How does cheese get its color?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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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. Got a question on your rind? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll help cut through to the answer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of yum.
0:12.0	Um, um, um, comes to you from APM studios. I'm chef Gordon Bleu. Happy food week.
0:21.0	Um. 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.
0:31.5	Hey, hey you, stop this instant.
0:35.8	You are the monster that's stolen six and a half pounds of cheese.
0:40.1	But you're so teeny-weeney.
0:42.7	How could you eat all of that?
0:44.4	I am not teeny-weeney, and I'm not eating it.
0:48.2	We mice don't even like cheese that much.
0:50.1	I'm an artist.
0:51.8	Behold!
0:53.7	Is that?
0:55.0	An exact replica of Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system, made entirely out of cheese?
1:00.0	Yep! The creamy colors of your brie, camoamere, feta, and goat cheese, along with some pops of orange and yellow from aged cheddar, were perfect for capturing its textured to rain.
1:10.0	It's not my fault that cheese was the best material for this task.
1:13.9	Actually, I don't even know how cheese gets these great colors.
1:17.0	Hmm.
1:18.0	Listener Evelyn was wondering the same thing.
1:20.4	Hi, I'm Evelyn from Maryland,
1:23.8	and my question is, how does cheese get its color?
1:28.3	If we're talking about cheddar cheese or American cheese, that's orange,
1:34.3	that's actually, it's an added color called Anato.
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