In Russia there is no high-quality "Russian" cheese. To such disappointing conclusions experts of the Rockiness came. However, palm oil in cheese, contrary to rumors, is also almost none.
The most popular cheese in Russia does not meet the quality standards. Experts checked 30 samples with the name "Russian" on 77 parameters and found out that manufacturers frankly deceive consumers and violate technology.
As the historian of Russian cuisine Pavel Syutkin said, the recipe for "Russian" cheese was invented in the early 1960s in the USSR. He was noticeably different from the others: "The soft plastic consistency is combined in it with a pleasant cheese, slightly sour taste. But sourness has a different shade, rather than, say, in Kostroma or Soviet cheese, and is more pronounced, - the expert points out.. - This is the combination that distinguishes "Russian" cheese in a number of other ".
However, modern consumers can not be convinced of these words. As shown by the studies of the Rocky, no manufacturer can withstand the parameters responsible for the "maturity" of the cheese, that is, for the degree of acidity. Pamper cheesemakers and fat content of the product: instead of 50% doing less. This, of course, reduces the cost of cheese, but also negatively affects the taste.
However, the discrepancy between the actual composition of the inscription on the label and even the declared GOST (although only seven manufacturers tried to follow it) does not mean that this cheese is dangerous for consumers.
Only in four samples - "Appetizing Round Year", "Pride of the House", "Just Cheese" and "Rostagroexport" - found an excess of the norm for the tetracycline group of antibiotics. In some samples of other brands there are traces of antibiotics, but in a very small dosage.
The content of palm oil, so frightening for Russians, was found only in 6% of the samples examined (trademarks "Appetizing all year round" and "Magnet"), molds or pathogenic bacteria - generally nowhere.
In other words, "Russian" cheese in Russia is quite edible, only unpleasant and not "Russian".
Recall that now Roskachestvo checks bread.