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Cheese is a dairy product made from milk, including cow's milk, through the process of cheesemaking. It is classified as a quark and carries the Unicode character 🧀. The subject is covered by the Commons category and gallery titled "Cheese," with hashtags including Käse and Cheese. It is described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.

Nutritional data from Openfoodfacts indicates that cheese has an energy content of 323 kcal, with 25 g of fat, 15.2 g of saturated fat, 4.7 g of carbohydrates, and 20.1 g of proteins. It contains 1.9 g of sugars, 0.2 g of fiber, and 2.48 g of salt. The product holds a Nutri-Score of d and a NOVA classification of 3. Its carbon footprint is recorded as 7.3.

The topic has a dedicated list of cheeses and is referenced by 2,238 other encyclopedia articles. It appears in 17,710 PubMed queries and is associated with 20,456 products in the Openfoodfacts database. The history of the subject is documented separately, and the topic is part of the Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have.