1. Gouda cheese
It is known that Netherlands started to make cheese since about the ninth century. Because of the geographical benefit, and outstanding transport ability, Netherlands cheese was able to be exported. Especially, Gouda Cheese produced in Gouda and Edam Cheese produced in Edam harbor made Netherlands the world's largest cheese exporting nation.
Gouda Cheese is mostly seen and typical Dutch cheese, and it constitutes 50% of Netherlands cheese industries. The cheese that consists of 48% of oil is semi-hard cheese and has soft taste.The more time passes, the better it tastes.
2. Edam cheese
Famous for red packing, Edam cheese has an very important role next to Gouda cheese in Netherlands cheese industries. As it constitutes as many as 27% of the quantities of Netherlands cheese industries, Gouda and Edam cheese take up almost 80% of quantities of exported cheese in Netherlands.
One cheese weighs 1.7kg. The red color of Edam cheese is come from paraffin coating.
3. Maasdammer Cheese
When we recall cheese, the most coming up cheese - that has holes - is Maasfammer Cheese. It constitutes 15% of the quantities of Netherlands cheese industries. The reason it has holes is when it aged, bacterias emit the gas, it affects tastes of cheese. It tastes like nuts slightly.
4. Boerenkaas cheese
Boerenkaas is made up of unpasteurized milk, in other words, milk which is not pasteurized at Low-Temperature. There is a law it has to be made up of milk that was produced by farmer's own cows.
5. Goat's Cheese
Goat's Cheese matures earlier than cheese which is made up of cow milk. It is white, and tastes bite but melts softly.
6. Friesian Clove cheese
Frisian clove cheese which is made up of low-fat milk, cumin(cumin is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native from the east Mediterranean to India. Its seeds are used in the cuisines of many different cultures, in both whole and ground form.) and clove is hard cheese. The feature of this cheese is long mature period.
7. Dutch Blue Cheese
Originally, blue cheese is a not traditional dutch cheese. But they grafted gouda cheese onto blue cheese and made more delicious blue cheese. It tastes sweet and stronger in flavor and less salty than Roquefort Cheese, that is blue cheese of France.
