Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Sorry Bette! I could find information about it and recipes but no nutritional information. Could you call a Spaghetti Factory and ask them? Or maybe a specialty store where you buy it? Maureen food points question Are there any sleuths out there who know how to find the points value of an obscure food item? I did a Google search but came up with nothing. I was given a beautiful chunk of mizithra cheese -- a hard, aged Greek cheese that's a bit like feta. They use this stuff on one of the outlandish dishes at the Spaghetti Factory restaurants. Anyway, I want to grate some up and use it sparingly, but I can't find the nutritional data anywhere. Can anyone help? Thanks Bette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Sorry Bette! I could find information about it and recipes but no nutritional information. Could you call a Spaghetti Factory and ask them? Or maybe a specialty store where you buy it? Maureen food points question Are there any sleuths out there who know how to find the points value of an obscure food item? I did a Google search but came up with nothing. I was given a beautiful chunk of mizithra cheese -- a hard, aged Greek cheese that's a bit like feta. They use this stuff on one of the outlandish dishes at the Spaghetti Factory restaurants. Anyway, I want to grate some up and use it sparingly, but I can't find the nutritional data anywhere. Can anyone help? Thanks Bette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Sorry Bette! I could find information about it and recipes but no nutritional information. Could you call a Spaghetti Factory and ask them? Or maybe a specialty store where you buy it? Maureen food points question Are there any sleuths out there who know how to find the points value of an obscure food item? I did a Google search but came up with nothing. I was given a beautiful chunk of mizithra cheese -- a hard, aged Greek cheese that's a bit like feta. They use this stuff on one of the outlandish dishes at the Spaghetti Factory restaurants. Anyway, I want to grate some up and use it sparingly, but I can't find the nutritional data anywhere. Can anyone help? Thanks Bette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Maureen, Thanks for trying! I actually did contact the only specialty deli in the area that I know carries mizithra. Get this -- the label was cut off of the block of cheese! LOL. And then I checked Spaghetti Factory on Google and (shock of shocks) found that their spaghetti with browned butter and mizithra dinner was listed at a whopping 1000+ calories, but the ingredients were not itemized. Man, I used to love that dinner. Nevermore!! Anyway, I can't think of where else to check for this information. It's really good cheese, by the way -- and would be delicious on a salad or " garlic bread " (WW style) or even a preportioned meal with spaghetti and ICBINB! Bette - getting hungry as we speak! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Maureen, Thanks for trying! I actually did contact the only specialty deli in the area that I know carries mizithra. Get this -- the label was cut off of the block of cheese! LOL. And then I checked Spaghetti Factory on Google and (shock of shocks) found that their spaghetti with browned butter and mizithra dinner was listed at a whopping 1000+ calories, but the ingredients were not itemized. Man, I used to love that dinner. Nevermore!! Anyway, I can't think of where else to check for this information. It's really good cheese, by the way -- and would be delicious on a salad or " garlic bread " (WW style) or even a preportioned meal with spaghetti and ICBINB! Bette - getting hungry as we speak! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Maureen, Thanks for trying! I actually did contact the only specialty deli in the area that I know carries mizithra. Get this -- the label was cut off of the block of cheese! LOL. And then I checked Spaghetti Factory on Google and (shock of shocks) found that their spaghetti with browned butter and mizithra dinner was listed at a whopping 1000+ calories, but the ingredients were not itemized. Man, I used to love that dinner. Nevermore!! Anyway, I can't think of where else to check for this information. It's really good cheese, by the way -- and would be delicious on a salad or " garlic bread " (WW style) or even a preportioned meal with spaghetti and ICBINB! Bette - getting hungry as we speak! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 The only thing I can find is that Mizithra is " lower in fat " than other cheeses. Boy, how much help is that? I suppose because it isn't made in the United States, they don't have to put the nutritional information on it. I love that cheese. We don't have a Spaghetti Factory here, but we did where we used to live. I was surprised to see a spaghetti with Mizithra meal at The Spaghetti Factory to be 804 calories, according to The Spaghetti Factory web site. I'm glad, I suppose, they aren't here. I used to order that all the time!!! food points question Are there any sleuths out there who know how to find the points value of an obscure food item? I did a Google search but came up with nothing. I was given a beautiful chunk of mizithra cheese -- a hard, aged Greek cheese that's a bit like feta. They use this stuff on one of the outlandish dishes at the Spaghetti Factory restaurants. Anyway, I want to grate some up and use it sparingly, but I can't find the nutritional data anywhere. Can anyone help? Thanks Bette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 The only thing I can find is that Mizithra is " lower in fat " than other cheeses. Boy, how much help is that? I suppose because it isn't made in the United States, they don't have to put the nutritional information on it. I love that cheese. We don't have a Spaghetti Factory here, but we did where we used to live. I was surprised to see a spaghetti with Mizithra meal at The Spaghetti Factory to be 804 calories, according to The Spaghetti Factory web site. I'm glad, I suppose, they aren't here. I used to order that all the time!!! food points question Are there any sleuths out there who know how to find the points value of an obscure food item? I did a Google search but came up with nothing. I was given a beautiful chunk of mizithra cheese -- a hard, aged Greek cheese that's a bit like feta. They use this stuff on one of the outlandish dishes at the Spaghetti Factory restaurants. Anyway, I want to grate some up and use it sparingly, but I can't find the nutritional data anywhere. Can anyone help? Thanks Bette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 The only thing I can find is that Mizithra is " lower in fat " than other cheeses. Boy, how much help is that? I suppose because it isn't made in the United States, they don't have to put the nutritional information on it. I love that cheese. We don't have a Spaghetti Factory here, but we did where we used to live. I was surprised to see a spaghetti with Mizithra meal at The Spaghetti Factory to be 804 calories, according to The Spaghetti Factory web site. I'm glad, I suppose, they aren't here. I used to order that all the time!!! food points question Are there any sleuths out there who know how to find the points value of an obscure food item? I did a Google search but came up with nothing. I was given a beautiful chunk of mizithra cheese -- a hard, aged Greek cheese that's a bit like feta. They use this stuff on one of the outlandish dishes at the Spaghetti Factory restaurants. Anyway, I want to grate some up and use it sparingly, but I can't find the nutritional data anywhere. Can anyone help? Thanks Bette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 I used to order that all the time!!! Me too, ! It was wonderful! Bette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Yvonne, Thanks so much for the link! Bette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 27, 2004 Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 Okay I found this website on goat management: http://ag.udel.edu/extension/information/goatmgt/gm8-98.htm It says that Mizithra Cheese is 16% fat. So let's say you had 100 grams of cheese. If 16% of the grams came from fat that would mean 16 grams of fat. 1 gram of fat = 9 calories 16 x 9 = 144 fat calories in 100 grams of fat The other 84 grams are protein and carbohydrates. They're worth 4 calories per gram. So 84 x 4 = 336 So 100 grams of mizithra cheese would be 478 calories with 16% of those calories coming from fat. 13.1% comes from protein. No fiber. 1 ounce = 28.3495231 grams or about 29 grams per ounce So 100 grams is about 3.44 ounces So one ounce of mizithra cheese would be: 139 calories 19 calories from fat 18.2 calories from protein Now I THINK I did the calories right! > food points question > > > Are there any sleuths out there who know how to find the > points value of an obscure food item? I did a Google search > but came up with nothing. > > I was given a beautiful chunk of mizithra cheese -- a hard, > aged Greek cheese that's a bit like feta. They use this > stuff on one of the outlandish dishes at the Spaghetti > Factory restaurants. Anyway, I want to grate some up and use > it sparingly, but I can't find the nutritional data anywhere. > > Can anyone help? > > Thanks Bette > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 27, 2004 Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 Nope, it isn't 19 grams of fat. One gram of fat is 9 calories, so it's actually quite low in fat. So for one ounce it would be 19/9=2.1 grams for 1.5 ounces it would be 3.2 grams. It's actually a pretty low fat cheese, as cheeses go. I hadn't thought about eating it for a LONG time because I'd seen the calories on the Spaghetti Factory site...but you know I might just get a small bit! > RE: food points question > > > TORY > you can be my teacher ANY day! LOL! Only you would have > thought to go to a website on " goat management " ! Thank you > so much for the calculations. Since I found nothing at all, > after quite a bit of research, I'm going to use your > calculations as my " official " information. Tell me > though....if this is true: > > one ounce of mizithra cheese would be: > > 139 calories > 19 calories from fat > > then, do I enter 19 as " fat grams " on the points value > counter? That sounds high...doesn't it? It would be 4.5 > points per ounce. > > One thing that's nice-- in case you like mizithra too > (grin)-- is that it shreds up nice and fine, so an ounce goes > a long way and you can get a lot of flavor out of VERY little > cheese. Yesterday I shred up .15 oz (15/100) onto two > sandwiches and it added a great flavor. With NO information > whatsoever, I counted that as 1 point, guessing that it was a > high-fat cheese and wanting to overestimate rather than under. > > THANK YOU for your help! > Bette > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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