Port-Salut
Cheese
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Port-Salut is a French semi-soft, washed-rind cow's-milk cheese — a small flat round with a smooth, edible bright-orange rind and a pale, supple, ivory paste. It is mild, creamy and faintly tangy, far gentler than its glowing rind suggests, and is an easy-eating table, sandwich and snacking cheese.
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Supple, mild, clean cut faceStray mould, ammonia that won't clear
Ripe roundEveryday bestA smell stronger than its taste is normal. Made from pasteurised milk and neither mould-ripened nor blue, so NHS pregnancy advice lists cheese like it as safe.
The cut faceIvory to cream, supple, a touch softer as it ripens
Smell once unwrappedStronger than it tastes: the smell grows as it keeps