Plus, what to look for when shopping for healthy cheese.

While the words healthy and cheese arent often found in the same sentence, they should be!

In fact, Swiss cheese is known to be one of the lowest sodium cheese varieties available.

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Farmers cheese has a very mild flavor that lends itself nicely to either sweet or savory dishes.

And who could forget that this stretchy cheese makes for the most irresistibleslice of pizza?

Plus, Parmesan is shockingly high in protein and calcium.

However, its important to stick to a one to 1.5-ounce portion size to avoid a hefty salt load.

Frompastaand pizza to soups and breads, theres no shortage of ways to use this beloved cheese.