granular cheese

English

Noun

granular cheese (countable and uncountable, plural granular cheeses)

1. A type of rennet cheese or cheese produced under employment of a similar clotting enzyme characterized by being firm owing the curds not only having been comminuted to a large degree but having been stirred with the whey before being put to ripen for a longer time.

   Synonym: stirred curd cheese

Further reading

• 21 CFR § 133.144 – Granular and stirred curd cheese.