Goat cheese Goat cheese, or chèvre ( or ; from French ''fromage de chèvre'' 'goat cheese'), is cheese made from goat's milk. Goats were among the first animals to be domesticated for producing food. Goat cheese is made around the world with a variety of ...

is produced using

goat milk Goat milk is the milk of domestic goats. Goats produce about 2% of the world's total annual milk supply. Some goats are bred specifically for milk. Goat milk naturally has small, well-emulsified fat globules, which means the cream will stay i ...

, the

milk Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals (including breastfed human infants) before they are able to digest solid food. Immune factors and immune-modulat ...

of domestic goats. Goat milk is commonly used to make cultured

dairy product Dairy products or milk products, also known as lacticinia, are food products made from (or containing) milk. The most common dairy animals are cow, water buffalo, nanny goat, and ewe. Dairy products include common grocery store food items i ...

s, including

cheese Cheese is a dairy product produced in wide ranges of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. During productio ...

. Myriad goat milk cheeses are produced around the world.

Varieties

Anari cheese Anari ( gr, αναρή, tr, nor) is a fresh mild whey cheese produced in Cyprus. Although much less known than other Cypriot cheeses (e.g. halloumi), it gained popularity following publicity. One of the main industrial producers on the island wo ...

* Añejo cheese – a firm, aged Mexican cheese traditionally made from skimmed goat's milk, but most often available made from skimmed cow's milk. *

Anthotyros Anthotyros () (Anthotyro in modern Greek, "flowery cheese") is a traditional fresh cheese. There are dry Anthotyros and fresh Anthotyros. Dry Anthotyros is a matured cheese similar to Mizithra. Anthotyros is made with milk and whey from sheep or ...

* Banon cheese *

Bastardo del Grappa Bastardo del Grappa is a traditional cheese produced in the foothills of Monte Grappa massif and in the provinces of Treviso, Belluno, and Vicenza, in Italy. Bastardo del Grappa is a certified PAT cheese qualifying it as a genuine Italian produc ...

Brunost Brunost ("brown cheese") is a common Norwegian name for mysost ("whey cheese"; da, myseost; sv, mesost; fi, mesjuusto; is, mysuostur), a family of cheese-related foods made with whey, milk, and/or cream. The term is often used to just refer ...

(known as when made with goat milk) – a Norwegian brown goat cheese with a sweet flavor profile Edge of boucheron

* Bucheron – native to the Loire Valley in France *

Cabécou Cabécou is a soft goat cheese that comes from the Midi-Pyrénées region of southern France. It has a thin striped rind and after two weeks its crust grows blue mold changing its taste. It is one of Aquitaine's most famous foods. Aquitaine is a ...

* Cabrales cheese *

Caciotta Caciotta, from the Tuscan , is a type of cheese produced in Italy from the milk of cows, sheep, goats, or water buffalo. Cacciotta has more than a dozen variations. The cheeses are cylindrical in shape and up to weight. The period of ripeni ...

* Caprino cheese *

Castelo Branco cheese Castelo Branco ( Portuguese: ''Queijo de Castelo Branco'') is a cheese named after the city of the same name in Portugal, the main city of the district where it is produced. Since 1996 Castelo Branco cheese has had a Protected designation of o ...

Cathare Cathare is a goat's milk cheese from the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. The cheese comes in flat discs whose face is covered in charcoal powder with the Occitan cross inscribed. Under the rind, Cathare is pure white with a soft, cream ...

Chabichou Chabichou (also known as Chabichou du Poitou) is a traditional semi-soft, unpasteurized, natural-rind French goat cheese (''or Fromage de Chèvre'') with a firm and creamy texture. Chabichou is formed in a cylindrical shape which is called a ...

Chabis Chabis is a French cheese with a delicate flavour and a texture that becomes firmer as it matures. Chabis is a soft cheese produced without heating or pressing, using goat's milk. It features a "croûte fleurie" coating of soft white mould rem ...

Chevrotin Chevrotin is a soft goat milk based cheese produced in the historical region of Savoy, ( France). Since 2002 it has had an AOC designation. Production Chevrotin has been produced since the 17th century in the Alpine foothills of the Savoyard Cha ...

Circassian cheese Circassian cheese ( ady, адыгэ къуае , russian: адыгейский сыр ''adygeyskiy syr'', is a cheese found across the North Caucasus, the Levant and other areas with a Circassian diaspora. The cheese is prepared with raw cow, she ...

Circassian smoked cheese Circassian smoked cheese is a smoked low-fat Circassian cheese, especially produced in the eastern Marmara region The Marmara Region ( Turkish: ''Marmara Bölgesi'') is a geographical region of Turkey. Located in northwestern Turkey, it is bord ...

Couronne lochoise Couronne lochoise. Couronne lochoise is a soft and creamy raw goat's milk cheese originating in the farmlands of the Loches area of Touraine in the Loire Valley, France. Its name literally translates to "Crown of Loches", which references its d ...

Crottin de Chavignol Crottin de Chavignol is a goat cheese produced in the Loire Valley. This cheese is the claim to fame for the village of Chavignol, France, which has only two hundred inhabitants. History The small cylindrical goat cheese from the area around C ...

* Dolaz cheese * Faisselle – a non-protected French cheese made of raw milk from goats, cows or sheep *

Feta Feta ( el, φέτα, ) is a Greek brined white cheese made from sheep's milk or from a mixture of sheep and goat's milk. It is soft, with small or no holes, a compact touch, few cuts, and no skin. Crumbly with a slightly grainy texture, it ...

* Formaela Formatge Garrotxa (2435282542) (cropped)

* Garrotxa cheese *Gbejna friska - a fresh cheeselet similar to ricotta in texture - native to Maltese Islands *Gbejna tal bzar - same as above but aged and coated in black pepper - native to Maltese Islands *Gbejna mghoxxa - same as the fresh cheeslet but left to air dry - native to Maltese Islands *

Halloumi Halloumi or haloumi (, el, χαλούμι, haloúmi; tr, hellim}) is a traditional Cypriot cheese made from a mixture of goat's and sheep's milk, and sometimes also cow's milk. Its texture is described as squeaky. It has a high melting point ...

* Jibneh Arabieh * Kars gravyer cheese * Kasseri * Kefalotyri *

Leipäjuusto Leipäjuusto (bread cheese) or juustoleipä ( fit, kahvijuusto; sv, kaffeost or ''brödost''), also known in the United States as Finnish squeaky cheese, is a Finnish fresh cheese traditionally made from cow's beestings, rich milk from a cow tha ...

* Majorero – from Spain, it is similar to Manchego, and is protected under European Law with

Protected Designation of Origin The protected designation of origin (PDO) is a type of geographical indication of the European Union and the United Kingdom aimed at preserving the designations of origin of food-related products. The designation was created in 1992 and its main ...

(PDO) status. *

Manouri Manouri ( el, μανούρι) is a Greek semi-soft, fresh white mixed milk- whey cheese made from goat or sheep milk as a by-product following the production of feta. It is produced primarily in Thessalia and Macedonia in central and northern ...

* Mató *

Mizithra Mizithra or myzithra ( ) is a Greek whey cheese or mixed milk-whey cheese from sheep or goats, or both. Barron, Rosemary (1991). ''Flavors of Greece.'' William Morrow, It is sold both as a fresh cheese, similar to Italian ''ricotta'', and as a s ...

Nabulsi cheese Nabulsi (or naboulsi) is one of a number of Palestinian white brined cheeses made in the Middle East. Its name refers to its place of origin, Nablus, and it is well known throughout the West Bank and surrounding regions. Nabulsi, along with Akk ...

* Payoyo cheese * Pélardon Cheese-picodon

* Picodon *

Picón Bejes-Tresviso Picón Bejes-Tresviso is a blue cheese from Cantabria, in the north of Spain. It has been protected under Denominación de Origen (DO) legislation since 1994, prior to which it was traditionally known as ''Picón de Tresviso'' and ''Queso Picó ...

* Pouligny-Saint-Pierre cheese *

Rigotte de Condrieu The rigotte de Condrieu is a type of cheese made with goat's milk which originates in the Lyonnaise region of France and is named after the town of Condrieu Condrieu () is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France. It is situated ...

* Robiola * Rocamadour cheese * Rubing Sainte-Maure de touraine 04

Sainte-Maure de Touraine Sainte-Maure de Touraine is a French cheese produced in the province of Touraine, mainly in the department of Indre-et-Loire. It is named after the small town of Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine, in the department of Indre-et-Loire, at equal distance fr ...

* Santarém cheese * Selles-sur-Cher cheese * Snøfrisk * Testouri *

Tulum cheese Tulum cheese ( tr, tulum peyniri) is a traditional Turkish goat's milk cheese ripened in a goatskin casing, called ''tulum'' in Turkish. Cheesemaking Conventional Tulum cheese is made by heating high-fat goat's milk to a temperature of and s ...

* Valençay cheese *

Van herbed cheese Van herbed cheese ( tr, Van otlu peyniri) is a type of cheese made out of sheep's or cow's milk. Ripened cheese varieties containing herbs are traditional in Turkey and have been manufactured for more than 200 years in the east and southeast of ...

Xynomizithra Xynomizithra or xynomyzithra () is a Greek whey cheese with some added milk; it is a sour variant of Mizithra, and made from ewes' and/or goats' milk. The proportion of full-cream milk is about 15%. It is mainly produced on the island of Cret ...

* Xynotyro

Brands

* Ardagh Castle Cheese * Ardsallagh Goat Farm * Blue Rathgore * Bluebell Falls * Bonne Bouche * Bouq Émissaire *

Capricious Capricious may refer to: * Capricieuse, also spelled Capricious, a solitaire card game * Capricious (cheese), an aged goat's milk cheese See also * Arbitrary and capricious In law, the standard of review is the amount of deference given by one ...

Chaubier Chaubier is a washed rind French Cheese made from half goat's milk and half cow's milk Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals (including breastfed huma ...

– a washed rind French Cheese made from half goat's milk and half cow's milk * Chavroux * Chèvre noir * Clochette * Clonmore Cheese * Cooleeney Farmhouse Cheese * Corleggy Cheese *

Gleann Gabhra Gleann Gabhra is a small award-winning Irish cheese company owned by Dominic and Fionnuala Gryson located in Macetown near the Hill of Tara in County Meath, Ireland, producing a single cheese, Tara Bán, a mild-flavoured goat's Cheddar with a f ...

* Glyde Farm Produce * Harbourne Blue *

Humboldt Fog Humboldt Fog is a goat milk cheese made by Cypress Grove, of Arcata, California, in Humboldt County. It is named for the local ocean fog which rolls in from Humboldt Bay. It is an uncooked pressed cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk. Hum ...

Kunik cheese Kunik is a brand of cow and goat milk cheese. It is described by the producer as a semi-aged, triple cream wheel cheese made from 25% Jersey cow cream and 75% goat's milk. It has an edible, bloomy white rind; a tangy, buttery flavor; and a thick, ...

* Pantysgawn *

St Tola St Tola goats cheese is a range of handmade goat's milk cheese made in Inagh, County Clare. A range of cheese are produced varying from fresh soft cheese to a Gouda style hard cheese. History Originally, the business was set up by Meg and D ...

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