Why cottage cheese is so good for you

Richard Nixon ate it with pineapple. Seventies slimmers plumped for a grapefruit accompaniment. Many were thankful when its lumpy, faintly sticky texture fell from favour, replaced in the main by yogurt. Now, however, it is back. On TikTok, social media influencers are pairing it with avocado on toast, baking it into “viral flatbreads” and adding it to cookies – or even fudge. Why, oh why, is cottage cheese making a comeback – and is it really the healthiest cheese out there?