Diet Food Reviews

Diet Food Reviews

Philadelphia Garden Vegetable Light Cream Cheese

By: Tanya Patrice | Nov 30, 2005

Philadelphia Light Cream CheeseWhat's a bagel without cream cheese? It's just a bagel. Okay, so it's still good, but you can't get delicious cheese cake without cream chesse. The only problem - 2 tablespoons (or about an ounce) of the regular stuff is 100 calories and 10 grams of fat - that's almost one third of the daily recommendations for fat in your diet. Thank God there is now a lower calories/fat alternative - two alternatives in fact - light and fat free. I chose to review Philadelphia Garden Vegetable Light Cream Cheese because the fat free version costs more.

I taste tested the 'Garden Vegetable' on a bagel. The Garden Vegetable variety provided a nice change from plain cream cheese, and the light variety was just as tasty as the original version. I have no complaints about the taste and really couldn't tell the difference between this and the full fat flavor. I also tasted the cream cheese on its own sans bagel and it was still delish!

The 'light' cream cheese has 50% less fat than the original, at 4.5 grams for a serving of 2 tablespoons, in addition to providing 60 calories, 2.5 grams of saturated fat (13% of daily recommendations), 15 mg cholesterol and 190 mg sodium (8% of the RDA).

From the Kraft website, if you want to substitute Philadelphia Light Cream Cheese block for regular block cream cheese in a chilled cheesecake, add an extra teaspoon of gelatine dissolved in a tablespoon of water to the recipe. For a baked cheesecake add extra table spoon flour, cornflour or custard powder to the recipe.

Rating
Taste: 4.5
Nutrition: 3.5
Price: 4
Overall: 3.5
See more on: Dairy , cream cheese, spread | No Comments

 

 

Leave a comment

 


Recent Reviews

 

What We're Cooking

Recent Comments

amanda commented on Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte: This is one of my favorite holiday drink ... more »
Melissa commented on Chex Cinnamon Cereal: Cinnamon Chex is probably one of my favo ... more »
Amy H. commented on Landgarten Organic Snack Mix: Thought you might want to know that Land ... more »
Sarah commented on Hello World. Welcome to the New and Improved Iateapie.net: positively LOVING the coupon section ... more »
Jillian (back to the nest) commented on Hello World. Welcome to the New and Improved Iateapie.net: The new stuff is fabulous! ... more »
Joanne commented on Recipe for Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Apples: I am on such a roasted apple kick lately ... more »
Tanya commented on Weekly Healthy Meals & Menu Plan. Gear up for the Holidays: Let's not even talk fantasy football! I ... more »
Jillian (back to the nest) commented on Low Calorie Lunch: Bell Pepper Tuna Boat: I tried this! It was so delicious. I s ... more »
Tanya commented on Step Right Up Folks and Get Your Free Sample of Lipton Tea: Looks like this offer is over - that was ... more »
Laura commented on Step Right Up Folks and Get Your Free Sample of Lipton Tea: I'm all over the green tea - but where i ... more »
Tanya commented on YoCrunch Candy Swap: Should have added *1 candy wrapper per p ... more »

 

FAVORITE LINKS