Hello @Leopeli , milk and dairy products always contain sugar, as it is naturally present in milk in the form of milk sugar (lactose). Milk essentially contains: Water, lactose, proteins, minerals.
In processed milk products, the lactose is usually converted into lactic acid by lactic acid bacteria. The longer the lactic acid bacteria can work, the less sugar is contained and the more acidic (e.g. in yoghurt) a product becomes. As cheese is normally matured for longer than a dairy product, cheese naturally no longer contains lactose.

Lactose-free dairy products still contain sugar. This is because lactose is not normally removed from the product, but is broken down into individual sugars (glucose and galactose) with the help of natural enzymes (lactase). OurNature dairy products normally contain only natural sugar and no added sugar (unlike some products sold abroad and by other retailers). The consumer therefore has complete freedom to add sugar. I hope this helps to clear up your concerns about sugar in dairy products. Kind regards, Marina

Thank you for the answer.

As far as I know, if sugar is in the list of ingredients > as is the case with cottage cheese (even if it is not lactose-free), it is added... otherwise it would only appear in the nutritional information. Or would it?

This is the case with Alnatura rye bread, for example... Sugar is only listed here in the nutritional values:https://produkte.migros.ch/alnatura-roggenbrot > so it is not added sugar.

http://www.lebensmittelklarheit.de/forum/angaben-kohlenhydrate-10-g-davon-zucker-6-g

Quote: "It is not possible to tell from the nutritional table whether it is added sugar or naturally contained sugar. It is therefore worth taking a look at the list of ingredients. Added sugar must be listed there."

You are welcome to correct me if I am misinformed...

Hello Loepeli, thank you very much for your reply. Yes exactly, that is correct. The ingredients in the ingredients list must also be listed in descending order. This means that the further back the ingredient is, the less of it is contained in the product, and in the case of cottage cheese, as with many other products (tomato sauces, pickles, etc.), the added sugar serves to round off the taste. However, the amount of sugar it contains is hardly worth mentioning. Incidentally, no additional sugar is added to Bio cottage Cheese Nature. Kind regards, Madlen

Thanks for the honest answer. I actually wanted to get to this in my first post :-) .

As I've already written, I realize that it's about "rounding off the taste"... that's very nicely worded.

However, it is simply "hidden", "unexpected" sugar which, in my opinion, has no place in cottage cheese.
Why is it only omitted from organic Cottage Cheese Nature? Apparently the sugar is not that important, otherwise it would be added there too...

As well as the quantity... Of course it will be a "small" amount. But isn't the point that it is simply unnecessary and that many people don't know exactly how much sugar they are consuming with such "hidden" sugar?

As I said... I would be VERY happy if Migros were to take on a pioneering role here!

Addendum to my post above...

Organic Cottage Cheese nature has no sugar.....What is corn starch then?

Too bad... a real shame!

Corn starch is, as the name suggests, starch and not a monosaccharide or disaccharide (household sugar is a disaccharide). Corn starch is therefore classified as a carbohydrate (multiple sugars, long chain of many monosaccharides = starch).

That's true, but if the list of ingredients includes extra sugar, then it also contains sugar. Because if you break down the foods, they all have sugar.
So take the sugar out of cottage cheese or Blévitas, for example, it has no place there.