Scaled to a one ounce serving, this feta has 140 calories, 8.4g fat, 504mg sodium, etc. This is almost exactly double that of all of the other fetas that I’m comparing the nutrition facts to. Do we think this is accurate or that the label is wrong? I’m at a loss of what could possibly be so different about this one! Thanks in advance!
by GetRealWeirdWithIt
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Moisture level?
A lot of fetas (specifically crumbled) seem to have skim milk or “fat free feta cheese” as their main ingredient – this one doesn’t state what kind of milk it uses but I would assume it uses whole milk based on the fat content. Calories from fat on the nutrition label is 15, removed would be 10 calories per serving or 56 calories per 1 oz.
This is kind of strange, I must say. It would helpful if milkfat and moisture %s were on the label. Tablespoon is an odd serving unit for a block of feta, and 5g seems like a very low weight for a tablespoon of feta no matter how loosely you’re packing it—I’m looking at labels of crumbled feta sold where I live and where they measure in tbsp, they’re describing a tbsp as 10-15 g. So my first thought was it’s a typo, but then the macro breakdown doesn’t make sense.
My next thought, like the other commenter, was this is just a particularly dry feta so less of the weight is water/brine. Standard feta here is 55% moisture so of a 30g serving it’s like 21% (6g) fat, 21% (6g) protein, 3% (1g) carbs, totalling 13g and then the remaining 17g is moisture. It’s hard to extrapolate from a serving size as small as 5g because of rounding in nutrition labels, but to get those macros you’d need a moisture level much lower than I’ve ever heard of in feta.
This is the kind of thing where I would contact the manufacturer just to ask for clarification, if you eat it enough where that matters to you.