Tummy 24 cheeses allowed on the specific carbohydrate diet (SCD)
Which cheeses are you allowed to eat (legal) on the SCD? Follow this simple rule: avoid processed cheeses.
Legal cheeses (SCD approved)
- Asiago cheese — in small amounts
- Blue cheese — in small amounts
- Brick cheese — eat freely
- Brie cheese — in small amounts
- Camembert cheese — in small amounts
- Cheddar cheese — eat freely
- Colby cheese — eat freely
- Dry Curd Cottage Cheese (DCCC)
- Edam cheese — in small amounts
- Gorgonzola cheese — in small amounts
- Gouda cheese — in small amounts.
- Gruyere cheese
- Havarti cheese — eat freely
- Limburger cheese — in small amounts
- Manchego Cheese
- Monterey Jack cheese — in small amounts
- Muenster cheese — in small amounts
- Parmesan cheese — in small amounts
- Port du Salut cheese — in small amounts
- Provolone cheese
- Romano cheese — in small amounts
- Roquefort cheese — in small amounts
- Stilton cheese — in small amounts
- Swiss cheese — eat freely
Illegal cheeses!
Many irratable bowl disease (IBD) patients have trouble with these cheeses when starting the diet.
- Cottage cheese
- Cream cheese
- Feta Cheese (try after 6 months)
- Gjetost cheese
- Mozzarella cheese
- Neufchatel cheese
- Primost cheese
- All processed cheeses
- Ricotta cheese
- Tofutti cheese
See if there are any local dairy farms in your area. You’ll get very fresh unprocessed cheese and get to know your local farmers and their animals.
seems confusing to say “fresh cheese, aged at least thirty days.” I don’t fully understand cheese, but I know it has to age, and the aging is the fermenting that makes it alright for SCD, so why would it need to be “fresh”, and what does “fresh” cheese mean, anyway. And what’s the problem with Mozarella… I’m very confused and very hungry and don’t know what to eat.
Me too, Jack. So confused, as there is much contradictory misinformation on the web.
Easiest way to “not” be confused is to stick with what Elaine says in “Breaking the Vicious Cycle”.
She and Dr Haas set the guidelines. The web does have bits and pieces that don’t match up with those guidelines…that’s the web for ya.
If you don’t already have a copy of the REAL SCD diet, ie…”Vicious Cycle”…..please get one…even if you just go to the library and check out a copy.
It even has wonderfully simple recipes. Elaine really explains the molecular structure in an easy to understand way…so we know that if Mozarella is “illegal” that means its particular molecules or digestive properties are really like poison for our systems. I have saved the “legal / illegal” page in my favorites so I can easily double check something….but there’s so much that’s “legal”….
You don’t need to be hungry!!!! Yes, you may need to make some substitutions for things you already love….Only you can decide if it’s worth it to feel better all the time.