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What organism ferments Stilton Cheese?

Updated: 11/11/2022
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Stilton cheese is not "fermented" as such. Like other blue-veined cheeses, such as Italian "Gorgonzola" and French "Roquefort", it gets its blue veins from the saprotrophic fungus Penicillium roqueforti. For more information on Stilton, see the related links.

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