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Fresh cheese

Fresh cheese is a soft cheese made from milk. Cooks treat it as a dairy ingredient.

  • Dairy
  • May contain animal rennet
  • Allergen: milk

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Dairy & eggs
Made from
Milk
Part used
Milk
Texture
Soft
Cooked most in
The Americas, Europe
Top country
Germany
Fresh cheese, whole

Photo: E4024 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Soft

Nutrition

What 100 g of fresh cheese holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 64%Fat 4%Carbohydrate 31%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of fresh cheese
Energy105 kcal · 441 kJ
Protein16 g
Fat1 g
of which saturated0.64 g
Carbohydrate7.7 g
of which sugars5.5 g
Fibre0 g
Sodium702 mg
Cholesterol12 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of fresh cheese: minerals and vitamins
Potassium278 mg
Calcium351 mg
Iron0.19 mg
Magnesium22 mg
Zinc1.5 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)11 µg
Folate35 µg
Vitamin B120.95 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 172207), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

On the table

Dishes made with fresh cheese

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Enchilada potosina

    Mexico

  • Spundekäs

    Germany

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include fresh cheese.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: fresh cheese in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Contains: milk
Animal origin
From: dairySometimes animal rennet (many cheeses are made with animal rennet; vegetarian cheeses use microbial rennet)Checked and not found: egg, fish, meat, honey, insect, poultry, shellfish, other animal.
Caffeine
None

Family

Related forms

Made from
milk
A kind of
cheese
Kinds
quark

Around the world

What fresh cheese is called

Names in 40 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    queso fresco · Quesillo · queso blanco

  • French

    fromage frais · fromage blanc

  • Italian

    formaggio fresco

  • Portuguese

    queijo fresco

  • German

    Frischkäse

  • Dutch

    roomkaas · cream cheese · verse kaas

  • Russian

    свежий сыр · свежие сыры

  • Polish

    twarożek · ser twarogowy · świeży ser

  • Arabic

    جبنة سائلة · جبن سائل · جبنة دهن · جبن دهن

  • Hebrew

    גבינת שמנת

  • Hindi

    मलाई पनीर

  • Bangla

    ক্রিম পনির

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  • Albanian

    krem djathi

  • Armenian

    թարմ պանիր

  • Asturian

    quesu fresco

  • Basque

    gazta fresko · gazta berri

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    сьвежы сыр · тварожны сыр

  • Catalan

    formatge fresc · Formatges frescos

  • Czech

    čerstvý sýr

  • Danish

    friskost

  • Esperanto

    freŝa fromaĝo

  • Finnish

    tuorejuusto

  • Galician

    queixo fresco

  • Icelandic

    Fromage frais

  • Indonesian

    Queso blanco

  • Irish

    fromage frais

  • Japanese

    フレッシュチーズ · ケソ・フレスコ

  • Korean

    생치즈

  • Latvian

    svaigais siers

  • Macedonian

    младо сирење

  • Malay

    keju segar

  • Malay (Arabic)

    کيجو سݢر

  • Malayalam

    ഫ്രെഷ് ചീസ്

  • Odia

    ପନୀର

  • Punjabi

    ਮਲਾਈ ਪਨੀਰ

  • Serbian

    млади сир

  • Slovenian

    sveži sir

  • Swedish

    färskost

  • Swiss German

    Frischkäse

  • Ukrainian

    сир

  • Uzbek

    Oq pishloq

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q3323634

Photos

Photo: E4024 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons