Wisconsin is well-known for its cheese, but people from Michigan will point to the small town of Pinconning as its state cheese capital. The Colby-style cheese was first made by Dan Horn in the early 1900s, and Horn’s daughter began selling Pinconning cheese in Michigan’s first cheese store.
While you might not want to eat 4 ounces of cheese in one sitting (or you might!), a single ounce of Pinconning cheese still provides plenty of nutrients. Keto dieters will love that 74% of Pinconning’s 110 calories come from fat. Pinconning cheese is a good source of calcium, providing 15% of your daily recommended value. You’ll also get 10% of vitamin B12, which is often deficient in a vegetarian diet. Cheese also has minerals such as phosphorus, zinc, and selenium. Remember that cheese is an essential protein, meaning it has high enough levels of all nine of the essential amino acids you need from food. Cheese also is high in cystine and tyrosine, which are two conditionally essential amino acids.