Welcome to the Cheese Crystal Knowledge Base
Check out some cool info below!

Cheese Crystal Types

Click the image below to check out an interactive chart


Interactive flow chart! Yeah!

Cheese Crystal Infographic

Click the image below to check out "The Wonderful World of Cheese Crystals"


Downloadable pdf for displaying or printing

Cheese Crystal Timeline

Click the image below to check out the history of cheese crystals"


Interactive time-line! Yeah!

Cheese Chemistry via Crystals

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Downloadable pdf for displaying or printing

Cheese Crystal Gallery

Click the image below to check out some cheese crystal images


Username and password are "uvm" (no quotes)

Cheese Crystal Publications

Click the links below to read some publications from the Kindstedt Lab

Crystal fingerprinting: elucidating the crystals of Cheddar, Parmigiano-Reggiano, Gouda, and soft washed-rind cheeses using powder x-ray diffractometry
Powder X-ray diffraction can differentiate between enantiomeric variants of calcium lactate pentahydrate crystal in cheese
Minerals In Food: Crystal Structures of Ikaite and Struvite From Bacterial Smears On Washed-Rind Cheese
Crystallization and demineralization phenomena in stabilized white mold cheese
Crystallization and demineralization phenomena in washed-rind cheese
More coming soon!