Different Types of Cheese: From Gouda to Cheddar, Here’s a List of Cheese Names You Ought To Know

By Team LatestlyJuly 13, 2021
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Queso Blanco Cheese

Queso blanco, is a popular Latin American cheese, literally meaning white cheese in Spanish. It can refer to many different kind of cheeses whose only common trait is their white colour.

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Mozzarella Cheese

Mozzarella is a traditionally southern Italian cheese made from Italian buffalo's milk by the pasta filata method.

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Gouda Cheese

Gouda is a sweet, creamy, yellow cow's milk cheese originating from the Netherlands.

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Feta Cheese

Feta is a Greek brined curd white cheese made from sheep's milk or from a mixture of sheep and goat's milk.

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Cheddar Cheese

Originating in the English village of Cheddar in Somerset, it is relatively hard, off-white, sometimes sharp-tasting, natural cheese.

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Camembert Cheese

First made in the late 18th-century at Camembert, Normandy, in northwest France, Camembert is a moist, soft, creamy, surface-ripened cow's milk cheese.

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Burrata Cheese

Burrata is an Italian cow milk cheese made from mozzarella and cream.

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Brie Cheese

Brie is a pale-coloured, soft cow's-milk cheese named after Brie, the French region from which it originated.

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Blue Cheese

Blue cheese or bleu cheese is cheese made with cultures of the mold Penicillium, giving it spots or veins of the mold.

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Asiago Cheese

Asiago is a cow's milk cheese, first produced in Italy, that can assume different textures according to its aging.

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American Cheese

Modern American cheese is a type of processed cheese developed in the 1910s made from cheddar, Colby, or similar cheeses

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