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Blue cheese. Blue cheese[a] is any of a wide range of cheeses made with the addition of cultures of edible molds, which create blue-green spots or veins through the cheese. Blue cheeses vary in taste from very mild to strong, and from slightly sweet to salty or sharp; in colour from pale to dark; and in consistency from liquid to hard.
Wheels of gorgonzola cheese ripening Dorset Blue Vinney Shropshire Blue Stichelton at a market. Blue cheese is a general classification of cheeses that have had cultures of the mold Penicillium added so that the final product is spotted or veined throughout with blue, or blue-grey mold and carries a distinct smell, either from that or various specially cultivated bacteria.
Penicillium roqueforti. Penicillium roqueforti is a common saprotrophic fungus in the genus Penicillium. Widespread in nature, it can be isolated from soil, decaying organic matter, and plants. The major industrial use of this fungus is the production of blue cheeses, flavouring agents, antifungals, polysaccharides, proteases, and other enzymes.
Roquefortine C is a mycotoxin that belongs to a class of naturally occurring 2,5-diketopiperazines [1] produced by various fungi, particularly species from the genus Penicillium. [2] It was first isolated from a strain of Penicillium roqueforti, a species commercially used as a source of proteolytic and lipolytic enzymes during maturation of ...
Binomial name. Penicillium caseifulvum. Filtenborg & Frisvad 1998 [1] Type strain. CBS 108956, IBT 19782 [2] Penicillium caseifulvum is a fungus species of the genus of Penicillium which occurs on the surface of blue cheese and causes discoloration in form of brown spots. [1][3][4][5][6]
Stilton cheese. Stilton is an English cheese, produced in two varieties: Blue, which has Penicillium roqueforti added to generate a characteristic smell and taste, and White, which does not. Both have been granted the status of a protected designation of origin (PDO) by the European Commission, requiring that only such cheese produced in the ...
Roquefort (French pronunciation:) is a sheep milk blue cheese from southern France. [2] Though similar cheeses are produced elsewhere, EU law dictates that only those cheeses aged in the natural Combalou caves of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon may bear the name Roquefort, as it is a recognised geographical indication, and has a protected designation of origin.
Penicillium glaucum, a mold that is used in the making of some types of blue cheese, including Bleu de Gex, Rochebaron, and some varieties of Bleu d'Auvergne and Gorgonzola. Penicillium imranianum; Penicillium italicum, a Citrus pathogen; Penicillium lacussarmientei; Penicillium lusitanum, isolated from marine habitat; Penicillium purpurogenum