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Cheese from Switzerland: allergens and what’s inside

Of 165 packs of cheese from Switzerland whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 99% list milk. Most list milk and salt.

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for a milk allergy profile, on 99% of these packs

Which allergens are in cheese from Switzerland?

Of 165 packs of cheese from Switzerland whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 99% list milk. Another 1% carry a “may contain” line for egg. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Milk allergyNot for you99% list milk.
Egg allergyHeads up1% carry a “may contain” line for egg.

Not for you when most of these packs list the allergen, Heads up when fewer do or only a “may contain” line names it. In the app, a profile gets Not for you on a pack that lists the allergen and Heads up on one whose “may contain” line names it: it reads the pack in your hand, not these counts.

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What is cheese from Switzerland usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of cheese from Switzerland list, with the share of packs that list each: milk (92%), salt (81%), rennet (41%) and lactic ferments (36%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: Switzerland 593 · France 261 · Germany 106 · Belgium 27.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows what these packs list, not every recipe for cheese from Switzerland.

Calories and nutrients

Not shown here. Open Food Facts records calories and nutrients per 100 g or per 100 ml without saying which, so a figure for all these packs together could mislead. The pack you buy prints its own, and that is the figure to log.

What kind of food is cheese from Switzerland?

In the Open Food Facts categories, cheese from Switzerland is a kind of cheese.

What else is cheese from Switzerland called?

In EnglishSwiss Cheese
French
Fromages de Suisse, Fromages suisses
German
Schweizer Käse
Spanish
Quesos de Suiza, Queso Suizo
Italian
Formaggi svizzeri
Dutch
Zwitserse kazen
Portuguese
Queijos da Suíça
Polish
Sery szwajcarskie, Sery ze Szwajcarii

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Sources

Every share is counted over the packs whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full. A pack lists an allergen when Open Food Facts’ allergen field names it, or when one of its ingredients stands for it by the same two-of-three checks as the ingredient dictionary (tahini is sesame, a cheese is milk). A “may contain” line counts only for an allergen the pack does not list.

  1. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
  2. Open Food Facts: categories and ingredients taxonomies (names, kinds, allergens), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: Cheese from Switzerland

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