What is rennet?

Rennet is like a special helper that makes milk turn into cheese.

Imagine you're playing with playdough and you want to make it squishy and form little balls, rennet does something similar, but with milk. It helps the milk clump together, just like when you mix flour and water and it gets lumpy.

Rennet is made from enzymes, which are like tiny workers that do specific jobs. These enzymes go into milk and start a kind of "dance" with the proteins in it, making them stick together. This makes the milk thicken up and form curds, the lumpy part of cheese.

Rennet can come from animals, like cows or goats, but sometimes it’s made in a lab too. It's kind of like how some people use real eggs for baking, and others use fake ones, both work, just different ways!

So next time you eat cheese, remember: rennet was probably there helping it become you!