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Light cheeses still have all the essential nutritional qualities of cheese. Their nutritional qualities are extremely valuable. They are rich in building elements: proteins and calcium which are essential for the body’s growth, but the quantity of fatty acids (and therefore cholesterol) is significantly reduced.
Sylphide® our light range offers:
· Processed Gruyère cheese (20% fat), light processed cheese
· Campagnol® (27% fat), a hard cheese
· Le Savoureux® (25% fat), a soft cheese
· Soft goat’s cheese (20% fat), light soft goat’s cheese
· Soft blue cheese (20% fat), light soft blue cheese
· Les Petits Fromagers® (26% fat), 5 mini speciality cheeses with a pleasantly strong taste
Aside from the special Sylphide® range, Bel has perfected and marketed light versions of:
· The Laughing Cow with Equilibre et Légèreté® has 20% fat
· Babybel light® has 27% fat
· Mini Babybel light® has 27% fat

Yes. You need to ensure that they consume as many dairy products as possible (of any kind, and of course not forgetting milk) in order to ensure their calcium needs are fully met. However, if the child does not have any particular weight problems, eating light products is not necessary.

Lightening cheeses is done by removing fat (skimming the milk used in the manufacture). For processed cheeses the raw materials used are themselves lightened: skimmed milk and cheeses with low fat levels.
The fat levels in light cheeses should be between 20 to 30% fats (in the dry material).
The dry material or dry extract is what is left when all the water that it contains has evaporated. The dry material is composed of proteins, fatty materials or lipids, sugars or carbo-hydrates, mineral salts and vitamins. It is therefore the nutritional part of the food.

The Sylphide® range allows the intake of protein and helps to balance diets that are too often rich in lipids without having to remove cheese, which is a valuable source of calcium and vitamins, from the diet. What’s more, these products are useful for women who love cheese but want to watch their weight.