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Comté

Hard alpine cow's milk cheese, nutty and aged, grated or eaten in slices.

France Cheese & dairy Vegetarian

Your guide, Chef Baku
Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

Made in Jura village fruitières, cooperatives that pooled milk from the thirteenth century because one farm could not fill a wheel.

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What is Comté?

Comté is a cheese & dairy from France: hard alpine cow’s milk cheese, nutty and aged, grated or eaten in slices. Made in Jura village fruitières, cooperatives that pooled milk from the thirteenth century because one farm could not fill a wheel.

Made with

cheesemilk

Cooked

fermented

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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