[taxicabjesus]

There was a time when I was consuming a lot of industrial cheese. I developed a rash on my legs... One day I realized the rash was certainly being caused by my cheap cheese habit. I'm certain it was related to the "vegetarian enzymes" used as an industrial substitute for the traditional animal rennet. I stopped buying the cheap cheese, and my rash went away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennet

Contaminants are a common problem in industrial food manufacturing: citric acid (fungal contaminants), vitamin C (heavy metals), and "enzymes" (?).

I'm glad Italians insist their cheeses be made following the traditional methods.

[lblume]

> I'm certain it was related to the "vegetarian enzymes"

How can you be so certain? I did not find any credible source correlating microbial rennet to rash. Thus I would not rule out that this was simply a coincidence or at least not applicable for most people.

[antisthenes]

> How can you be so certain?

"Vibe diagnosing"

[usepgp]

Vibagnosis

[BenjiWiebe]

Maybe it was an allergic reaction to the mold inhibitor? Vegetarian rennet and animal rennet are both chymosin.