cheese with wax - is it okay?

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Hi folks

Is it okay to eat cheese with a wax casing? Edam, Gouda and the likes???

I have my favourite apple smoked cheese here, but it has a red wax on it... I am so starving I am tempted, but thought I'd ask you guys?

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Yep, it's a hard cheese, go for it :)
It's the soft cheeses you gotta be weary of, so brie, cambembert etc.
 
Avoid both pasteurised and unpasteurised soft cheeses which usually have a surface mould or rind such as Brie, Camembert and Danish Blue. Also avoid cheeses coated in wax such as Gouda, Post Salut.

Found this online - bummer! It looks like my lunch is going to be a a plain loaf of bread now :(
 
Hi Hon, found this which is really useful;

Cheeses which are SAFE to eat in pregnancy

Hard cheeses:
austrian smoked, Babybel, caerphilly, cheddar, cheshire, derby, double gloucester, edam, emmental, english goat's cheddar, feta (if bought in the UK), gouda, gruyere, halloumi, havarti, jarlsberg, lancashire, mozzarella, orkney, paneer, parmesan, pecorino (hard), provolone, red leicester.

Soft and processed cheeses:
Boursin, cottage cheese, cheese spread, cream cheese, mascarpone, philadelphia, quark, ricotta.

Yoghurts, fromage frais, soured cream and creme fraiche -- any variety, including natural, flavoured and biologically active -- are all safe to eat.

Cheeses to AVOID in pregnancy

Mould-ripened soft cheeses:
brie, blue brie, cambozola, camembert, chaumes, pont L'eveque, prince jean, tallegio. vacherin-fribourgeois, weichkaese.

Blue-veined cheeses:
bavarian blue, bergader, bleu d'Auvergne, blue shropshire, cabrales, Danish blue, dolcelatte, doppelrhamstuge, eldel pilz, gorgonzola, manchego, romano, roncal, roquefort, stilton, tommes, wensleydale (blue).

Soft unpasteurised goat and sheep's cheeses:
chabichou, pyramide, torta del cesar.
 
Mmmm I love cheese too... The worst thing is I have a cheese factory about 2 miles from my house, so I get really good cheese in big blocks for half the supermarket price! Really, really bad for the waistline!!!! Oh, and everyone always comes to stay with the pretence of visiting us, when in fact all they want to do is stock up on cheese!!!
 
Wax coating isn't a problem that I know of, and most hard cheeses are fine. It's blue cheese, ones with rinds (rather than wax) and ones which aren't pasteurised I think you need to avoid.
 
There's absolutely no problem in eating wax covered cheese. No way it could possibly hurt you. Its just mould ripened cheeses you need to be most careful of.
 

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