Cream Cheese Nutrition Benefits Calories Warnings And Recipes

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      My Food Data: “Cream Cheese”
    
      NIH: “Vitamin A Fact Sheet for Health Professionals”
    
      Harvard Health Publishing: “Living with lactose intolerance”
    
      My Food Data: "Unsalted Butter"
    
      Annals of Internal Medicine: "Systematic Review: Effective Management Strategies for Lactose Intolerance"
    
      University of Virginia: "Lactose Content of Common Dairy Foods"
    
      FDA: "Code of Federal Regulations Title 21: Neufchâtel"
    
      FDA: "FDA: "Code of Federal Regulations Title 21: Cream Cheese"
    




Cream cheese is a good source of vitamin A but you'll want to choose the lower fat varieties for less saturated fat.

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Image Credit: LIVESTRONG.com Creative

Real French Neufchâtel is made with raw cow’s milk and has a rind like Brie. However, the type you spot next to the cream cheese in the dairy aisle is made with pasteurized dairy and is more like a low-fat cream cheese product. The FDA requires American Neufchâtel to have milkfat around 20 to 30 percent milkfat and a maximum moisture content of 65 percent.

Whipped and low-fat cream cheeses contain fewer calories and grams of fat, while flavored cream cheeses often contain more calories from sugar.

The same one-ounce serving of unsalted butter could be considered as less healthy than cream cheese. It has twice the calories, more than twice the saturated fat and less protein.

Do ‘Lactose-Free’ and ‘Dairy-Free’ Mean the Same Thing?

Cream cheese is more than just your go-to bagel spread — it has numerous culinary uses you'll want to try.

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Image Credit: 4kodiak/iStock/GettyImages

Cream Cheese and Turkey Bacon Stuffed Piquillo Peppers The Philly Cream Cheese Toast With Smoked Salmon Gluten-Free Breakfast Pizza With Cinnamon Honey Drizzle Mermaid Toast

      My Food Data: “Cream Cheese”
    
      NIH: “Vitamin A Fact Sheet for Health Professionals”
    
      Harvard Health Publishing: “Living with lactose intolerance”
    
      My Food Data: "Unsalted Butter"
    
      Annals of Internal Medicine: "Systematic Review: Effective Management Strategies for Lactose Intolerance"
    
      University of Virginia: "Lactose Content of Common Dairy Foods"
    
      FDA: "Code of Federal Regulations Title 21: Neufchâtel"
    
      FDA: "FDA: "Code of Federal Regulations Title 21: Cream Cheese"