Ooooh baby. Hard for me to say, as someone who is mostly vegan, whose favorite thing in the world is cheese…. that we are reviewing studies that talk about certain cheeses being good for you. So I asking: Does Cheese have Probiotics? Is it anti-inflammatory?
Well, as a former newswoman, I can only report what people and companies and studies are saying.
Women.Girls Talking Smack have this to say:
…..another study showed that eating dairy products like cheese help to increase the gut’s absorption of beneficial probiotics like Propionibacterium freudenreichii, by lowering the stress imposed on those helpful little guys as they make their way through the digestive tract. This, in turn, can increase the anti-inflammatory properties of both probiotic supplements and fermented foods.
Culture Cheese Magazine talks to cheese mongers and says:
In raw (unpasteurized) milk cheeses, the natural bacteria from the environment and in the milk stay alive while the cheese ferments. So when you eat it, you introduce live bacteria, all those good probiotics, into your body and they help you stay healthy.
A short list of probiotic-rich cheeses includes aged, traditional cheddars, Gouda, and Alpine cheeses like Gruyère.
The Alternative Daily says another study showed that eating dairy products like cheese help to increase the gut’s absorption of beneficial probiotics like Propionibacterium freudenreichii, by lowering the stress imposed on those helpful little guys as they make their way through the digestive tract. This, in turn, can increase the anti-inflammatory properties of both probiotic supplements and fermented foods.
We can go back to 2018 and Insider who says lactose intolerant people need to know about parmesan cheese:
Made from milk with lactose, the lactose in the dairy becomes lactic acid as the wheel of cheese matures, meaning that any lactose left by the time the cheese has aged is negligent if at all existent. Can you imagine that, according to the manufacturer, it enriches the microbial communities residing in the human gastrointestinal tract.
So that’s one more thing I didn’t know about 
Parmesan/Parmesan Reggiano and lactose intolerant people. I always felt that you get more bang for the buck with a hard cheese, more flavor…. and I should have realized that if it’s not creamy it might be ok, and tolerable for people who are lactose intolerant. Shazam!
I can go on and on. But if I were sitting in your shoes, I would list my top favorite cheeses and then go online to see what the best cheeses might be for you.
I will say that in my plant based word, both Kite Hill and Myokos are rocking the plant based ‘cheese’ world!
Happy Healthy Eating,
