Green Cheese - Varieties

Varieties

Green cheese varieties include:

• Basiron Pesto a grass-coloured Dutch Gouda with added Pesto to give it a deep green colour.
• Cherni Vit - Green cheese from Bulgaria.
• Dolce verde (literally "sweet green"), an Italian cheese. It is a type of Gorgonzola.
• A Frisian cheese made from low-fat milk flavoured with parsley. It has been immortalized in the Frisian shibboleth: "Bûter en brea en griene tsiis, hwa't dat net sizze kin is gjin oprjuchte Frys." meaning "Butter and bread and green cheese, who can't say that is no true Frisian."
• Green Thunder: A variety of cheddar with herbs and chives, sealed in green wax. It is produced by the Snowdonia Cheese Company. The colour is a pale greenish-yellow.
• Sage Derby cheese
• Schabziger (Swiss green cheese)
• Vermont sage cheese

There are many other cheeses which are wholly or partly green in colour due to the addition of herbs.

The veins of most so-called blue cheeses, such as gorgonzola, maytag, roquefort, or stilton are in fact green.