How comes cheese has best before dates ???

Question

If cheese can be sat in a barn or such like for years, then how comes the minute you buy it , it'll go green and mouldy within days/weeks ????

Answer 1

Cheeses that are stored are usually covered with a thick wax or "skin" (like brie or camembert) that protect them from oxygen. Once air hits an unwrapped cheese, it forms amines which destroy the enzymes in it, causing it to go mouldy.

Answer 2

It's the best before date as in "this cheese will test best before..." You could still eat the cheese but it would taste like something else. The flavor changes from when they first put in the barn to when they take it out and it doesn't stop developing. Some cheese is supposed to have mold on it.

Answer 3

because it is a different kind of cheese,.....cheese is processed in many different ways to produce the variety you can buy.

Answer 4

processed a different way