Pick Your Fat; Which one is Better?

A client of mine was chatting to me about nutrition, and asked
"Which is healthier, chicken fat or fat from cheese?"

Well, chicken fat is animal fat, but technically, so is cheese as it comes from cows milk (we're talking about dairy cheese.

100 grams of chicken meat contains approximately 9 grams of fat, and it's high in linoleic acid.

100 grams of American cheese (varying types) has 32 grams of fat.

There are many types of cheese, some having higher amounts of fat than others.



Cheddar Per 100g: calories 412, fat 34.4g (saturates 21.7g), calcium 720mg

CHEDDAR is one of the highest-fat cheeses, which is bad news considering it's also one of our favourites. However, it is a great supplier of calcium and provides respectable quantities of zinc. Orange Cheddar is simply white Cheddar with added orange colouring.

Obviously cheese is not the best choice if you're trying to lose weight, as there are a lot of extra calories and fat going into your diet.

 If you have to have cheese though, try to pick a lower calorie, lower fat version such as Brie or fresh mozzarella. 

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