Brunost also known as mysost (Norwegian), mesost (Swedish), meesjuusto (Finnish), mysuostur (Icelandic), myseost (Danish), Braunkäse (German).
The Norwegian and German names mean brown cheese while others translated simply mean ‘whey cheese’. The most commonly exported varieties of Brunost are Geitost which is made with a mixture of goats and cow's milk, Ekte Geitost made with goat’s milk only, and Gudbrandsdalsost.
Brunost is a sweet, dense caramelized brown Scandinavian whey cheese produced under different names in various countries. The cheese gets its brown colour and fudge like texture from the slow simmering process which allows the milk sugars to caramelize. A low-fat variant is made by increasing the proportion of whey to milk and cream.
Brunost is served thinly sliced on rye toast or crisp bread. It is considered healthy because of its high content of iron, calcium and B vitamins.
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466 kcal per 100 gr.
9.65 gr. per 100 gr.
27 gr. per 100 gr.
42.65 gr. per 100 gr.
19.16 gr. per 100 gr.
94 mg. per 100 gr.
13.44 gr. per 100 gr.
360 - 400 mg. ( – 57% )*
1409 mg. ( + 1501% )*
70 mg. ( + 100% )*
600 mg. ( – 26% )*
444 mg. ( – 11% )*
0.52 mg. ( – 48% )*
1.14 mg. ( – 72% )*
334 mcg. ( + 16% )*
315 mcg. ( + 688% )*
1.382 mg. ( + 361% )*
0.813 mg. per 100 gr.
5 mcg. ( – 74% )*
2.42 mcg. ( + 73% )*
*(the difference from the average value)
4,8 - Individual visits per month (average)
100 - All individual visits
12 09 2016 - Date of publication of this article
22 01 2017 - Date of last edit
