Myzithra cheese

Myzithra cheese is a Greek whey-based cheese used fresh, aged, grated, or crumbled in savory and sweet dishes.

About Myzithra cheese

Myzithra is a Greek whey-based cheese made from cheesemaking whey, sometimes with added milk. It includes fresh, soft forms and firmer dried or aged forms, which serve different purposes in savoury and sweet cooking. The name therefore covers a family of related textures rather than one single cheese style.

Fresh myzithra is soft, moist, white, and mildly milky, with a delicate tang. It can be spread, spooned, crumbled, or used as a filling. Aged myzithra is harder, drier, and more intensely salty or savoury, with a texture suited to shaving or grating over pasta and other dishes.

It may be sold as a soft fresh cheese or as a firm dried and aged cheese. Moisture loss, salting, and maturation deepen flavour and improve grating quality. Fresh forms are shaped into fillings or spooned onto food, while aged forms are cut into pieces or grated as a finishing cheese.

Ingredient type: derived ingredient

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Myzithra cheese nutrition & diet

Myzithra cheese nutritional value

Product example: MYZITHRA, CHEESE (MYZITHRA)

Per 100 g of this specific product as recorded by USDA, per 100 g.

Calories: 286kcal
Protein: 14.3g
Carbs: 7.1g
Fat: 21.4g

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Portions & preparation

Match the reference to fresh, aged, grated, or crumbled Myzithra, since moisture, concentration, and serving use differ. Record the edible cheese portion separately from accompanying pasta, pastry, fruit, or syrup. Preparation may add oil, salt, sugar, or other ingredients that change the catalogue entry.

Compare the right form: Reference must match Myzithra’s fresh, aged, grated, or crumbled form and the edible cheese portion; preparation additions require separate accounting.

Diet considerations

Myzithra is a dairy-derived cheese from Greek culinary tradition. Compatibility changes with milk source, rennet or cultures, and any added ingredients. Fresh, aged, grated, and dessert preparations differ; pasta, pastry, meat, seafood, or sweet accompaniments can introduce cereal ingredients, animal additions, or portion-dependent carbohydrate patterns.

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Dietary compatibility

Vegan
Typically incompatible
Vegetarian
Depends on the version
Pescatarian
Depends on the version
Keto
Depends on the version
Paleo
Typically incompatible
Low-carb
Depends on the version
Halal
Not established
Kosher
Not established

What these diet assessments mean

Vegan · Typically incompatible: The ingredient profile identifies an animal-derived food or derivative.
Vegetarian · Depends on the version: Check the coagulant or rennet source: animal rennet and vegetarian alternatives are both relevant to this category.
Pescatarian · Depends on the version: Check the coagulant or rennet source: animal rennet and vegetarian alternatives are both relevant to this category.
Keto · Depends on the version: Compatibility depends on the portion and preparation. A sourced carbohydrate amount for a defined serving is not available.
Paleo · Typically incompatible: This profile falls outside the conventional paleo pattern used here (grains and pseudograins, legumes, dairy or refined sugar).
Low-carb · Depends on the version: Compatibility depends on the portion and preparation. A sourced carbohydrate amount for a defined serving is not available.
Halal · Not established: Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Not established: Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

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Sources & review

Nutrition reference: USDA FoodData Central branded product — MYZITHRA, CHEESE ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

Last recorded verification: 26 September 2026.