Cheese Facts
Cheese Facts
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Interesting Cheese Facts: |
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The word 'cheese' is derived from the Latin word 'caseus'. It is also derived from the word 'chese' from Middle English. |
Cheese predates any recorded history. No evidence exists to prove where it originated. It may have been the Middle East, Central Asia, or Europe. |
Archaeological records show that cheese making existed in Poland in 5,500 BC but it is believed that it began when sheep were first domesticated in 8000 BC. |
18.7 million tonnes of cheese from whole cow's milk was produced worldwide in 2014. |
The largest consumers of cheese in 2014 were France, Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Germany. On average each person consumed 55lbs of cheese that year. |
Cheese is the most stolen food around the world. It is estimated that 4% of all cheese is stolen. |
American President Andrew Jackson once had a 1400lb block of cheddar cheese delivered to the White House. It took 10,000 visitors only two hours to eat the 4 foot diameter, 2 foot thick block of cheese. |
The holes in Swiss cheese were once seen as a sign of imperfection. |
The biogas created by making Beaufort cheese in Albertville, France is used to create that city's electricity. |
Cheddar cheese is not orange by nature. In the 1600s cheese began to be dyed orange to make people think it was better quality. |
American cheese is not really cheese so it must be labeled 'cheese product' or 'American Singles'. This is the cheese that comes in slices individually wrapped in plastic. |
Cheese contains trace amounts of morphine which means technically it could be addictive. |
Half of the cheese consumed around the world is Gouda. |
There are approximately 1000 different cheeses in France. |
Cheese can be made from moose but it costs about $420lb. |
The most expensive cheese in the world is called Pule cheese. It is made from Balkan donkey milk from Serbia, and costs about $600lb. Only 100 female milking donkeys are available for milking. |
Some cheese is stretched to create its texture, such as mozzarella and provolone. |
Harder cheeses have more pressure applied when being pressed into shape. |
Cheese is usually categorized by moisture content, from soft, semi-soft, semi-hard to hard. |
Some of the most well-known cheeses include cheddar, mozzarella, blue cheese, Havarti, feta, Parmigiano Reggiano, Brie, goats cheese, cream cheese, camembert, provolone, gorgonzola, ricotta, cottage cheese, Swiss cheese, and Monterey Jack. |
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