Which cheeses are made from raw milk?

This is how you learn about the differences between cheese types

• Special regulations are not only to be observed in the manufacturing process for cheeses made from raw milk. Note that the milk for cheese is checked before processing. These include purity, bacteriological quality, a high protein content and a certain acidity.
• Milk for cheeses that are not made from raw milk is pasteurized. Note that this heats the milk to 72°C to 75°C for 15 to 30 seconds, killing unwanted bacteria and leaving the milk sterile.
• Raw milk cheese is made from untreated milk. This means that the milk has not been heated above 40 °C and the original, natural bacterial flora is preserved. With consumption you get the characteristic taste of the milk and you can be sure that the cheese contains the full fat content of 3.5% to 4.5%.
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• In addition to germs that are harmless to health and have a desirable taste, there is a residual risk for pregnant women that pathogens survive due to the lack of pasteurization. Note that the health risk is minimized by checking the milk for pathogenic germs is examined particularly rigorously and raw milk cheese manufacturers have significantly higher requirements for inspection subject.
• If you are pregnant, you should avoid cheeses made from raw milk and which include soft cheese. The spread of pathogenic germs, such as listeria, is particularly high here.


Raw milk products - overview and useful information about the products

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• From a bacteriological point of view, you can safely consume hard cheese made from raw milk, since during the manufacturing process, the heating of the curd, the longer salt bath and the long maturing period, harmful germs be killed.
• Protected origin hard cheeses, which belong to the cheeses made from raw milk, have a special aroma and taste. They contain a lot of calcium and magnesium, which are involved in a variety of metabolic processes. Therefore, you should not do without hard cheeses as a pregnant woman.
• If you buy a whole loaf of cheese and it is in the original packaging, you will find the declination as raw milk cheese. If you are a customer of a specialty cheese shop, the specialist staff will be happy to answer your question as to whether the selected type of cheese is raw milk cheese.

Overview of varieties that are made from raw milk

• The Allgäu mountain cheese is one of the hard cheeses, which belong to the cheeses made from raw milk. It is interesting for you as a pregnant woman that it may only be made in the alpine huts of the Allgäu Alps and in a few valley cheese dairies in the Oberallgäu. With a maturation period of at least 4 months to a year, it develops its full, intensively spicy aroma. You can only get the original Allgäu mountain cheese in specialty cheese shops.
• If you are pregnant, you can enjoy hard Beaufort cheese. The origin-protected cheese from the Alpine regions of France is stored for at least 6 months and is given the addition "Haute Montagne" if it is older than six months.
• Comté mountain cheese, which is one of the types of cheese made from partially skimmed raw milk, comes from the Jura. Before it is sold, it is checked by the Appelation Gomté and, if the check is passed, it receives a green bell on the edge of the cheese or on the packaging. As a pregnant woman, you can be sure that you are buying a germ-free cheese.
• The original Swiss Emmental is also one of the types of cheese that you can safely enjoy. It is made from raw milk from cows that are fed grass and hay but no silo.
• If you like sheep's cheese, you can safely add Idiazábal, made in the Basque Country, to your diet. It is one of the types of cheese that is made from raw sheep's milk, has to mature for at least 6 months and is then smoked over beech or cherry wood. You can use it as grated cheese to gratinate and you can get it in specialist cheese shops as well as in Spanish specialty shops.