20 things you didn't know about cheese

Cheese is celebrated in a big way this month. 1-7 June is British Cheese Week, which celebrates the amazing produce the UK has on offer, whilst 4 June marks National Cheese Day in the United States.
Here are some little-known fromage facts for you to digest about the food that author Clifton Fadiman described as “milk’s leap toward immortality.” Ain't that the truth.
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It's all about annatto

Cheese assumes only one-tenth the volume of milk from which it's made and gets its orange – or a more pronounced yellow – colour from the colouring agent annatto, derived from the seeds of the achiote tree.