Winter 2026The independent journal of cheese
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Rules & Health

Dietary and Religious Rules

Choosing cheese to meet religious, dietary or medical needs starts with knowing which questions to ask. This hub brings together guides to kosher and halal cheese, vegetarian choices and rennet, and gluten, helping you find the right explanation before looking more closely at a product.

A selection of cheeses at a counter
Adding coagulant to milk in a cheese vat
Rules & Health

Kosher Cheese Explained

Milk fills the vat.

Fresh curds being cut in a dairy vat
Rules & Health

Halal Cheese Explained

The knife hovers over the cheese.

Freshly cut curd and whey in a cheesemaking vat
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Vegetarian Cheese and Rennet Explained

You pick up a wedge of cheese.

Bread crumbs on a knife can reach cheese
Rules & Health

Is Cheese Gluten Free?

You cut the bread, reach for the cheese and pause, the same knife still in your hand.