Yes, you can freeze our cheese.
We recommend grating and freezing before the best before date, but if you freeze it as a block, it might be a bit crumblier when it’s time to eat. Ideally, cheese should be eaten within 3 months of freezing.
Freezer temperatures can vary, so check your freezer’s instructions and manufacturer’s guidelines before storing food.
Frozen grated cheese can be used straight from the freezer in cooking or defrosted in the fridge and used immediately after defrosting (within 24 hours).
For our block cheddar, defrost in the fridge and use it within 3 days.
You’ll find no nuts in any of our cheese! Our manufacturing and packing sites are all nut free.
All of our cheese is made with 100% cow’s milk to which we add starter culture, vegetarian rennet and salt, all of which are required to make cheese.
Yes, our cheese is suitable for a Halal diet.
All of the ingredients we use to make our cheese are gluten free, which means our cheese is too.
Lactose is the naturally occurring sugar found in animal milks.
Lactose intolerance is a digestive problem which prevents the body from digesting lactose properly. It occurs when the body does not produce enough lactase, the enzyme required to break down lactose in the gut. Consuming lactose with an intolerance causes stomach discomfort, diarrhoea and bloating.
All aged hard cheeses, like cheddar, are naturally low in lactose. Enzymes added to milk as part of the cheesemaking process naturally feed on the lactose sugars in the milk developing the flavour of the cheese until the lactose sugar is all naturally used up.
To make every batch of our Lactose Free cheddar, we test it using an accredited method and make sure the level of lactose doesn’t surpass 0.01%.
There is a very small amount of yeast present in the flavourings used in the block, sliced and grated products. Flavourings are ingredients which are added in very small quantities – in this case, the flavourings containing yeast amount to less than 1% of the recipe. The yeast is present in very small amounts within the flavouring ingredients, so the level in the finished product is extremely small.
- We recommend grating your block plant based before freezing. To get the best taste, once frozen it should be used in cooked dishes. Our grated can be frozen. To get the best results, it should then be used in cooked dishes. We don’t recommend freezing our slices. To get the best results, please use straight from the fridge.
You can take our cheese straight from the freezer and use it in your cooking, such as in a cheese sauce or as a topping on a pasta bake. If you choose to defrost it first, we suggest using it within 24 hours of putting it in the fridge.
For a frozen block of cheese, you should defrost in the fridge, then use as you would normally. Once defrosted, it is best used within 3 days.
Food shouldn’t be refrozen after defrosting, so only defrost what you need.
We’re working hard to make our packaging fully recyclable. In the meantime, please recycle through TerraCycle® while we actively work to reduce the amount of packaging we use and increase the proportion of recycled content in our current packaging. Find out more.
- <p>White crystals, or calcium lactate, are a natural part of the cheesemaking process often found on cheese which has aged for longer (like our Extra Mature and Strongest strengths). They just mean your cheese is more flavoursome and crunchier than without them.</p>
Yes, all the ingredients we use are suitable for vegetarians.
Our cheese is made with 100% cow’s milk, starter culture, vegetarian rennet and salt.
Milk is pasteurised, and the starter culture is added. This is a blend of bacteria, specially developed to start the process of transforming milk into cheese. The starter cultures cause the milk to ferment which produces lactic acid, increasing the acidity.
After this, a vegetarian enzyme is added to coagulate the milk, forming curds and whey. The curds are then chopped into smaller pieces, the whey is separated from the curds and salt is added to the chopped curds. The salted curds are pressed and formed into blocks and packed.
The blocks of cheese are matured for the required length of time to achieve the desired flavour and texture which develop over time during maturation.
All of the milk used to make our delicious cheese is 100% British, from dedicated farms in the West Country.
Yes, all our cheese is made with pasteurised milk.
We use several materials in our packaging, each with their own recyclability regulations.
The below packs are suitable to go into recycling bins if your council accepts cheese wrappers, or alternatively can go into in store collection points.- Cathedral City 180g Grated bags
- Cathedral City Nibbles outer bags
- Cathedral City Minis nets (please leave the tag attached as it is also suitable for recycling).
Cathedral City Sliced trays should be placed into plastic recycling with other rigid plastic packs.
All other Cathedral City films should be put in General Waste.Our target remains to deliver 100% recyclable packaging. We are currently at 85%, however some of our cheese wrappers are difficult to find a recyclable solution for.
We continue to work on this and will launch this to market as soon as we have found a material that maintains our food safety and quality.
We are committed to finding recyclable solutions for our Block packaging, however any packaging materials we use for our products need to go through a robust testing process to ensure they maintain the upmost safety and quality.
This is a key area for our business, and our R&D team are still working hard on making any remaining non-recyclable packaging recyclable and they continue to investigate alternative materials to do so.
We use 80% recycled content in the base tray of our Sliced and Snacking packs.
We are working on introducing recycled content into more of our packaging formats, however we are restricted given we must comply with the food safety rules in the UK and there are currently very limited materials that are accredited as food safe.
The zip is made from a recyclable material and can be taken back to in store flexible recycling points but needs to be separated from the rest of the pack.
We would recommend placing the zip inside some of the carrier bags you are taking back to store to ensure it goes through the recycling process. For Grated packs, please leave the pack and zip together for recycling.
Using plastic packaging enables us to ensure the food safety and quality of our products. We continue to investigate alternatives, however we need to ensure all safety measures are matched.
Cathedral City packaging is a mixed plastic film for the majority of our products. This is used to ensure the safety and quality of our products.
- Cathedral City 180g Grated products use a PE film that can be recycled in front of store collection points.
- Cathedral City Nibbles outer bags use a PE film that can be recycled in front of store collection points.
- Cathedral City Minis nets and tags are made from PE and can be recycled in front of store collection points. Please leave the net and tag attached.
