have about 120 mg of calcium *below*http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsou…
ricotta whole milk cheese has 150 mg per serving (1/4 cup, 62 gm) http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/it…
(click on nuitition details)
** so to get 120mg of calcium from ricotta would take 50 gm or about 0.2 cup of ricotta

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