Most of the consumers have a false perception of fat in cheese, even doctors and other specialists of health.
In 2008, the CSA (a French survey institute) asked 224 of them about that subject : they evaluated the cheese’s fat at 48% on average, which is two times more than the fact. For example, a raw milk AOP Camembert contains only 21% of fat (for total weight). Surprising, isn’t it ?
That distorsion was probably created by the previous French labelling norms, which required to mention (...)