When it comes to the top 10 best-selling kinds of cheese in the world, most people will be able to name half of them. But it is the rest of them that makes this list so interesting…

10 – Cream cheese (2% of Cheese Eaters Favourite Cheese)

Wiki Info: Cream cheese is a soft, mild-tasting fresh cheese made from milk and cream. Stabilizers such as carob bean gum and carrageenan are typically added in industrial production.

9 – Camembert (2% of Cheese Eaters Favourite Cheese)

Wiki Info: Camembert is a soft, creamy, surface-ripened cow’s milk cheese. It was first made in the late 18th century at Camembert, Normandy, in northern France.

8 – Feta (3% of Cheese Eaters Favourite Cheese)

Wiki Info: Feta is a brined curd white cheese made in Greece from sheep’s milk, or from a mixture of sheep and goat’s milk. Similar brined white cheeses produced in Europe are often made partly or wholly of cow’s milk, and they are also sometimes called feta.

7 – Wensleydale (6% of Cheese Eaters Favourite Cheese)

Wiki Info: Wensleydale is a style of cheese originally produced in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England, but now mostly made in large commercial creameries throughout the UK.

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6 – Stilton (6% of Cheese Eaters Favourite Cheese)

Wiki Info: Stilton is an English cheese, produced in two varieties: Blue, known for its characteristic strong smell and taste, and the lesser-known White.

5 – Parmesan (6% of Cheese Eaters Favourite Cheese)

Wiki Info: Parmigiano-Reggiano, or Parmesan cheese, is a hard, granular cheese. The name “Parmesan” is often used generically for various simulations of this cheese, although this is prohibited in trading in the European Economic Area under European law.

4 – Brie (9% of Cheese Eaters Favourite Cheese)

Wiki Info: Brie is a soft cows milk cheese named after Brie, the French region from which it originated. It is pale in colour with a slight greyish tinge under a rind of white mould.

3 – Red Leicester (12% of Cheese Eaters Favourite Cheese)

Wiki Info: Red Leicester is an English cheese, made in a similar manner to Cheddar cheese, although it is crumblier, sold at 3 to 12 months of age. The rind is reddish-orange with a powdery mould on it.

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2 – Mozzarella (16% of Cheese Eaters Favourite Cheese)

Wiki Info: Mozzarella is a traditional southern Italian dairy product made from Italian buffalo’s milk by the pasta filata method. Mozzarella received a Traditional Specialities Guaranteed certification from the European Union in 1998.

1 – Cheddar (38% of Cheese Eaters Favourite Cheese)

Wiki Info: Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of the English county of Somerset. It is situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, 9 miles north-west of Wells.