Pule Cheese- The costliest cheese of this world

Hello everyone. This is Pranav Vashisht, a graduate student of Food Science and today I’m going to tell you about the costliest cheese of this world.

So whenever it comes to our mind about the food budget we generally keep it in the minimum expenses column of our home budget but have you ever thought that any food item can cost you as much as your iPhone if not then there is a cheese which can cost you this much.

It’s called a Pule cheese, which is the most expensive cheese on this earth having cost between $600-$1000 per pound. It is soft and crumbly in nature and it falls in the category of smoked cheese i.e. specially treated by smoke curing and it is famous for its rich flavor and natural saltiness.

This cheese is not made of any common milk like cow or buffalo rather milk of special breed of donkey i.e. Balkan donkey which is an endangered species is used for its production. Donkey milk is famous for its application in beauty products from Egyptian history as the Egyptian queen Cleopatra bathed in donkey milk to preserve her beauty. This milk has sixty times more vitamin C than cow milk.

This cheese was originated in Serbia and still, now its production is very rare and limited to that particular country. The Zasavica Special Nature Reserve, Serbia is the only production unit of this cheese and one of the rarely preserved sanctuaries of this species. 

Jennies produce a very little amount of milk every day and this production unit has around 100-130 Balkan donkeys. The yield of the cheese is reported to be around 4% i.e. 100 liters of milk is required for the production of 4 kg of cheese. So, only a few lucky people get a chance to taste this cheese even when they are ready to spend a huge amount of money on it.