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Cheddar cheese

Also called cheddar

Cheddar is a firm cheese made with milk and table salt. Cooks use it as a dairy ingredient.

  • Dairy
  • Allergen: milk

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Dairy & eggs
Texture
Firm
Cooked most in
The Americas
Top country
United States
Cheddar cheese, cut

Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use Cheddar cheese

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Firm

Nutrition

What 100 g of Cheddar cheese holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 39%Fat 57%Carbohydrate 4%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of Cheddar cheese
Energy408 kcal · 1,710 kJ
Protein23 g
Fat34 g
of which saturated19 g
Carbohydrate2.4 g
of which sugars0.33 g
Fibre0 g
Sodium654 mg
Cholesterol100 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of Cheddar cheese: minerals and vitamins
Potassium77 mg
Calcium707 mg
Iron0.16 mg
Magnesium27 mg
Zinc3.7 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)316 µg
Folate21 µg
Vitamin B121.1 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 173414, 328637), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where Cheddar cheese is cooked

3 dishes in the catalogue use Cheddar cheese. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list Cheddar cheese among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with Cheddar cheese

3 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Señor Croque

    United States

  • Carthay Signature Fried Biscuits

    United States

  • Big Mac Bao

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include Cheddar cheese.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: Cheddar cheese in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Contains: milk
Animal origin
From: dairy

Family

Related forms

A kind of
cheese

Around the world

What Cheddar cheese is called

Names in 59 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    queso Cheddar · Cheddar · West Country Farmhouse Cheddar

  • French

    cheddar · Cheddar cheese · fromage Cheddar

  • Italian

    cheddar · formaggio cheddar

  • Portuguese

    cheddar

  • German

    Cheddar · Cheddarkäse

  • Dutch

    cheddar · Cheddar (kaas)

  • Greek

    Τσένταρ

  • Turkish

    Cheddar

  • Russian

    Чеддер · Чеддар

  • Polish

    Cheddar

  • Arabic

    جبنة تشيدر · تشيدر · التشيدر · جبن تشدر

  • Persian

    پنیر چدار

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  • Afrikaans

    Cheddarkaas

  • Armenian

    Չեդեր

  • Asturian

    Quesu cheddar

  • Basque

    Cheddar gazta

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    чэдар

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Cheddar

  • Bulgarian

    Чедър

  • Cantonese

    車打芝士

  • Catalan

    Cheddar · Formatge Cheddar

  • Chinese

    車打芝士 · 切達乾酪 · 切達起司 · 切達乳酪

  • Chuvash

    Чеддер (чăкăт)

  • Czech

    čedar · Cheddar

  • Danish

    Cheddarost · Cheddar · Cheddar ost

  • Egyptian Arabic

    جبنه شيدر Cheddar Cheese

  • Esperanto

    Ĉedder

  • Estonian

    Cheddari juust

  • Finnish

    cheddar

  • Galician

    Cheddar · Queixo Cheddar

  • Georgian

    ჩედერი

  • Hebrew

    צ'דר · גבינת צ'דר

  • Hungarian

    cheddar

  • Icelandic

    Cheddar-ostur

  • Indonesian

    Keju Cheddar · Cheddar

  • Irish

    céadar

  • Japanese

    チェダー・チーズ · チェダーチーズ · チェダー

  • Javanese

    Kèju cheddar

  • Kannada

    ಚೆಡರ್ ಚೀಸ್

  • Korean

    체다 치즈 · 체더 치즈

  • Latin

    Caseus Cheddarensis

  • Latvian

    Čedars

  • Lithuanian

    Čederis

  • Macedonian

    Чедар

  • Malay

    Keju Cheddar

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    cheddarost

  • Piedmontese

    Cheddar

  • Serbian

    Čedar sir

  • Simplified Chinese

    切达干酪

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    切达干酪

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    切达干酪

  • Slovak

    Čedar

  • Slovenian

    čedar · cheddar

  • Sundanese

    Kéju Cédar

  • Swedish

    Cheddar · Cheddarosten · Cheddarost

  • Swiss High German

    Cheddar

  • Telugu

    cheddar · Cheddar cheese

  • Thai

    เชดดาร์ชีส

  • Traditional Chinese

    切達乾酪

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    車打芝士

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    切達起司

  • Ukrainian

    Чеддер

  • Uzbek

    Cheddar pishloq

  • Vietnamese

    Pho mát Cheddar

  • Waray

    Cheddar (keso)

  • Welsh

    Caws Cheddar

  • Wu Chinese

    切达干酪

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q217525

Photos

Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons