Is Longley Farm Cottage Cheese High In Syns?

Cottage cheese is a great staple for the slimming world, its low-calorie nutritional value is great for snacking with, topping jacket potatoes with or as a sandwich filler.

Longley farm cottage cheese in particular has 5 syns per 100g in its natural flavour making it a great high protein low syn snack to have in moderation or as part of a meal.

To find out more about the syns in Longley Farm Cottage Cheese, whether or not cottage cheese is syn free as well as some low syn alternatives from other brands.

Can I Eat Longley Farm Cottage Cheese On The Slimming World Plan?

As long as you measure out and track the syns of your cottage cheese there is no reason as to why you can't enjoy it on the slimming world plan.

Cottage cheese is very healthy for weight loss, it's naturally low in calories, a great source of calcium and contains lots of healthy fats. You could have up to 300g of this natural cottage cheese before exceeding your daily syn allowance.

Although cottage cheese does have healthy fats, you should still watch your fat intake when eating cottage cheese since it can be high.

We've listed the syn values of the Longley farm cottage cheese range down below.

• Cottage cheese with pineapple - 5.5 syns.
• Cottage cheese with chives - 5.5 syns.
• Fat free natural cottage cheese - SYN FREE.
• Fat-free cottage cheese with chives - SYN FREE.

Is Cottage Cheese Syn Free?

You might be confused about whether or not cottage cheese is syn free, low fat cottage cheese is indeed syn free but full-fat cottage cheese is not syn free.

This means you can have as much as you want without having to track their syns.

Low Syn Alternatives To Longley Farm Cottage

If you find Longley Farm Cottage Cheese too high in syns there are plenty of other low syn alternatives to check out for a great snack.

We've listed a few alternatives below.

• Tesco Fat Free Cottage Cheese 300G - SYN FREE.
• Tesco Natural Cottage Cheese Fat 600G - 4 syns.
• Tesco Pineapple 0% Fat Cottage Cheese 300G - 3 syns.
• M&S Natural Cottage Cheese - 5 syns.
• M&S Cottage Cheese with Pineapple - 5 syns.
• Creamfields Cottage Cheese Low Fat 300G - SYN FREE.
• Graham's Natural Cottage Cheese Full Fat 300G - 5 syns for 100g.
• M&S Reduced Fat Natural Cottage Cheese - SYN FREE.
• M&S Cottage Cheese with Onion & Chives - 6 syns.
• Piatnica Cottage Cheese Naturalny 200G - 5 syns.
• Sainsbury's Cottage Cheese, Fat Free 300g - SYN FREE.
• Sainsbury's Cottage Cheese 300g - 8 syns.
• Sainsbury's Fat Free Onion & Chive Cottage Cheese 300g - 5.5 syns.

Can I Have Cottage Cheese As My Healthy Extra A?

No, unfortunately, cottage cheese cannot be used as your healthy extra A protein source, only the reduced-fat version is syn free, for any full fat cottage cheese you will need to syn them which on average is around 5 syns for 100g.

Last Words

Overall, Longley Farm Cottage Cheese has 5 syns per 100g for its natural version and 5.5 syns in for the flavoured version, making it very low in syns and a great snack to have for weight loss. If you want to keep your syns even lower we suggest using a reduced fat cottage cheese as this is syn free.