Is this Quark? Please let it be!

[weightykaty]

Hi everyone.
So as some of you may know that I'm doing some work experience/voluntary work out in Romania
where nothing fat free or low fat is available unless it's
been imported. Well I went to Carrefour (a french supermarket)
and I found DIET CHEESE!
it has 0.1% fat. Made of skimmed pasteurised cow milk.
I had a tiny spoonful. It didn't taste of anything, maybe a
little sour/tangy. but apart from that, nothing.
Texture is a bit like Ricotta. Kind of a cross between
cottage cheese, cream cheese and ricotta. Is this Quark?lol
I know that it is available in Europe. Especially in these
Balkan countries. But finding it is proving difficult.

This translates to: Albalact diet cheese
skimmed pasteurized cow's milk 0.1% fat
clot and selected lactic cultures

This is what it looks like:

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[anjuschka]

Well it sounds CLOSE - looks a bit more like cottage cheese to me but whatever it is I would assume it's the closes relation you're going to find! Quark is usually smooth with no lumps.

Well done, now have fun cooking with it or just scoffing it right from the tub.

 

[Jackk]

I feel your pain weightykaty! It's so hard when you're abroad to know what to buy! Even when I was in France with all their great food, sometimes you just wish you could nip to sainsbury's or tesco's to get something that you know for a fact is healthy! Particularly when things don't always have all the nutritional info on them which is on pretty much everything here.

Good luck with this quark/pseudo-quark anyway!

 

[Atropos]

If the fat is really that low - and if it doesn't have any added sugar or starch, then I think you should just go for it!