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Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nRead more<\/span><\/svg><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA Scottish dairy company is significantly ramping up its cottage cheese production, responding to “all-time record demand” for the once-retro foodstuff largely fuelled by a surprising TikTok trend.<\/p>\n
Graham\u2019s Family Dairy has completed a \u00a33.5 million extension at its Glenfield site in Fife. <\/p>\n
This investment will increase cottage cheese production by 50 per cent and create 25 local jobs.<\/p>\n
The resurgence, shedding its 1970s and 80s image, is driven by a wave of food influencers posting recipes on social media. <\/p>\n
On TikTok, “cottage cheese breakfast rounds” garnered 15.1 million views, and “cottage cheese edible cookie dough” 8.7 million.<\/p>\n
Supermarket Tesco reports demand for cottage cheese has tripled in the last two years. This trend has seen demand at Graham\u2019s double in recent years, equivalent to an extra two million kilograms sold.<\/p>\n
The Grocer also reported last month that monthly volumes of cottage cheese in the UK leapt from about 900,000kg at the start of 2023 to more than 1.7 million kilograms in the final month of 2025.<\/p>\n
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open image in gallery<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>The resurgence of cottage cheese has been driven by a wave of food influencers posting recipes on social media (Graham’s Family Dairy \/PA Wire)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nGraham\u2019s managing director Robert Graham said they first noticed the trend in around May 2023, and that since then the business has \u201cliterally gone into overdrive to keep up with the demand\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe demand has simply been staggering and our cottage cheese business is now bigger than our milk business \u2013 which is what our dairy farm was originally built around,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe trend has caught on around the world and as a result we\u2019re now exporting to places as far away as the Gulf States and Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n
The investment will support increased output across the company\u2019s full cottage cheese range, including its natural, low fat and high protein lines.<\/p>\n
Mr Graham went on: \u201cThis investment means we can keep up with that demand without changing what makes our product special.<\/p>\n
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open image in gallery<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>Graham\u2019s managing director Robert Graham said demand has been \u2018staggering\u2019 (Graham’s Family Dairy \/PA Wire)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\u201cWe still make our cottage cheese using a traditional open-vat process, which gives it a firmer curd and a more natural texture than some other products on the shelf.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has also allowed us to create more jobs locally and start thinking about what comes next for the range, which is really exciting for us as a family business.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last month Elizabeth Tomkins, Tesco cottage cheese buyer, said the store was ordering as much cottage cheese as it could get its hands on.<\/p>\n
\u201cTikTok food trends often result in sudden sales spikes and we saw that happen last year with Italian bread and cheese but this is a fully fledged culinary phenomenon that has brought a lot of extra business to the UK dairy industry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cCottage cheese became massively popular in the 70s and 80s as a tasty but low-fat filling for baked potatoes or avocados.<\/p>\n
\u201cDemand has been steady since then with sales traditionally rising in the summer months and in January because of the popularity of post-Christmas diets.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut now, because it\u2019s become so popular with a younger audience, we are ordering in as much as we can because we\u2019re seeing all-time record demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it. Your support makes all the difference. Read more A Scottish dairy company is significantly ramping up its cottage cheese production, responding to “all-time record demand” for the once-retro foodstuff largely fuelled by a surprising TikTok trend. Graham\u2019s Family Dairy has completed a \u00a33.5 million extension at its Glenfield site in Fife. This investment will increase cottage cheese production by 50 per cent and create 25 local jobs. The resurgence, shedding its 1970s and 80s image, is driven by a wave of food influencers posting recipes on social media. On TikTok, “cottage cheese breakfast rounds” garnered 15.1 million views, and “cottage cheese edible cookie dough” 8.7 million. Supermarket Tesco reports demand for cottage cheese has tripled in the last two years. This trend has seen demand at Graham\u2019s double in recent years, equivalent to an extra two million kilograms sold. The Grocer also reported last month that monthly volumes of cottage cheese in the UK leapt from about 900,000kg at the start of 2023 to more than 1.7 million…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}