substitutes
Cheddar Cheese substitutes
Out of cheddar cheese? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to cheddar cheese in flavor space. Cheese is closest at 62%.
- 01Cheese62% flavor match
- 02Swiss Cheese61% flavor match
- 03Muenster Cheese60% flavor match
- 04Cream Cheese51% flavor match
- 05Provolone Cheese50% flavor match
- 06Mozzarella Cheese50% flavor match
- 07Feta Cheese48% flavor match
- 08Blue Cheese48% flavor match
Cooking with cheddar cheese?
Paste your recipe into Mise — we'll find every ingredient as a real product you can buy, and swap the ones you can't, like cheddar cheese, for the closest match in stock.
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Each match is the nearest neighbour to cheddar cheese in Epicure, a food-science model mapping the aroma compounds of ~1,790 ingredients across 4 million recipes. The percentage is their flavor-space similarity. Taste as you go — substitutes shift texture and intensity too.
Flavor data: Epicure (Radzikowski & Chen, 2026), arXiv:2605.22391, CC-BY-4.0.