Interesting facts about cheese Is a great opportunity to learn more about dairy products. Cheese is very popular all over the world, being known in ancient times. Today there are a huge number of types of this product, which differ in taste, smell, hardness and price.
So, here are the most interesting facts about cheese.
- Today, the most popular type of cheese is Italian parmesan.
- Carpathian vurda cheese, made on the basis of sheep's milk, can be stored in the freezer for an unlimited time without fear of losing its properties.
- Our body absorbs protein better from cheese than from milk (see interesting facts about milk).
- Cheese is rich in vitamins of groups A, D, E, B, PP and C. They increase appetite and have a positive effect on digestion.
- Cheese contains a large amount of calcium and phosphorus.
- Herbs, spices and even wood smoke are often used as flavoring agents for cheese.
- Until the beginning of the last century, the enzyme required for the production of cheese was extracted from the stomachs of calves no more than 10 days old. Today, people have learned to obtain this enzyme through genetic engineering.
- The mold of the genus penicillus is used to make blue cheeses. By the way, the famous scientist Alexander Fleming received the first antibiotic in history - penicillin, from this type of mold.
- An interesting fact is that in some cases, cheese makers put cheese mites on the head of the cheese, which affect its ripening.
- Often the name of the cheese speaks of the place where it was first produced. Also, cheese is often named after the person who came up with the recipe for its manufacture.
- Germany is the largest importer of cheese in the world.
- Archaeological finds testify that man learned how to make cheese more than 7 thousand years ago.
- The largest amount of cheese per capita is consumed in Greece (see interesting facts about Greece). The average Greek eats over 31 kg of this product in 1 year.
- In the era of Peter 1, Russian cheesemakers prepared cheese without heat treatment, hence the name of the product - cheese, that is, "raw".
- The largest head of cheese in Russia was prepared by Barnaul cheese makers. Her weight was 721 kg.
- Tyrosemiophilia - collecting cheese labels.
- Did you know that a French cheesemaker wrote a book for 17 years in which he managed to describe over 800 types of cheese?
- It is a myth that mice (see interesting facts about mice) love cheese.
- The British Queen Victoria was presented with a 500-kilogram head of cheddar cheese during her wedding.
- Experts call the holes in the cheese - "eyes".
