Horizon Organic is happy to provide you with a variety of delicious cheeses. All of our cheeses, with the exception of Parmesan, start with pasteurized milk. Our Parmesan cheese is made from unpastuerized milk in order to preserve its flavor and characteristics. Quality control of raw milk, in addition to a ten-month or greater aging process, ensures the safety of our Parmesan cheese.
Parmesan cheese contains an animal-based ingredient called rennet.
Rennet , is an approved-organic ingredient that helps form the curds that turn into cheese. While it is not possible to achieve a true Parmesan flavor without using rennet, we are able to use organic-approved microbial enzymes, rather than rennet, in our other cheeses. Many variables in the cheese-making process can alter the taste, texture and nutritional values of cheese. American cheese is made from a mixture of cheeses, including Cheddar and Colby. The fat content in the hard and semi-soft cheeses primarily depends on the fat level of the milk used to produce the cheese and whether or not cream is added to the milk during cheese production.