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On the whole, Feta is a pickled curd cheese that has a salty and tangy taste enhanced by the brine solution. The texture depends on the age which can be extremely creamy, or crumbly dry. Upon maturation of 2 months, feta is sold in blocks submerged in brine.imilar cheeses produced elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean and around the Black Sea, outside the EU, are often called âwhite cheeseâ. To create traditional feta, 30 percent goat's milk is mixed with sheep's milk of animals grazing on pastures in the specific appellation of origin regions.
Nutritional Value. Feta cheese is traditionally made using sheepâs milk. Feta has an intense flavor, and is popular in salads and cooked Mediterranean-style dishes. One wedge of feta cheese, which weighs about 1 ounce or 28 grams, makes up a single serving and contains 76 calories. Because feta cheese made from sheepâs milk has a higher fat content, the calorie count per serving may be slightly higher, depending on the specific producer and the method used to produce the cheese. Macronutrients. The total fat content of a wedge of feta cheese comes to 6.5 grams of fat, about 10 percent of the recommended daily value. However, saturated fat makes up 4 grams of this total, about 21 percent of the recommended daily intake of this type of fat.