Halal Cheese and Butter

lets think about this for a second.

Rennet is a complex of enzymes in the stomach of the cow, lamb, goat etc..

the enzymes are: Lipase, Renin, Pepsin, Chymosin - being most important.

they usually extract the Rennet from the animal stomach, once the animal has been slaughtered - best type of rennet is usually from small calves - bc as Kawmi accurately pointed out - small calves are only milk fed and need the Chymosin to break down the milk they drink. Older cows would not have Chymosin because they eat grass.

Is Rennet unhalal because the animal was not prayed on before they slaughtered it?

Alternative sources of rennet url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rennet&action=edit&section=4]edit[/url Because of the limited availability of mammalian stomachs for rennet production, cheese makers have looked for other ways to coagulate the milk since at least Roman times. There are many sources of enzymes, ranging from plants, fungi, and microbial sources, that can substitute for animal rennet. Cheeses produced from any of these varieties of rennet are suitable for lacto-vegetarians to consume. Fermentation produced chymosin (FPC)(see below) is used more often in industrial cheesemaking in North America and Europe today because it is less expensive and of higher quality than animal rennet.^[1]


Vegetable rennet

url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rennet&action=edit&section=5]edit[/url Many plants have coagulating properties. Homer suggests in the Iliad and the Odyssey that the Greeks used an extract of fig juice to coagulate milk.^[2] Other examples include dried caper leaves ,^[3] nettles , thistles , mallow , and Ground Ivy (Creeping Charlie). Enzymes from thistle or cynara are used in some traditional cheese production in the Mediterranean . Phytic acid, derived from unfermented soybeans , or Fermentation-Produced Chymosin (FPC) may also be used.
Vegetable rennets are also suitable for vegetarians . Vegetable rennet might be used in the production of kosher and halal cheeses but nearly all kosher cheeses are produced with either microbial rennet or FPC.i]citation needed[/i Worldwide, there is no industrial production for vegetable rennet. Commercial so-called vegetable rennets usually contain rennet from the mold Mucor miehei - see microbial rennet below.

Microbial rennet

url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rennet&action=edit&section=6]edit[/url Some molds such as Rhizomucor miehei are able to produce proteolytic enzymes. These molds are produced in a fermenter and then specially concentrated and purified to avoid contamination with unpleasant byproducts of the mold growth. At the present state of scientific research, governmental food safety organizations such as the European Food Safety Authority deny QPS (Qualified Presumption of Safety) status to enzymes produced especially by these molds .
The flavor and taste of cheeses produced with microbial rennets tend towards some bitterness, especially after longer maturation periods.^[4] Cheeses produced this way are suitable for vegetarians , provided no animal-based alimentation was used during the production.


Fermentation-produced chymosin (FPC)[[



url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rennet&action=edit§ion=7]edit[/url]] Because of the above imperfections of microbial and animal rennets, many producers sought further replacements of rennet. With the development of genetic engineering, it became possible to extract rennet-producing genes from animal stomach and insert them into certain bacteria , fungi or yeasts to make them produce chymosin during fermentation. The genetically modified microorganism is killed after fermentation and chymosin isolated from the fermentation broth, so that the fermentation-produced chymosin (FPC) used by cheese producers does not contain any GM component or ingredient. FPC is identical with chymosin made by an animal, but is produced in a more efficient way. FPC products have been on the market since 1990 and have been considered in the last 20 years the ideal milk-clotting enzyme.^[5]
FPC was the first artificially produced enzyme to be registered and allowed by the US Food and Drug Administration . In 1999, about 60% of US hard cheese was made with FPC^[6] and it has up to 80% of the global market share for rennet.^[7]
By 2008, approximately 80% to 90% of commercially made cheeses in the US and Britain were made using FPC.^[1] Today, the most widely used Fermentation-Produced Chymosin (FPC) is produced either by the fungus Aspergillus niger and commercialized under the trademark CHY-MAX®^[8] by the Danish company Chr. Hansen, or produced by Kluyveromyces lactis and commercialized under the trademark MAXIREN®^[9] by the Dutch company DSM.
FPC is chymosin B, and is therefore more pure compared with animal rennet, which contains a multitude of proteins. FPC can deliver several benefits to the cheese producer compared with animal or microbial rennet, such as higher production yield, better curd texture and reduced bitterness.^[5]
Cheeses produced with FPC can be certified kosher^[10][11] and halal,^[11] and are suitable for vegetarians if there was no animal-based alimentation used during the chymosin production in the fermenter.

after reading this stuff

i stop eat cheese period

Enzymes im my stomach causes Bloating !

dunno if the pepsin and renin is not doing its job.

sometimes acid reflux