Is this cheese legal?

Aska · Mon Sep 13, 2021 7:49 pm

Hi I came across a specific cheese that the company usually produces produce that are mostly legal. I wanted to know if this cheese is legal the ingredients are: pasteurized cows milk, renet, cultures, salt, and natamycin. Attached is a picture of the cheese [attachment=0]5068a8cfee1b6aa7cc0a364a867acef58d207647.jpeg[/attachment]

esther · Tue Sep 14, 2021 10:52 am

As this cheese is less than 1 g of carbs/30 grams of cheese (1.3g/42.5g=0.918g/30g), and the ingredients are okay then this would be legal.

Aska · Tue Sep 14, 2021 12:21 pm

I’m not understanding the whole grams thingy lol so this cheese is legal??

esther · Tue Sep 14, 2021 12:49 pm

yes, this product is legal

julie.cochrane · Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:19 pm

With cheese, I understood the "legality" to be based not only on ingredients, but also how long it's been aged. I never heard of it being based on grams of carbs. Can you please point me to where I can read more about this? Does cheese that has been aged for longer contain fewer carbs? Thank you!

esther · Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:32 am

The following explanation is from Sheila:\nAfter online discussion many years ago Elaine elaborated on the cheese conundrum by giving the directions that if cheese is legal if aged at least 1 month and has legal cheese ingredients that include a microbial culture ( *If a cheese is not a processed cheese (manufactured) but is a cheese that has had a bacterial culture involved with its production and is aged at least 30 days).\n Cheeses that are aged at least 30 days and associated with a culture should have almost 0 carbs as the culture digests the lactose. Zero carbs equates to zero lactose. So, if a cheese has zero carbs it will have no lactose and as long as there are no other illegal ingredients added it would be SCD legal. Elaine did make the cut off 1g/ounce of cheese = 1 g of carbs/~28g of cheese.\n\nIt can sometimes be difficult to find out how long a cheese has been aged but many nutrition labels will now give you information on the amount of carbs in a serving size. From that label information you can determine if it is more or less than the legal 1 g of carbs/~28g of cheese. \n\nAnd to answer your question: cheese that is aged will contain fewer carbs (lactose) than a cheese that is not aged or insufficiently aged. \n\nHope this helps , if not I can try to explain further.