About cheese

Slow@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 25 points –

I buy inexpensive hard cheese from different manufacturers. Recently I began to notice that most types of such cheese have honey notes.

It seemed to me that the cheese contained honey, but this was not written on the label.

Is there something wrong with my taste or is this evidence of a violation of cheese making technology?

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Why would inexpensive cheese manufacturers secretly add expensive ingredients like honey?

Perhaps this aftertaste is caused by some unnatural ingredients in the composition. Nowadays, milk fat substitutes, calcium chloride and many other bad things are added to inexpensive cheeses.

It would be interesting to listen to the opinion of a technologist who produces similar products.

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milk fat substitutes, calcium chloride and many other bad things

Just because this comment can be easily misinterpreted:

  • Milk fat substitutes are just plant oils.
  • Calcium chloride is what they inject into you if you have a severe calcium deficiency. It's just calcium salt. Your regular table salt is Sodium chloride. Nigari is magnesium chloride used to make tofu. All three are salts that can be extracted from normal seawater.

Both plant fats and CaCl2 are natural, neither of them are "bad" (when, like everything, they're consumed in sensible amounts) and they should not be lumped in with "other bad things", even if you don't like those ingredients in your cheese.

Cheap honey is cheap because it's been adulterated with cheap non-honey syrup

Is what the article I just posted says. Good summary.

My point is that manufacturers can throw all sorts of cheap stuff in that tastes like other stuff.