Port Salut - Manufactured Fromageries Bel Canada Inc's

[Cheese Head]

Visiting my Mum in Vancouver, bought this manufactured Port Salute Cheese for CDN5 from local Costco warehouse store made by global Bel Group's Canadian Division called Fromageries Bel Canada Inc.

Let warm to room temperature and opened last night. Minimal strong smell, thin crusty rind was strange open crunchy texture. Would not buy again.

Ingredients list beta-carotene as a colourant (contains fish!) & natamycin as a "preservative".

[Boofer]

What kind of beta-carotene do you get from fish?  That's a puzzler.

It looks pretty good. The rind was crunchy?

-Boofer-

[Cheese Head]

Just updated snaps, thought might be useful for others around the world.

Yep rind was dry and thin and almost foamy-crunchy open porous texture, like eating stale puffed wheat ball but on a smaller scale. If you click on picture #3 or 4 to open full size then zoom in you can almost see that the rind is porous.

[anutcanfly]

The paste looks good.  What was you're impression of it?

[justsocat]

Thank You so much John for all those pics You post. I don't know about others but for me it's very important. Most of the cheeses I can't get no matter how mush money I want to pay. Please don't quit doing that John!

[dthelmers]

What kind of beta-carotene do you get from fish?  That's a puzzler.

It looks pretty good. The rind was crunchy?

-Boofer-

Brine shrimp have beta-carotene

[Boofer]

Brine shrimp have beta-carotene

Yeah and I'll bet that flamingos do too, but I don't want either associated with my cheese. 

-Boofer-