EDITOR’S NOTE: Have you seen health advice on social media and wondered, “Is that actually good for me?” CNN’s Wellness team explains and evaluates viral trends in this regular series: Fad Check.
For the Greatest Generation, cottage cheese was a staple of wartime rationing. Baby Boomers and Gen X may associate it with diet culture of the 1970s and ’80s. But many people born after all that are tucking it into recipes and making it popular again by posting about it on TikTok and Instagram, some swearing by its health benefits.
