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Goat Cheese: Is It Healthy?

But we’re not gonna kid you: many of our experts skipped right past the nutritionals and into pure cheese hedonism. “I consider good goat cheese, great bread and fine wine about the best culinary combination the planet has ever devised,” says David Katz, MD, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center. “This is not a health food! But then again, pleasure is good for health, and as an occasional treat for those who love it as we do, goat cheese is very pleasurable stuff.”

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Let’s face it: cheese is fattening. In fact, the typical cheese made from cow’s milk contains about 110 calories and 11 g of fat per ounce. Eighty of those calories are from fat, making up 73% of the calories from fat–ew! On the other hand, goat cheese contains around 75 calories and five and a half grams of fat for the same amount and only 64% of goat cheese’s calories are from fat. This means you could eat two ounces of goat cheese for every one ounce of cow cheese and still consume the same amount of fat.

These Health Benefits Make Goat Cheese Even More Magical

While goat cheese isn’t the healthiest food in the world, Yale’s Prevention Research Center director Dr. David Katz still makes a great case for goat cheese consumption. “Pleasure is good for health,” Dr. Katz says. “And as an occasional treat for those who love it as we do, goat cheese is very pleasurable stuff.” To be honest, I wouldn’t have stopped splurging on goat cheese even if all of these experts said it was the worst food out there. But still, it’s nice for us cheese lovers to hear that indulging in this delicacy isn’t a bad thing.

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So what's your best bet? Goat cheese. Yes, those bleating little creatures that love to nibble on cans and kick each other over produce cheese that's better for you and for the planet than the stuff that comes from cows.