BERLIN - The mystery of Swiss cheese and its disappearing holes has been solved: The milk's too clean. A Swiss agricultural institute discovered that tiny pieces of hay dust are responsible for the ...

Move over, low-fat fads! Swiss cheese offers a rare combination of low sodium, high calcium, and unique peptides that naturally support cardiovascular health.

The two most famous cheeses from Switzerland are Gruyère and Emmentaler, but it's the latter that has the distinctive holes Americans associate with Swiss cheese. Emmentaler has been made for ...

“If the cheese has holes, then that’s a problem.” So says Swiss cheesemaker Dominique Yersin as he pats one of his giant wheels of cheese, each one weighing more than 50 pounds. In America, most of us ...

Switzerland is a small country that is not known for too many things. It’s got its cheese, its banks, its mountains, its neutrality, its watches, its pocketknives and its chocolate. If any of those is ...

There are thousands of kinds of cheese, each with its own color, shape, nutritional value, flavor and texture. Since cheese is made from milk, cheese types tend to vary based on the source of milk.