Some facts about cheese
- Cheese have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs over 4,000 years old.
- The word cheese comes from Latin caseus.
- Cheese was popular in ancient Greece and Rome, but fresh milk and butter were not.
- Cheese consists of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of goats, cows, buffalo, or sheep
- Cheese takes up about ten percent of the volume of the milk it was made from.
- Some studies claim that mozzarella, cheddar, Swiss and American cheeses can help to prevent tooth decay.
- Leicester Cheddar and Cheshire cheeses have been colored with annatto seed for over two-hundred years.
- Contrary to the idea that cheese commonly causes nightmares, the effect of cheese upon sleep was positive.
- Non-pasteurized cheeses are legal in the United States as long as they’re more than 60 days old.
- Germany is the world's largest (per capita) consumer of cheese, with 31.1 kg eaten by the average German.
- The single most frequently eaten cheese in the United States is Mozzarella.
- The largest producer of cheese is the United States, accounting for thirty percent of world production, followed by Germany and France.
- The mold in blue cheeses is a penicillium.
