{"id":384828,"date":"2026-04-06T15:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384828\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:06:13","slug":"the-supermarket-feta-taste-test-this-own-label-cheese-is-creamy-and-the-flavour-is-good-enough-to-work-in-a-salad-as-well-as-in-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384828\/","title":{"rendered":"The supermarket feta taste test: \u2018This own-label cheese is creamy and the flavour is good enough to work in a salad as well as in cooking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">We try some of the best \u2013 and worst \u2013 versions on the market\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Supermarket feta cheese\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/iwTFeta10404.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Supermarket feta cheese<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Feta cheese has had EU Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status since 2002. It has to be produced from sheep\/goat\u2019s milk \u2013 goat\u2019s milk can make up a maximum of 30pc \u2013 either on mainland Greece or the island of Lesbos. There are strict rules regarding production methods, including a two-month minimum ageing period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Traditionally, feta was aged in beechwood barrels, and barrel-aged feta attracts a premium price. Depending on how you plan to use the cheese, you might select a cheaper, non-barrel-aged feta cheese. In cooking, it will be hard to tell the difference \u2013 in a salad, it might be worth splurging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We try some of the best \u2013 and worst \u2013 versions on the market Supermarket feta cheese Feta&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,3412],"class_list":["post-384828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-katy-mcguinness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}