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Cottage cheese bowl

Name: Cottage cheese bowl
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 servings
Ingredients: 1 cup cottage cheese; 5 berries strawberries, sliced; 1/3 cup blueberries; 1 1/2 tsp honey; 5 halves walnuts, chopped

The bowl Google named one of 2025's top food searches: cottage cheese as the base instead of the garnish, topped sweet with berries and honey — or savory, tomatoes and everything crunchy.

Time: 5 min (5 prep + 0 cook)
Servings: 1
Per serving: 433 kcal
Protein: 29 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

1 cup cottage cheese225 g
5 berries strawberries, sliced80 g
1/3 cup blueberries50 g
1 1/2 tsp honey10 g
5 halves walnuts, chopped15 g

Every ingredient links to its food page — same data, same score, same formula.

Steps

Cottage cheese in the bowl, everything else on top. That's the recipe.
For the savory road: skip the fruit and honey, add halved cherry tomatoes, cucumber, olive oil, salt and plenty of pepper.
Eat immediately or lid it for later — this is the rare bowl that commutes well.

Why did this go viral?

Because it deserves to: a cup of cottage cheese carries around 25 g of protein for about 220 calories, which embarrasses most breakfast cereals. The internet rediscovered what the 1970s already knew, minus the canned peach.

Why this score

solidly filling

No single route carries this one — a moderate amount of protein, volume and fiber.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

27% of kcal

78% water

8 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 433 kcal goes into the pot, 380 g of ingredients comes out as ~380 g of food → 114 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 114
Protein: (27%); 8 g
Fat: (42%); 5 g
Carbohydrates: (31%); 9 g
of which sugar: 4 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 207 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.