Whey

Question: Can you give me some information about the food value of whey? I have been dripping nonfat yogurt to make a cheese as a substitute for butter on bread. The extracted whey makes a pleasant enough drink, but I want to know what may be lost to those in my family who don't drink it. Answer: "Nutritive Value of American Foods--In Common Units," U.S. Department of Agriculture Handbook No. 456, states one cup of fluid whey contains 64 calories, 2.2 grams protein, 0.7 grams fat, 12.

CHEESE IS AN interesting and complicated subject--as interesting and as complicated as wine, another natural substance with whose manufacture it has much in common. Though the world teems with Grapies who drop the names of Chateaux as others sprinkle their conversation with the names of peers or pop stars, cheese has not yet acquired its groupies. (Though cheese does have its social implications: American Foodies speak sneeringly of the "Brie and white wine set."

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