GerMs in Cheese

If you were invited to eat a delicacy made of curdled, month-old milk that smelt, grew crust, and was injected with greenish-blue mould, you might think “Yuck! No thanks!” Yet you have

probably eaten all kinds of cheese without a thought. is Cheese Disgusting? If you’re used to cheese, it probably seems very normal and not disgusting at all. But in some places, especially parts of Asia, people aren’t used to eating dairy products, and their bodies are not good at digesting milk and cheese. They often find the idea of cheese quite disgusting, especially mouldy blue cheese! Cheese is made of milk that has been allowed to go bad, but in a carefully controlled way. The strong smells and flavours of cheese come partly from bacteria that is added to help milk change into cheese. moulDy Veins To make blue cheese, something even more disgusting happens. It has mould spores injected or stirred into it to make clumps and streaks (or “veins”) of mould grow. When we find mould on bread or bananas, we throw them away – yet we eat it in cheese! It adds a sharp, tangy taste and makes cheese smell like sweaty socks. You might love cheese – or find it really revolting. Bacterial gas is what makes

Swiss cheese so holey.

photo credit to http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/11/26/human-cheese-is-really-thing/