What is lighter cheese?

Lighter cheese is generally a cheese with a lower fat content. Arla B.O.B cheese has 30% less fat* compared with regular mature cheddar.

How do they make lighter cheese?

At Arla, we simply use British cow’s milk with a lower fat content to make our B.O.B Mature Cheddar and B.O.B Grated Mature Cheddar.

Is lighter cheese better for you?

A reduced fat cheese like Arla B.O.B contains 30% less fat* than regular cheese. This can help if you’re following a low fat diet. Find out more about the nutritional value of dairy.

Is lighter cheese hard to digest?

Lighter or reduced fat cheese is just as digestible as regular cheese. Problems with digesting dairy are usually because of lactose intolerance.

How is reduced fat cheese made?

Reduced fat cheese is made in the same way as regular cheese, but uses a lower fat cow’s milk. This results in a lighter, lower fat cheese.

Does reduced fat cheese melt?

Reduced fat cheese can take a little longer to melt due to the lower fat content, but you can still melt and use it in all sorts of ways just like regular cheese.

How many calories in reduced fat cheese?

Arla B.O.B reduced fat cheese contains 321kcals per 100g.

Arla B.O.B Cheese

Our range of B.O.B cheese gives you all the taste without the compromise. Made from lower fat British milk, we’ve created a reduced fat cheese that’s free of additives and artificial ingredients but still full of flavour. Perfect for slicing, grating, and melting. It’s a win for cheese lovers.

B.O.B Grated Mature Cheddar Cheese

Pick up a bag of B.O.B Grated Cheddar Cheese and sprinkle it over anything you like. It’s our reduced fat cheese that’s full of mature cheddar flavour.

Easy for melting on toast, topping a pizza or piling in a sandwich.

B.O.B Grated Cheddar 180g

B.O.B Mature Cheddar Cheese

Enjoy a lighter cheese with all the taste of mature cheddar. Made with lower fat British milk, it brings you all the delicious flavour of a full fat cheese but with 30% less fat.*

Whether you want to slice it, dice it, melt it or grate it, it’s a lighter mature cheddar with no compromise on taste.

B.O.B Mature Cheddar 300g

B.O.B Buzzfeed Recipes

Ultimate Mac and Cheese

Banoffee Bread Pudding

Creamy Herb Chicken

Rainbow Milk Cake

B.O.B Cheese FAQs

Don’t just take our word for it

It’s a tasty claim, but to make sure we could put our money where our mouth is we got the guys at Leatherhead Research to test it out.

They went out into the world to ask real people, aged between 18 and 65 years†, who regularly consume cheese how our B.O.B reduced fat cheese stacked up. When asked about the taste and overall preference, consumers saw no difference between B.O.B Cheese and regular cheese. So you don’t need to just take our word for it - Arla B.O.B Cheese really does taste as great as full fat mature cheddar.

†Based on a statistically valid comparative taste test with 201 regular consumers of full fat mature cheddar cheese (50% female, 50% male), aged between 18 and 65 years.

*30% less fat than a standard equivalent.

†Based on a statistically valid comparative taste test with 201 regular consumers of full fat mature cheddar cheese (50% female, 50% male), aged between 18 and 65 years. *30% less fat than a standard equivalent.

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