Cottage conundrum: let down by the low-carb craze, cottage cheese makers focus on technology and innovation as they attempt to revive the category.

From: Dairy Field | Date: November 1, 2005| Author: Ramirez, Julie Cook | Copyright information

Cottage cheese is in a slump. OK, so that's not exactly breaking news. Truth be told, it doesn't take an industry analyst or a sideshow soothsayer to notice that cottage cheese isn't exactly jumping off the shelves these days. Granted, that's not a recent trend, as cottage cheese sales have been on a downward slide for the past two decades.

What happened, you ask? In a word, time. Time during which many loyal cottage cheese consumers quite literally grew old and passed a...

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