Gäsene Mejeri Hushållsost, 0.972 kg (sold by weight)

Weight: 2.28 lb

A pale, waxed-looking wheel just under a kilo, with the distinctive fluted rim of a traditionally moulded Swedish cheese. Hushållsost — literally household cheese — is one of Sweden's most everyday cheeses: mild, buttery, slightly acidic, semi-hard, with small irregular holes. Sliced thin on crispbread for breakfast, which is how it is eaten in Sweden.

The calcium figure is exceptional: 770 mg per 100 g — 96% of the daily reference intake. That is an unusually high calcium figure for any cheese, and it is declared right on the Swedish label with its own %DRI line. Combined with 24 g of protein per 100 g and zero carbohydrate, this is nutritionally the strongest cheese on the shelf.

Made by a small independent dairy at Ljung in Västergötland, from Swedish milk.

Ingredients

Pasteurized Swedish milk, starter culture, rennet, calcium chloride, salt, preservative E251. (SV: Pastöriserad svensk mjölk, syrningskultur, löpe, kalciumklorid, salt, konserveringsmedel E251.)

Allergens

🚨 CONTAINS: MILK. Made with pasteurized milk and animal rennet.

🇸🇪 Sweden.

Nutrition

Per 100 g: 1400 kJ / 330 kcal, 26 g fat (17 g saturates), 0 g carbohydrate of which 0 g sugars, 24 g protein, 1.6 g salt, and 770 mg calcium — 96% of the daily reference intake.

Keep refrigerated at or below +10 °C. Zero carbohydrate and 24 g of protein per 100 g, with a calcium figure the Swedish label declares against its own %DRI line. Milk origin: Sweden.