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Bryndza | ![]() | A sheep milk cheese made in Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine. [71] Recipes differ slightly across the countries. | |
Liptauer | ![]() | A spicy cheese spread made with sheep milk cheese, [57] goat's milk cheese, quark cheese or cottage cheese. | |
Ovčia hrudka [91] | |||
Kravská hrudka | |||
Korbáčiky | ![]() | Orava | A type of string cheese made from steamed cheese interwoven into fine braids. Common flavors include salty, smoked and garlic. |
Oštiepok | A traditional Slovakian smoked sheep milk cheese, it is a protected trade name under the EU's protected geographical indication. | ||
Parenica | ![]() | A traditional Slovakian cheese, it is a semi-firm, non-ripening, semi-fat, steamed and usually smoked cheese, although the non-smoked version is also produced. Parenica is cream and yellow in color, which is darkened by steaming. The cheese is produced in strips, which are woven into snail-like spirals. | |
Urda | |||
Tvaroh | |||
Encián | | ||
Plesnivec | |
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Mohant [92] [93] | | A soft cheese with a strong flavor. [92] | |
Tolminc cheese [94] | Tolmin | Made with raw cow milk, it has a sweet and spicy flavor. The cheese is registered as a Protected Designation of Origin. [94] |
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Ädelost | ![]() | A blue cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk. It has a light cream color with evenly distributed blue-gray veins and a sharp, salty flavor. The cheese has a slightly moldy rind. | |
Blå Gotland | Stånga | "Gotland Blue" is made in Sweden by the Arla Foods company in the town of Stånga on the island of Gotland. This cheese is often characterized as being somewhere between strong and mild, containing elements of both types. The color is a pale yellow, and it has no holes. | |
Grevé | ![]() | A semi-hard Swedish cheese made from cow's milk. It is similar to Emmental with a mild and nutty taste. The cream-coloured cheese has a smooth and creamy texture with large holes. It contains 30–40% fat and takes 10 months to attain full ripeness. | |
Gräddost | |||
Herrgårdsost | ![]() | A semi-hard cheese made from cow's milk. The aged cheese has a mild, sweet, nutty flavor and small round holes. It is aged for three or four months, but often up to 12 or even 24 months. | |
Hushållsost | A semi-hard cows'-milk cheese with small granular holes and aged around 60 days on average. The taste is described as mild yet somewhat sour. | ||
Moose cheese | | Bjurholm, Sweden | A cheese produced in Sweden from moose milk |
Prästost | ![]() | Made from pasteurized cow's milk. | |
Svecia | A semi-hard cow's-milk cheese, with a creamy consistency, light yellow colour, small irregular holes, and a mildly acidic taste. The cheese is aged in a dry environment for at least two months, sometimes up to more than a year. | ||
Västerbottensost | ![]() | Burträsk | A hard cow's milk cheese with tiny eyes or holes and a firm and granular texture. Strong in flavour, its taste is described as somewhat like Parmesan cheese, salty, but with more bitter notes. Västerbotten cheese must be aged for at least 12 months. |
Switzerland is home to over 450 varieties of cheese. [95] Cows milk is used in about 99 percent of the cheeses produced. The remaining share is made up of sheep milk and goat milk.
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Bilozhar | Rennet cheese 45% of fat in dry matter | ||
Bukovynskyi | Bukovina | A hard cheese (45% of fat in dry matter) made from cow's milk, it has moderate piquant cheese flavour and fruit and citrus aroma. Ageing period: 20 days. | |
Bryndza | ![]() | Budjak, Bukovina, Ciscarpathia, Podolia, Transcarpathia | A sheep milk cheese made in Moldova, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine. [71] Recipes differ slightly across the countries. Pictured is Ukrainian Carpathian bryndza. |
Dobrodar | | Hard cheese 50% of fat in dry matter. Ageing period: 45 days. | |
Smetankovyi | A hard rennet cheese (50% of fat in dry matter) made from pasteurised milk with moderate sweetish cheese flavour with no piquancy, delicate creamy overtones, and small holes. Ageing period: 30 days. | ||
Syr | ![]() | A firm quark version, somewhat similar to cottage cheese. It is often called syr, although the name could refer to any cheese in general; to differentiate it from other cheeses, names kyslomolochnyi syr and domashnii syr are common. | |
Ukrainskyi | Hard cheese 50% of fat in dry matter. | ||
Vurda | ![]() | Hutsulshchyna | Sort of whey cheese |
The British Cheese Board [96] states that there are over 700 named British cheeses produced in the UK.
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Banbury cheese | ![]() | Banbury, Oxfordshire, England | Once one of Banbury's most prestigious exports, and nationally famous, its production went into decline by the 18th-century, and eventually ceased. The cheese is best known today through an insult in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor (1597). [97] Pictured is a 15th/16th-century recipe for Banbury cheese. |
Cheddar cheese | ![]() | Cheddar, Somerset | The UK's most famous cheese, and one of the most popular. |
Stilton Cheese | ![]() | Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire | Stilton is produced in two varieties: Blue, which has had Penicillium roqueforti added to generate a characteristic smell and taste, and White, which has not. |
Stinking Bishop Cheese | ![]() | Dymock, Gloucestershire | Perhaps the UK's most notorious cheese, known for its distinctive odour. |
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Areesh | A type of white, soft, lactic, crumbly cheese made from laban rayeb . [98] | ||
Baramily | A type of white cheese aged in barrels, the name translates to barrel cheese in English. | ||
Domiati | ![]() | A soft white cheese usually made from cow or buffalo milk. It is salted, heated, coagulated using rennet and then ladled into wooden molds where the whey is drained away for three days. The cheese may be eaten fresh, or stored in salted whey for up to eight months, then matured in brine. [99] Domiati cheese accounts for about three-quarters of the cheese made and consumed in Egypt. [100] The cheese takes its name from the city of Damietta and is thought to have been made as early as 332 BC. [101] | |
Halumi | Similar to Cypriot halloumi, yet a different cheese. It may be eaten fresh or brined and spiced. The name comes from the Coptic word for cheese, "halum". | ||
Istanboly | A type of white cheese made from cow or buffalo milk, similar to feta cheese. | ||
Mish | ![]() | A sharp and salty product made by fermenting cheese for several months in salted whey. It is an important part of the diet of farmers. [102] Mish is often made at home from areesh cheese. [103] Products similar to mish are made commercially from different types of Egyptian cheese such as domiati or rumi, with different ages. | |
Rumi | ![]() | A hard, bacterially ripened variety of cheese. [104] It belongs to the same family as Pecorino Romano and Manchego . [105] It is salty, with a crumbly texture, and is sold at different stages of aging. [102] Although the texture and taste of Rumi cheese differ according to the aging period, it is usually sharp, strong, and pungent. |
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Lighvan cheese | Liqvan | a brined curd cheese traditionally made in Iran. Having a sour flavor, and a shape covered by holes, the cheese is produced from sheep's milk. The name comes from Liqvan, a village in Tabriz, where it has traditionally been made. [106] | |
Talesh cheese | Talesh | it can only be found in Talesh County. this cheese is made from goat or sheep milk. Once the cheese is processed, it is held in sheep or goat skin for aging and preservation. | |
Mahali cheese | Mazandaran | This cheese is very similar to Indian Paneer. It is made from full fat cow's milk. It tastes mild and is kept in salt brine. | |
Pot Cheese (kuzeh) کوزه | ![]() | Urumia | Kuzeh Paniri or Kupe paniri or Pot Cheese is a form of salty cheese made of Cow's milk and stored in a pot or jug under the ground for fermentation. It is common in Northwest of Iran specially in cities of Khoy and Urumia. It is made by adding white vinegar to cooled down boiled milk and then gathering the curd and stuffing it in a pot or jug and then the pot is buried under the ground where water is sometimes added to the soil. Sesame seeds or fennel flower seeds and poppy seeds and black caraway is then added to taste better and also lots of salt, after at least 2 months being in the pot it is taken out and then sun dried. |
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Tzfatit Kashah | ![]() | Upper Galilee | Hard texture, savory flavor; perfect for grating on top of Shakshouka, Manakish, Burekas or on a baked dumpling called calsonas. |
Tzfatit Triah | ![]() | Upper Galilee | Mild flavor; texture ranges from creamy to firm, is preserved in salty water and mainly used on salads or as a filling for sandwiches. |
Labneh | ![]() | Similar to Greek yogurt, labneh is a strained yogurt product that is common in the Middle East and the Levant. Pictured is Labneh in olive oil | |
Kashkawal | | A type of yellow cheese made of sheep milk. In Israel it is often mixed with white brined cheese in a salty pastry and to make a toast. | |
Qishta | ![]() | is a heavy cream that is very popular in the Middle East. Traditionally, it is made by skimming the thickest part of the cream from whey. The product is used both as an ingredient in cooking and is mixed with honey to be eaten as an incredibly rich dessert. Rich Cow brand Kashta is a fresh, rich-tasting, cream product texture of which is smooth and thick. It has a sixty-day refrigerated shelf life. | |
Halloumi | ![]() | Halloumi or haloumi[note 1] is a cheese of Cypriot origin made from a mixture of goat's and sheep's milk, and sometimes also cow's milk.[1][2][3] Its texture is described as squeaky. within the EU only products made in certain parts of Cyprus can be called "halloumi". | |
Hemed | The color is white and it has a smooth texture and a mild salty taste. It is commonly used as a table cheese eaten by itself or paired with fruit, used in pastries as well. | ||
Kedem | Bitzaron | A creamy type of cheese, almost like Sour Cream. made of Water Buffalo's milk and used either in pastries or as a spread eaten with bread and olive oil. | |
Knaaan | Upper Galilee | A cheese that is not too sour, therefore it can be either salted or sweetened, used in pastries and desserts. | |
Hermon | Upper Galilee and Golan | A cheese that has a similar texture to that of the Knaan cheese, yet is saltier. | |
Khalla | A mild, and not salty type of a cheese, its name is derived from its appearance which looks like braided bread (challa). | ||
Arrabah | Neot Smadar | A cheese that has originated in the southernmost part of Israel. It has a relatively mild flavour and not too salty, can be used in pastries and salads. | |
Kafrit | Also known as rural cheese, one of the most basic Cheeses in Israel, it has a texture relatively similar to that of a Feta cheese but generally less salty. |
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Akkawi | ![]() | Acre | A white brine cheese. It is named after the city of Acre, where it first originated, and is commonly made using cow milk, but can also be made with goat or sheep's milk. It is widely used in Knafeh but Nabulsi cheese is used more often. |
Areesh | Originated in Egypt | It is similar to cottage cheese. Shanklish, a fermented cheese, is made from areesh cheese. [107] | |
Baladi cheese | ![]() | Soft-white, smooth, creamy cheese has a mild flavor. It is eaten for breakfast or snacks. Pictured is spinach topped with Baladi. | |
Basket cheese | ![]() | originated in Turkey | Made from cow's milk, it is available fresh or dry. Fresh basket has no salt taste, while dry basket is mildly salty. Basket cheese gets its name from the way it is formed (inside a basket). |
Charkassiye | A soft cheese | ||
Jameed | | Jordan | Hard, dry laban made from goat or ewe's milk. [108] Milk is kept in a fine woven cheesecloth to make a thick yogurt. Salt is added daily to thicken the yogurt even more and the outside of the yogurt filled cheesecloth is rinsed with water to allow any remaining whey to seep through. After a few days of salting the yogurt, it becomes very dense and it can be removed from the cheesecloth and shaped into round balls. Pictured is white Jameed in a shop front in Jerusalem. |
Jibneh Arabieh | Arabian Peninsula | A traditional cheese in Middle East countries. It is particularly popular in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf. The cheese has an open texture and a mild taste similar to Feta but less salty. | |
Jibne Baida | Arabic for white cheese, is a white hard cheese with a pronounced salty taste, often boiled before eating | ||
Kashkawan | | A type of yellow cheese made of sheep milk. In Albania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia and Romania, the term is often used to refer to all yellow cheeses (or even any cheese other than sirene). | |
Qishta | is a heavy cream that is very popular in the Middle East. Traditionally, it is made by skimming the thickest part of the cream from whey. The product is used both as an ingredient in cooking and is mixed with honey to be eaten as an incredibly rich dessert. Rich Cow brand Kashta is a fresh, rich-tasting, cream product texture of which is smooth and thick. It has a sixty-day refrigerated shelf life. | ||
Labneh | ![]() | Similar to Greek yogurt, labneh is a strained yogurt product that is common in the Middle East and the Levant. Pictured is Labneh in olive oil | |
Majdoule | A salty white cheese made up of thick strands of cheese braided together (hence the name) | ||
Nabulsi cheese | ![]() | Nablus | One of a number of Palestinian white brined cheeses made in the Middle East. Its name denotes its place of origin, Nablus [109] and it is well known throughout the West Bank and surrounding regions. It is also a major ingredient of the Arabian desserts Knafeh and Qatayef. |
Shelal | A salty white cheese made up of strands of cheese woven together | ||
Surke or Shanklish | a mature cheese made with spices and generally presented as balls of cheese covered in za'tar orchile powder; most often eaten as a starter dish with tomato, oil and sometimes onion | ||
Syrian cheese | Syria | There are different kinds of Syrian cheese. A few of the most common include Baladi and Charkassiye. |
The Levant is a geographical region east of the Mediterranean Sea which includes the countries of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine and sometimes it includes Cyprus and the Turkish province of Hatay
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Abaza | ||||
Antep peyniri | Gaziantep [110] | |||
Armola peyniri | Seferihisar | |||
Arnavut | ||||
Beyaz peynir | ![]() | A salty, white cheese made from unpasteurized sheep milk. The cheese has a slightly grainy appearance and is similar to Greek feta cheese. | ||
Çamur | İzmir [111] | |||
Çeçil (tr) | Erzurum | Also known as Civil Peyniri | ||
Çökelek | ||||
Çömlek Peyniri | Kayseri, Yozgat, Sivas | Also known as Küp peyniri | ||
Dil Peyniri | ||||
Edirne | ||||
Ezine peyniri | Çanakkale | |||
Füme çerkes peyniri | ||||
Hellim | ![]() | Kuzey Kıbrıs | ||
Kars Gravyeri | Kars | |||
Kaşar | ||||
Keçi Peyniri | A goat's milk cheese [112] | |||
Kirli Hanım | Ayvalık | |||
Kopanisti peyniri | İzmir | |||
Küflü Peynir | Konya, Ardahan | |||
Lor (tr) | ||||
Malakan Peyniri | Kars | |||
Mihaliç Peyniri | Balıkesir | Also known as Kelle Peyniri or Manyas Peyniri | ||
Obruk | Karaman | |||
Örgü | Diyarbakır | |||
Salamura | Bingöl, Tokat | |||
Sayas | İzmir | |||
Süzme Yoğurt | ![]() | |||
Telli peynir | Karadeniz | |||
Tulum | Erzincan, İzmir, Tunceli, Aydın | |||
Van otlu peyniri | Van |
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Bleu Bénédictin | ![]() | Made by the monks at the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Quebec [113] | A semi-soft, whole milk blue cheese deeply veined with the Roquefort penicillium mold |
Cheddar cheese | Most Canadian Cheddar is produced by a number of large companies in Ontario, though other provinces produce some and some smaller artisanal producers exist. The annual production is 120,000 tons. It is aged a minimum of three months, but much of it is held for much longer, up to 10 years. | ||
Cheese curds | ![]() | Cheese curds are a key ingredient in poutine. | |
Oka | ![]() | Originally manufactured by the Trappist monks, who are located in Oka, Quebec, Canada | A semi-soft washed rind cheese, Oka has a distinct flavour and aroma, and is still manufactured in Oka, although now by a commercial company. |
Pikauba | ![]() | Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec [114] | A semi-firm cow's milk cheese, farmer made by hand, that is recognized by its fine orange rind and its soft, golden paste, strewn with small holes. |
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Palmito cheese | ![]() | A popular fresh cheese from Costa Rica that resembles a knotted ball of string cheese | |
Turrialba cheese | ![]() | Turrialba, Cartago Province | A salty young cheese made of cow's milk |
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Cuajada | ![]() | ||
Crema [115] | A spreadable, unripened white cheese. [115] | ||
Enredo | |||
Queto |
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Crema [115] | A spreadable, unripened white cheese. [115] | ||
Cuajada | ![]() | ||
Quesillo | ![]() | ||
Queijo seco [116] |
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Adobera cheese | ![]() | From western Mexico, most popular in Jalisco. | Its name is taken from the similarity of its shape to adobe bricks. It is mild and slightly salty to taste. Young Adobera has a soft texture and can be crumbled or cubed. As the cheese matures, its texture becomes more creamy and it can no longer be crumbled. It melts well. |
Añejo cheese | | A firm, aged Mexican cheese traditionally made from skimmed goat's milk but most often available made from skimmed cow's milk. After it is made it is rolled in paprika to add additional flavor to its salty sharp flavor. | |
Asadero cheese | First made in Chihuahua and later Durango. Immigrants brought Asadero cheese making to the southwestern United States. | Asadero cheese is a soft cheese that melts easily. It is usually made in the shape of a round tortilla. [117] [118] Often mistaken for Oaxaca cheese. [119] | |
Chiapas cheese [120] | A dry cream cheese with a crumbly texture that is formed into balls and often has string cheese wrapped around it. [120] | ||
Chihuahua cheese | From the state of Chihuahua. | A soft white cheese available in braids, balls or rounds. Also known as queso menonita, after the Mennonite communities of northern Mexico that first produced it. Tastes similar to a mild white Cheddar or Monterey Jack and melts well. | |
Cotija cheese | ![]() | Named for the city Cotija in the state of Michoacán. | Made from cow's milk, young Cotija is similar to Feta, while aged Cojita is more like Parmesan. It does not melt when heated. |
Criollo cheese | ![]() | A specialty of the region around Taxco, Guerrero. | A grateable Mexican cheese similar to American-style Munster cheese |
Lingallin | |||
Oaxaca cheese | ![]() | Named after the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, where it was first made [121] | A white, semihard stretched curd cheese from Mexico, [122] [121] similar to unaged Monterey Jack, but with a stringy Mozzarella-like texture. |
Queso Crema | ![]() | ||
Queso de cuajo | |||
Queso Fresco | | ||
Queso Panela | ![]() | A white, fresh and smooth Mexican cheese of pasteurized cow's milk | |
Requesón | A Mexican version of Ricotta that is used in salads, soups, cooked foods, dips and desserts. It is very mild and has a semi-sweet flavor. Itsb texture is soft, moist and slightly grainy. |
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Quesillo | ![]() |
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Bergenost | ![]() | New York | Brand name of a semi-soft cheese with a mild, smooth flavor and a subtle hint of sourness. Bergenost is a triple-cream, Norwegian-style butter cheese made by Yancey's Fancy of Corfu, New York using imported Norwegian cultures. |
Brick cheese | ![]() | Wisconsin | Prepared in brick-shaped form, the color ranges from pale yellow to white, and it has a sweet and mild flavor when young, and matures into a strong ripe cheese with age. It is medium-soft, crumbles easily and is somewhat sticky to the knife. |
Cheese curds | ![]() | Upper Midwest | Best eaten within 24–48 hours of production and at room temperature. Fresh curds will often come in a bag and have a little whey in the bag. They are often high in moisture and salty and will likely squeak while you chew them. After a couple days or after any refrigeration they can be "regenerated" with a couple seconds in a microwave, but they will not be the same or as fresh. They are good in an omelete or breaded and fried at this point. After a few days they will be like a young colby or cheddar. |
Colby cheese | ![]() | Wisconsin | Kin to cheddar, but much milder. The curd is washed at production to rinse off the lactose (milk sugars). Bacteria do not have a chance to make the cheese more acidic as it ages, unlike cheddar. It melts well. |
Colby-Jack cheese | ![]() | Wisconsin | A marbled cheese composed of Colby and Monterey Jack that originates from the city of Colby, Wisconsin. It is often used in meat and cheese trays. |
Colorado Blackie | Colorado | A cheese from the American West named for its black waxed rind. | |
Cream cheese | ![]() | ||
Creole cream cheese | New Orleans, Louisiana | ||
Cup Cheese | |||
Farmer cheese | ![]() | ||
Hoop cheese | A cheese made only using milk | ||
Humboldt Fog | ![]() | California | A mold-ripened cheese with a central line of edible white ash much like Morbier |
Liederkranz cheese | New York | ||
Monterey Jack | California | An American white, semi-hard cheese made using cow's milk. It is noted for its mild flavor and slight sweetness. [123] | |
Muenster cheese | ![]() | Mild, semi-soft cow's milk cheese with a creamy texture and distinctive orange rind. Excellent for melting in sandwiches and burgers, and pairs well with light beers and fruits. A milder counterpart to the stronger French Munster. [124] | |
Nacho cheese | ![]() | Texas | A generic name used to refer to a variety of processed cheese sauces flavored with peppers and spices, typically poured on top of nachos or served on their own as a dip for a variety of foods. Nacho cheese is also referred to as simply "queso." |
Pepper jack cheese | ![]() | A variety of Monterey Jack | |
Pinconning cheese | Michigan | An aged variety of Colby | |
Provel cheese | ![]() | A white, processed cheese made of a blend of Cheddar, Swiss, and Provolone cheeses. Particularly popular in and around St Louis, MO. | |
Red Hawk | ![]() | Northern California | A soft, mildly salty cheese |
String cheese | ![]() | The particular American variety of Mozzarella with a stringy texture | |
Teleme cheese | |||
Cottage cheese | ![]() | It is a fresh cheese curd product with a mild flavor and soupy texture. [125] It is drained, but not pressed, so some whey remains and the individual curds remain loose. |
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Tasty cheese | The name-equivalent of cheddar cheese used in Australia and New Zealand, especially manufacturers and sellers. [126] |
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Cremoso cheese | ![]() | A fresh cheese elaborated with cow's milk, with or without the addition of cream. It has its origin in Argentina, and derives from Italian cheeses with similar characteristics as Crescenza. | |
Criollo | |||
Goya | ![]() | ||
Reggianito | ![]() | Pictured are rounds of Argentine Reggianito cheese, accompanied with bread. | |
Sardo | ![]() | ||
Chubut | |||
Tandil | |||
Mar del Plata | |||
Tafí del Valle | |||
Cuartirolo | |||
Provoleta | |||
Queso de Maquina |
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Chaqueño | |||
Menonita |
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Catupiry | ![]() | A soft, mild-tasting cheese that can be spread over toasts, crackers and bread buns or used in cooking. Because of its low level of acidity, catupiry has become an ingredient in various dishes. It is one of the most popular "requeijão" (creamy cheese) brands in Brazil. | |
Minas | | Comes in four varieties, named queijos-de-minas frescal (fresh), meia-cura (half-aged) and curado (aged). A fourth variety, branded queijo padrão ("standard" cheese) has been developed more recently and can be found in nearly all supermarkets and grocery stores in Brazil. | |
Queijo coalho | ![]() | A firm but very lightweight cheese produced in Northeastern Brazil | |
Queijo de Colônia | ![]() | or Colony cheese. | |
Queijo Meia Cura | |||
Queijo Canastra | ![]() | Made from raw cow's milk and has a mildly spicy, full bodied flavor | |
Queijo Cobocó | |||
Queijo-do-Reino | A Brazilian semi-hard cheese, similar to the Dutch Edam cheese | ||
Queijo do Serro | |||
Queijo Manteiga | |||
Queijo prato | A Brazilian soft cheese, similar to the Danish cheese danbo | ||
Requeijão | ![]() | In Brazil, Requeijão is a type of cream cheese white in color (but not similar to the American notion of cream cheese, and may be better understood as "creamy cheese"). It has a mild taste and its consistency can vary from creamy solid to liquid. |
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Chanco cheese | ![]() | Cow's milk cheese originally from the Chanco farm in Maule Region. Now it is produced all over south-central Chile, and represents almost 50% of Chilean cheese consumption. | |
Panquehue | Andean Aconcagua region | A semi-soft cheese, it is one of the most popular cheeses in Chile, it is similar in taste to Tilsit and often has chives or red pepper flakes mixed in. [127] [128] | |
Renaico |
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Queso Campesino [129] | Antioquia, Cundinamarca, Boyaca . | is called Quesito too, fresh made on big wheels traditionally | |
Queso costeño [130] | ![]() | Caribbean | A kind of Queso Campesino with a high content of salt in order to be kept longer fresh under salt water |
Cuajada [131] | Department of Cundinamarca and Boyacá, oriental mountains | is a kind of fresh done cheese with only one or few days of mature. Is the same kind as Quesillo. Comparable to Mozzarella is kept fresh in Banana leaves where it gets actually its typical form and texture | |
Queso Paipa | ![]() | Paipa is a city in Boyacá Department, with a high production of Holstein Milk. | Made since colonial times, it is a semi-hard, semi-fat and semi-cured cheese. |
Queso Pera | A kind of mature Mozzarella specifically in a pressed form of a pear forms layers which give the special favorite taste. An industrial variation is filled with very sweet guave/guayaba marmalade | ||
Quesillo | ![]() | In Colombia, quesillo is a type of double cream cheese wrapped within a plantain leaf, made originally in the Tolima Department; the town of Guamo is most known for this dairy product. | |
Queso 7 cueros | From the Meta Department and the eastern plains | similar to the Pera cheese. The cheese is made with rich in fat milk. In the process it is heated and stretched in a technique called "pasta hilada" creating threads that make layers called "cueros" which give the siete cueros cheese its characteristical texture. |
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Paraguay | ![]() | Paraguay | Made with whole cow's milk, without skimming. Creamy cheese, soft mass and slightly sour flavor. |
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Allpachaca | Ayacucho | Different regional varieties, similar to Andean cheese (Queso Andino). | |
Queso Andino | Cajamarca | Smooth texture and mild flavor. | |
Queso fresco | | Regional version of the traditional fresh cheese, soft and white in color. |
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Colonia | Colonia | It is a soft cheese with a hard rind, light yellow color and abundant eyes. | |
Cuartirolo | Ripened, high moisture and fatty cheese. Soft, creamy, somewhat elastic consistency. Smooth, closed and uniform texture. Uniform yellowish-white colour. Slightly acid taste. Mild smell. Made from pasteurized milk. | ||
Danbo | It is a washed curd, ripened cheese, from standardised and pasteurized milk. A variation of Danish danbo cheese. It is a matured cheese, of medium moisture and fat. Semi-hard, elastic consistency. Compact, smooth, not grainy texture. Uniform yellowish white colour. Lactic, smooth, slightly salty, characteristic flavor. This cheese comes in blocks which are salted, and surface dried. vacuum packaged and stored for ripening. [132] | ||
Sándwich | Processed mold cheese, specially made for the production of Sandwiches de miga (crust free). | ||
Termal | Colonia Juan Gutiérrez, Paysandú | It is made using the salty waters of the Almirón Hot Springs. Made with whole cow's milk. Presentation: cylindrical in shape, approximately 1 kg, 10 cm in diameter, and 8 cm high, smooth and clean surface. Color: slightly light yellow. | |
Yamandú | It was a type of Gouda cheese, with a firm, semi-hard paste, made with unpasteurized milk and with the addition of selected ferments. It ceased to be produced in 1980 due to changes in the sanitary requirement for pasteurization. [133] | ||
Zapicán | Made with cow's milk, from 3 to 4 kg in weight. It has a firm consistency and texture, with some spherical eyes and a smooth but defined flavor. Used as cut cheese. [134] |
Name | Image | Region | Description | |
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Guayanés cheese | Guayana Region | A soft, salty, white cheese. | ||
Queso crineja [135] | ||||
Queso de mano [136] | | A type of soft, white cheese (queso fresco) most commonly associated with Venezuelan cuisine. Pictured is a cachapa with queso de mano. | ||
Queso Llanero [137] | Also known as prairie cheese and queso de año. | |||
Queso Palmita | A soft, watery, fresh white cheese with big holes, produced from pasteurized milk. It is usually made in large circular containers 6 feet in diameter and four feet in height. | |||
Queso Parma de Barinitas [ citation needed ] | Queso semiduro [138] | |||
Queso telita [115] | A mild farmer's cheese that is packaged in liquid. [115] |
Some types of cheese were either developed in various locales independently (usually as un-aged products from the beginning stages of dairy processing and cheesemaking), or are not actually cheese products. Examples include:
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Farmer cheese | ![]() | Various | Varieties of which are made in most cultures with a strong dairy culture |
Port wine cheese | An orange- and red-colored cheese that prepared with alcoholic port wine as it is made [139] | ||
Smoked cheese | ![]() | Various | A style of preparing any number of hard or semi-hard cheeses, using smoke or smoke flavoring. [140] [141] Pictured is smoked Gruyère cheese |
Soy cheese | ![]() | Not a dairy product, but a cheese analogue made from soybeans/soy protein. [142] Pictured is soy cheese manufactured to the consistency of a cream cheese. | |
Rice cheese | As with soy cheese, an analogue from rice/rice protein [143] |
Škripavac cheese.
Geography has left Cyprus heir to numerous culinary traditions—particularly those of the Levant, Anatolia, and Greece – but some dishes, such as the island's halloumi cheese [...] are purely Cypriot.
Haloumi, or halumi, is a mild salty Cypriot cheese made from goat's, ewe's, or cow's milk.
Cyprus has managed to secure EU recognition of halloumi as a traditional cheese of Cyprus; therefore no other country may export cheese of the same name.
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Monterey Jack is a stirred curd Cheddar without any annatto coloring. It is sweeter than most and milder when young.