You've seen the neat little drawings of the placenta -- your baby's life support system in utero -- but you'd... You've seen the neat little drawings of the placenta -- your baby's life support system in utero -- but you'd be right to realize that those diagrams don't look all that much like the real thing.ou've seen the neat little drawings of the placenta -- your baby's life support system in utero -- but you'd be right to realize that those diagrams don't look all that much like the real thing.
Besides being higher in calcium than cottage cheese, ricotta cheese is also lower in sodium, with 123 milligrams per 1/2 cup compared with 420 milligrams in a serving of cottage cheese. Use ricotta cheese as a substitute for cottage cheese in lasagna or spinach pie.
More ingredient substitutions. Healthy Cheese Substitutes. For 8 ounces cream cheese, substitute 8 ounces reduced-fat ricotta cheese or reduced-fat cream cheese (Neuftchatel). 1  Cup for cup, part-skim ricotta cheese has less fat, calories, sodium, cholesterol, and saturated fat than cream cheese, plus double the protein. 2  It also has 66 percent more calcium.