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It is a soft cheese with red smear from the Pays d'Auge. The characterful cheese with a strong aroma and strong taste, christened "meat of the poor" in the 19th century, has the nickname "Colonel" due to the stabilizing wrapping with 5 bands. They are made from sedge stalks (sedge grass collected in the lagoons, bound and dried).
Livarot has been marked with the European seal AOP (Protected Designation of Origin) since 1975.
The red European AOP seal (appellation d'origine protégée = "protected designation of origin") guarantees the consumer that all production stages take place exclusively in the defined geographical area of the designation, from the production of the milk to the maturing of the cheese.
In France, 45 types of cheese, 3 types of butter and 2 types of cream are labeled with the European seal "AOP".
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