: For weird cheese lovers... or Mongols

Yak cheese is the healthy option

FOND of cheese but depressed about its high levels of saturated fats? Now there's a healthier alternative: yak cheese.

Mamun Or-Rashid at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues compared the fatty-acid content of cheese made from a Nepalese yak's milk and a standard Canadian cheddar.

They found the yak cheese had a lower overall fat content and, compared with cow's milk cheese, contained much higher levels of heart-healthy "good fats" such as conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and omega-3 fatty acids (Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, DOI: 10.1021/jf0725225).


http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19726484.800-yak-cheese-is-the-healthy-option.html?feedId=online-news_rss20