How does cheese get its color?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Happy Food Week! We’re excited to bring you a whole week of delicious Moment of Yums leading up to Thanksgiving. First up: cheese! Cheese is delicious! It can be stringy, stretchy, stinky, salty, or sweet. It can be eaten fresh or aged for more than a decade. But it only comes in a few different colors. We asked food scientist Craig Sherwin to help us find out why.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of yum. Moment of Am comes to you from APM Studios. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Chef Gordon Bluh. |
| 0:18.8 | Happy Food Week. |
| 0:20.0 | I had been hoping to put together a nice cheese board for all of you, but someone seems to have made off with my supplies. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey, hey you, stop this instant. |
| 0:35.0 | You are the monster that's stolen six and a half pounds of cheese. |
| 0:40.0 | But you're so teeny-weeny. |
| 0:42.0 | How could you eat all of that? |
| 0:44.4 | I am not teeny weeny and I'm not eating it. We mice don't even like cheese that much. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm an artist. Be behold! Is that? |
| 0:55.0 | An exact replica of Ganyanamied, the largest moon in our solar system, |
| 0:59.0 | made entirely out of cheese? |
| 1:01.0 | Yep, the creamy colors of your brie, Camembert, Feta, and Go cheese, along with some |
| 1:05.4 | pops of orange and yellow from aged cheddar were perfect for capturing its |
| 1:09.3 | textured terrain. It's not my fault that cheese was the best material for this task. |
| 1:14.0 | Actually, I don't even know how cheese gets these great colors. |
| 1:17.0 | Hmm, listener Evelyn was wondering the same thing. |
| 1:20.0 | Hi, I'm Evelyn from Maryland, and my question is how does cheese get its color? |
| 1:29.0 | If we're talking about cheddar cheese or American cheese that's orange. That's actually it's an added |
| 1:36.4 | color called Anato and it's actually added by the cheesemaker to give it that kind |
| 1:40.7 | of distinctive delicious look. |
| 1:44.1 | My name is Craig Sherwin, and I work for a company called Nova Zimes, |
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