Many people are beginning to realize that Parmesan cheese is not suitable for vegetarians and are not satisfied with the new knowledge.
Sorry if this is the first time you’ve heard of it, but if you’re a vegetarian and eat parmesan anyway, you’ve unknowingly been consuming meat products all your life.
Obviously, cheese isn’t vegan, so vegans didn’t really care, right?
Anyway, Parmesan – or Parmigiano Reggiano – is a special hard cheese that can only be called so if it comes from a very specific place in Italy.
A little pricey if you don’t mind consuming meat products, but it’s absolutely lovely.
However, if you are a vegetarian, it contains some things that can turn your stomach.
Regardless, it definitely turned something’s stomach upside down.
That’s because the clotting process in which it’s made uses an enzyme called chymosin for catchy.
Chymosin is introduced into the product using something called rennet.
This is where plant-based people’s issues are also introduced.
If you’re of a squeamish temperament, you might want to skip how they get rennet.
After the calves are slaughtered and the stomachs are removed and dried, the stomachs are cut into cubes and added to the cheese mixture before becoming cheese.
Did I mention stomach flips or should I stir?
The problem for those who love parmesan but have put it off is that this step in the process is so important that anything without milk, salt and veal rennet is parmesan. I can’t even name it.
This is not the only cheese that uses this product.
Grana Padano, a popular Parmesan substitute, also used veal rennet, as did Gorgonzola.
Plus many other favorites like Gruyère, Manchego, Pecorino Romano, Camembert, Emmental, Vacherin, Boucheron and many others.
Bad news, veggie cheese fans.
Cheese sold within the EU as Parmesan cheese, if so named, is produced in the regions of Parma, Reggio Emilia or Bologna and is produced in the specific manner described herein. I have to.
Anyway, this is news for some people.
As one person said:
“I have to go full vegan at this point.”
Another said:
“Rennet is obtained by slaughtering animals.
“These cheeses are Gorgonzola, Gruyère, Manchego, Parmesan, Pecorino Romano, etc.”
A third simply wrote, “Isn’t Parmesan cheese vegetarian?!”
If you’re a vegetarian, I’m so sorry, but it’s time to stuff the chicken parm.
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