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To: CarrotAndStick; steve8714

I think the distinction, for Indians, is that yogurt and paneer are first stages of fermentation, without the bacterial decomposition that happens in “ripened” cheeses. Probably sour cream, ricotta and cottage cheese would be ok too.


30 posted on 02/20/2008 11:19:37 AM PST by From many - one.
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To: From many - one.
Most kinds of cheese are commonly available in Indian markets. Even fermented ones. I guess the persons you referred to probably have an allergy to cheese.

Anyway, I found this:

100% Vegetarian Cheese made from microbial rennet

...which stands out against this, from WiKi:

Rennet is an enzyme mixture traditionally obtained from the stomach lining of young cattle, but now also laboratory produced. Vegetarian alternatives to rennet are available; most are produced by fermentation of the fungus Mucor miehei, but others have been extracted from various species of the Cynara thistle family.

Natural calf rennet is extracted from the inner mucosa of the fourth stomach chamber (the abomasum) of young calves. These stomachs are a by-product of veal production. If rennet is extracted from older calves (grass-fed or grain-fed) the rennet contains less or no chymosin but a high level of pepsin and can only be used for special types of milk and cheeses. As each ruminant produces a special kind of rennet to digest the milk of its own mother, there are milk-specific rennets available, such as kid-goat rennet especially for goat's milk and lamb-rennet for sheep-milk. Rennet or digestion enzymes from other animals, like swine-pepsin, are not used in cheese production.

33 posted on 02/20/2008 11:44:59 AM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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