Dry Curd Cottage Cheese

suze4

There are not several types of dry curd cottage cheese. This is simply curd with no additives. No milk, guar gum or anything else. Just curd. Yet the carb count in your database doesn't agree with my brands. Dry curd cottage cheese has 2 grams carbohydrate in 1/2 cup, and it's the same in all three brands I can get in my area. Dairyland, Beatrice, and Lucerne. Yet your database says that 1/2 cup has 3.9 grams. I am forced to enter less than I ate in order to get the carb grams right, since I am following a low carb diet.

Hilary

The nutrient values for NCCDB foods come from the Nutrient Coordinating Center. Here is a link to our sources and where you can learn more about them:
https://cronometer.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018239472
In general, the NCC conducts repeated analysis on a food throughout the year to get an average value for each nutrient, or finds these values in peer-reviewed sources.
Our licensing agreement prevents us from making changes to these foods, but if you would like to use values from your sources, you could create a custom food, or edit a copy of the NCCDB food.

suze4

I have actually typed in several foods that are not in the database, but then I realized they were inaccurate and I deleted them. I just use the closest approximation in the database, because the labels on foods that I entered were incomplete. They did not include all the nutrients or even the water. I'll just continue to choose the closest thing in the database.

Hilary

Products that haven't been analyzed by NCCDB and USDA, have nutrition labels that only include a very basic set of nutrients mandated by law. We are not a lab and do not test foods for their nutrient content, and can only provide the information that is available to us from the manufacturer.
It sounds like your method is best! Choose the closest approximation, especially if you want to get the most detailed data! Keep an eye on the datasource! You can also easily view how many nutrients a food contains in the add serving dialog.