Brown’s Orange Cheddar – 250g

Did you know it takes 10 liters of milk to make one kilogram of cheddar cheese? This beloved cheese has its roots in an English town called, you guessed it, Cheddar. Queen Victoria got a giant wheel for her wedding gift. It weighed over 1000 pounds. (that’s 453 kg!) Think about that as you enjoy this cheese.

In 17th century England, milk in Cheddar came from cows whose grass diet was high in beta-carotene, which lent an orange pigment to their milk. That hue came to be a marker of high-quality cheese, which meant that producers of lower-quality, lower-fat cheese learned to game the system by adding pigment from saffron, marigold, and carrot juice.

Today, the color most often comes from annatto, a food coloring and condiment made from the seeds of the achiote tree, and/or paprika.