Cheese in the categorization of these cheeses is their age. Fresh cheeses without additional preservatives can spoil in a matter of days. Content (double cream, goat, ewe and water buffalo) Some cheeses are categorized by the source of the milk used to produce them or by the added fat content of the milk from which they are produced. While most of the world's commercially available cheese is made from cows' milk, many parts of the world also produce cheese from goats and sheep. Some cheeses are described by their fat content. Double cream cheeses are soft cheeses of cows' milk enriched
Goat cheese Goat cheese Goat cheese, goats' cheese, or chèvre ( or ; from the French word for "goat"), is cheese made from goat's milk. Cow's milk and goat's milk have similar overall fat contents. However, the higher proportion of medium-chain fatty acids such as caproic, caprylic and capric acid in goat's milk contributes to the characteristic tart flavor of goat's milk cheese. (These fatty acids take their name from the Latin for goat, "capra".) Goat cheese has been made for thousands of years and was probably one of the earliest made dairy products. In the most simple form, goat cheese is