Dataset: Global Cheese Dataset

About this Dataset

Global Cheese Dataset

Context

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.

Content

Geography: Global

Time period: 2024

Unit of analysis: Global Cheese Dataset

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?

Variables

Variable	Description
cheese	Name of the cheese.
url	Location of the cheese's description at cheese.com
milk	The type of milk used for the cheese, when known.
country	The country or countries of origin of the cheese.
region	The region in which the cheese is produced, either within the country of origin, or as a wider description of multiple countries.
family	The family to which the cheese belongs, if any.
type	The broad type or types to describe the cheese.
fat_content	The fat content of the cheese, as a percent or range of percents.
calcium_content	The calcium content of the cheese, when known. Values include units.
texture	The texture of the cheese.
rind	The type of rind used in producing the cheese.
color	The color of the cheese.
flavor	Characteristic(s) of the taste of the cheese.
aroma	Characteristic(s) of the smell of the cheese.
vegetarian	Whether cheese.com considers the cheese to be vegetarian.
vegan	Whether cheese.com considers the cheese to be vegan.
synonyms	Alternative names of the cheese.
alt_spellings	Alternative spellings of the name of the cheese (likely overlaps with synonyms).
producers	Known producers of the cheese.

Acknowledgements

Datasource: Cheese.com

Inspiration: Cheese Blog

Tables

Cheeses

@kaggle.umerhaddii_global_cheese_dataset.cheeses

91.43 KB
1187 rows
19 columns


CREATE TABLE cheeses (
  "cheese" VARCHAR,
  "url" VARCHAR,
  "milk" VARCHAR,
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "region" VARCHAR,
  "family" VARCHAR,
  "type" VARCHAR,
  "fat_content" VARCHAR,
  "calcium_content" VARCHAR,
  "texture" VARCHAR,
  "rind" VARCHAR,
  "color" VARCHAR,
  "flavor" VARCHAR,
  "aroma" VARCHAR,
  "vegetarian" VARCHAR,
  "vegan" VARCHAR,
  "synonyms" VARCHAR,
  "alt_spellings" VARCHAR,
  "producers" VARCHAR
);

Cheese Details

@kaggle.umerhaddii_global_cheese_dataset.cheese_details

75.14 KB
1187 rows
18 columns


CREATE TABLE cheese_details (
  "url" VARCHAR,
  "milk" VARCHAR,
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "region" VARCHAR,
  "family" VARCHAR,
  "type" VARCHAR,
  "fat_content" VARCHAR,
  "calcium_content" VARCHAR,
  "texture" VARCHAR,
  "rind" VARCHAR,
  "color" VARCHAR,
  "flavor" VARCHAR,
  "aroma" VARCHAR,
  "vegetarian" VARCHAR,
  "vegan" VARCHAR,
  "synonyms" VARCHAR,
  "alt_spellings" VARCHAR,
  "producers" VARCHAR
);