FriP cheese: the best cheese-making tradition for patients with impaired renal function

Patients with impaired renal function have several dietary limitations, including cheese for both its high phosphorus and sodium content. However, cheese is an important component of the European diet, and its limitation, together with the many other deprivations, negatively affects patients’ quali...

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Main Authors: Maria Cristina Mancuso, Gianluigi Ardissino
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Language:Italian
Published: AboutScience Srl 2025-08-01
Series:Giornale di Clinica Nefrologia e Dialisi
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Online Access:https://journals.aboutscience.eu/index.php/gcnd/article/view/3583
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description Patients with impaired renal function have several dietary limitations, including cheese for both its high phosphorus and sodium content. However, cheese is an important component of the European diet, and its limitation, together with the many other deprivations, negatively affects patients’ quality of life and nutrition. We have developed a cheese-making process characterized by the enrichment of milk with calcium carbonate to provide patients with a nutritional opportunity while improving their phosphorus control. The procedure can be applied to any type of milk and cheese. The derived products (identified by the designation of FriP) have optimal palatability, being indistinguishable from regular cheese. FriP cheese has a very low concentration of absorbable phosphorus and a low sodium content. FriP cheese has proven its efficacy in lowering phosphorus absorption in both healthy subjects and in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, as well as its safety as to calcium metabolism. Herein, we share the story of how FriP cheese has been developed to become an additional resource for overcoming some of the dietary limitations of patients with CKD towards better nutrition, phosphorus control, and quality of life.
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spelling doaj-art-40f5034829f34d0c9c5bcd4986d1dfea2025-08-20T03:37:05ZitaAboutScience SrlGiornale di Clinica Nefrologia e Dialisi2705-00762025-08-0137110.33393/gcnd.2025.3583FriP cheese: the best cheese-making tradition for patients with impaired renal functionMaria Cristina Mancuso0Gianluigi Ardissino1Pediatric Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano - ItalyPediatric Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano - Italy Patients with impaired renal function have several dietary limitations, including cheese for both its high phosphorus and sodium content. However, cheese is an important component of the European diet, and its limitation, together with the many other deprivations, negatively affects patients’ quality of life and nutrition. We have developed a cheese-making process characterized by the enrichment of milk with calcium carbonate to provide patients with a nutritional opportunity while improving their phosphorus control. The procedure can be applied to any type of milk and cheese. The derived products (identified by the designation of FriP) have optimal palatability, being indistinguishable from regular cheese. FriP cheese has a very low concentration of absorbable phosphorus and a low sodium content. FriP cheese has proven its efficacy in lowering phosphorus absorption in both healthy subjects and in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, as well as its safety as to calcium metabolism. Herein, we share the story of how FriP cheese has been developed to become an additional resource for overcoming some of the dietary limitations of patients with CKD towards better nutrition, phosphorus control, and quality of life. https://journals.aboutscience.eu/index.php/gcnd/article/view/3583Calcium carbonateCheeseCKDDialysisFriPHyperphosphatemia
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FriP cheese: the best cheese-making tradition for patients with impaired renal function
Giornale di Clinica Nefrologia e Dialisi
Calcium carbonate
Cheese
CKD
Dialysis
FriP
Hyperphosphatemia
title FriP cheese: the best cheese-making tradition for patients with impaired renal function
title_full FriP cheese: the best cheese-making tradition for patients with impaired renal function
title_fullStr FriP cheese: the best cheese-making tradition for patients with impaired renal function
title_full_unstemmed FriP cheese: the best cheese-making tradition for patients with impaired renal function
title_short FriP cheese: the best cheese-making tradition for patients with impaired renal function
title_sort frip cheese the best cheese making tradition for patients with impaired renal function
topic Calcium carbonate
Cheese
CKD
Dialysis
FriP
Hyperphosphatemia
url https://journals.aboutscience.eu/index.php/gcnd/article/view/3583
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