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Goat cheese

Goat cheese is cheese made from goat’s milk and used fresh, aged, or incorporated into savory and sweet dishes.

Goat cheese — illustrative ingredient image

About Goat cheese

Goat cheese is cheese made from goat’s milk through coagulation, draining, and often salting, with ageing varying by product. It ranges from a soft, moist, spreadable cheese to a firm, crumbly, or hard cheese. Flavour can be tangy, lactic, earthy, or distinctly savoury, while the rind, colour, moisture, and aroma depend on cultures, ageing, and production method.

Fresh goat cheese is spread on bread or used in salads, fillings, sauces, and savoury dishes. Firmer aged versions may be sliced, crumbled, grated, baked, or paired with sweet and savoury foods. The name covers many forms, including unripened logs, soft-ripened cheeses, pressed cheeses, and aged wheels.

It may be sold as a fresh log, soft-ripened cheese, pressed cheese, or aged wheel. Serving it fresh preserves a moist, spreadable texture; slicing, crumbling, grating, baking, or other preparation changes firmness, surface texture, and melting or browning behaviour, which are not uniform across products.

Ingredient type
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Where goat cheese appears

2 linked foods

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Ingredient connections awaiting review · Coverage is still growing, including packaged snacks.

Name examples awaiting language review. Confirm the specific food or product.

Local names for goat cheese

Names and romanised forms to recognise on menus and labels.

English

Goat cheese

English

Cheese, goat, firm

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English

Cheese, goat, hard type

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English

Cheese, goat, semisoft type

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English

Cheese, goat, soft

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English

Cheese, goat, soft type

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English

Light cheese buche from goat's milk

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Goat cheese nutrition & diet

Goat cheese nutritional value

Reference: Cheese, goat, soft

Per 100 g of the edible portion of the stated reference food.

Calories
285.4kcal
Protein
21.2g
Carbs
0.9g
Fat
21.7g

Reference example for the named food and preparation, per 100 g edible portion. This is not a universal value for every recipe or brand; packaged products should be compared with their own label. © Food Standards Australia New Zealand. AFCD Release 3, food F002463. Available carbohydrate excludes sugar alcohols; energy converted from kJ to kcal (÷4.184). Australian data may not be appropriate for use in other countries. There are limitations associated with food composition databases. Food composition data used in the database or databases may represent an average of the nutrient content of a particular sample of foods and ingredients, determined at a particular time. The nutrient composition of foods and ingredients can vary substantially between batches and brands because of a number of factors, including changes in season, processing practices and ingredient source, and methods of calculation. Data licensed under the FSANZ Data User Licence Agreement, based on CC BY-SA 3.0 AU: https://www.foodstandards.gov.au/science-data/monitoringnutrients/afcd/datauserlicenceagreement.

Portions & preparation

Specify fresh, soft, semi-aged, aged, crumbled, spreadable, or processed goat cheese, since moisture and formulation differ. Use the edible cheese portion separately from rind, oil, fruit, crackers, sauces, or dishes containing it.

Compare the right form: Match references to cheese made from goat’s milk, with age, moisture, processing, rind, and edible portion specified.

Diet considerations

Goat cheese is animal-derived dairy made from goat’s milk. Compatibility changes with cultures, rennet, additives, coatings, flavorings, and accompanying foods; preparations may include cereal crackers, meat, egg, or gelatin-containing products. Do not infer a universal dietary classification from the milk source or from the cheese name alone.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Typically incompatible
  • Vegetarian
    Depends on the version
  • Pescatarian
    Depends on the version
  • Keto
    Depends on the version
  • Paleo
    Typically incompatible
  • Low-carb
    Depends on the version
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Not established
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Typically incompatible
The ingredient profile identifies an animal-derived food or derivative.
Vegetarian · Depends on the version
Check the coagulant or rennet source: animal rennet and vegetarian alternatives are both relevant to this category.
Pescatarian · Depends on the version
Check the coagulant or rennet source: animal rennet and vegetarian alternatives are both relevant to this category.
Keto · Depends on the version
Compatibility depends on the portion and preparation. A sourced carbohydrate amount for a defined serving is not available.
Paleo · Typically incompatible
This profile falls outside the conventional paleo pattern used here (grains and pseudograins, legumes, dairy or refined sugar).
Low-carb · Depends on the version
Compatibility depends on the portion and preparation. A sourced carbohydrate amount for a defined serving is not available.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

Reviewed ingredient entryIngredient reference · Preparations vary

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Sources & review

Nutrition reference: Australian Food Composition Database, Release 3, 2025 — Cheese, goat, soft ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

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