Cheese with a creamy, smooth texture made from milk with a relatively low dry matter content and range of fat contents, skim milk soft cheese having a butterfat content of <2% and full-fat soft cheese containing at least 20% butterfat. Can be ripened, e.g. Camembert cheese, or unripened (fresh), e.g. Cottage cheese, cream cheese, fro-mage frais, quarg.