The supermarket cottage cheese taste test: ‘It is the most expensive – but the texture is solid and grainy, and the flavour bland’

If you are old enough to remember cottage cheese from the bad old days of diet culture, you may be flummoxed by its new cult status – it’s often sold out on the supermarket shelves. Read the label, though, and you’ll understand why: these days, it’s all about protein, and cottage cheese packs plenty of it.