This is the official conclusion of the Swiss experts from ZHAW Food Perception Research Group, and yes, it’s real news.
You must have heard a lot about the powerful influence of classical music played to the embryos but who would have thought that dairy products can also be affected in a tangible way.
It was the initiative of Beat Wampfler, a cheesemaker from Switzerland, to couple with Bern University of Arts and carry out a 6-months experiment on the well-known Emmental cheese. During this time, the three main cheese samples were exposed to classical music (The Magic Flute by Mozart), hip-hop (We Got It from Here) and rock (Stairway to Heaven). There were other options too – ‘listening’ to UV by Vril, Monolith by Yellow, to low-, medium- and high-frequency soundwaves and one of the samples lay in complete silence.
All of the sounds were transmitted directly into the cheese wheels and resonated inside them 24/7.
In half a year, as a result of a few blind testing rounds, technologists, scientists and renowned cheese specialists made their conclusions. It was commonly agreed that the music-exposed cheese in general had a completely different texture, looks and taste compared to the ‘silent’ one. As for the genres, Mozart made its Emmental clearly milder in taste, while the hip-hop lead to a strong fruity flavour. It is now planned to continue the research by playing other types of music to the cheeses. Who knows, maybe a third success ingredient will be added to the milk and bacteria duet sooner than we think.