Cheese
248 different types of cheese with various characteristics.
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About this Dataset
Cheese
Cheese
This data comes from cheese.com.
Cheese is nutritious food made mostly from the milk of cows but also other mammals, including sheep, goats, buffalo, reindeer, camels and yaks. Around 4000 years ago people have started to breed animals and process their milk. That's when the cheese was born.
Explore this site to find out about different kinds of cheese from all around the world.
248 cheeses have listed fat content.
Is there a relationship between fat content and cheese type?
What about texture, flavor, or aroma?
Data Dictionary
cheeses.csv
| variable | class | description |
|---|---|---|
| cheese | character | Name of the cheese. |
| url | character | Location of the cheese's description at cheese.com |
| milk | character | The type of milk used for the cheese, when known. |
| country | character | The country or countries of origin of the cheese. |
| region | character | The region in which the cheese is produced, either within the country of origin, or as a wider description of multiple countries. |
| family | character | The family to which the cheese belongs, if any. |
| type | character | The broad type or types to describe the cheese. |
| fat_content | character | The fat content of the cheese, as a percent or range of percents. |
| calcium_content | character | The calcium content of the cheese, when known. Values include units. |
| texture | character | The texture of the cheese. |
| rind | character | The type of rind used in producing the cheese. |
| color | character | The color of the cheese. |
| flavor | character | Characteristic(s) of the taste of the cheese. |
| aroma | character | Characteristic(s) of the smell of the cheese. |
| vegetarian | logical | Whether cheese.com considers the cheese to be vegetarian. |
| vegan | logical | Whether cheese.com considers the cheese to be vegan. |
| synonyms | character | Alternative names of the cheese. |
| alt_spellings | character | Alternative spellings of the name of the cheese (likely overlaps with synonyms). |
| producers | character | Known producers of the cheese. |