How serious is the no-soft-cheese-during-pregnancy rule?

This is my favorite cheese and I’ve just been craving it bad. It says the milk is pasteurized…? I am posting the ingredients.

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What type of cheese is this? You can have it if it’s pasteurised and cooked through. Like a baked Camembert, for example.

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It’s okay if it’s pasteurized! I’ve been searching for a pasteurized blue cheese as it’s my favorite

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Pasteurised or frazzled

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lol I had ham and soft cheese through out my whole pregnancy 😳🤫

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it is triple crème Brie. I could probably heat it up before eating

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If it is pasteurised there is no problem. The “issue” with soft cheeses and the reason to avoid them during pregnancy is that most of them are non pasteurised

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You're fine. You can't get true soft cheese in America it isn't allowed.

Soft cheese is referring to unpasteurized cheese, not just the texture

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If it’s pasteurized it’s fine. It’s like having a cooked egg versus over-easy.

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You’re fine!! Do you think the French stop eating whatever cheese they want or the Japanese eliminate sushi from their diet? Nope! It’s a bit arbitrary between different cultures… I also eat runny eggs daily bc that’s how you get the best nutrients out of a yolk 😇

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Yes, this is pasteurized. But the problem with this specific cheese is that it came cut from a larger piece, in a deli.

If you’re going to eat pasteurized soft cheese, you need to buy the whole wheel and eat it.

This piece has the possibility of having listeria, listeriosis can cause miscarriage.

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even in Japan, they don’t recommend that pregnant women eat sushi because of the risk of listeria. Please don’t spread this dangerous misinformation.

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Hi! I’m French and I’m actually glad to be living in the US because I’m craving my country’s cheese a lot. This is a question all of my French mom friends have had to ask and be careful about during their pregnancies. Here it says the milk is pasteurized so… you’re good to go 😊

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It says it’s pasteurized, so it’s safe for pregnancy. Most soft cheese found in the US is pasteurized.

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It says pasteurized on that label so it's fine!

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If it’s pasteurized you’re good- enjoy!

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exactly! American guidance on “health” is nonsense. They tell us we can’t have so many things rich in nutrients during pregnancy, but McDonald’s and every other poisonous processed food product is totally fine. 😂

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no one says that living off McDonald’s is fine 😂

But the fact is that things that are unpasteurized can have listeriosis, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria, Q fever, and brucellosis.

Also, things that have been cut in a deli can carry listeria’s even after having been pasteurized.

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It's due to the pasteurisation of the milk and soft cheeses like brie and blue cheeses are mold ripened and can have listeria on them.

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If it’s pasteurized you’re fine!! I live in France and we’re only restricted in the raw milk cheeses

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