Can you eat brie in pregnancy?

In pregnancy: Only if…. Only cooked, until piping hot Bloomy-rind cheese: favorable environment for listeria. Avoid unless cooked until steaming hot.

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Brie

In pregnancy: Only if… While breastfeeding: Safe

Rare, but serious if it happens

What makes it safe

Only cooked, until piping hot

Why

Bloomy-rind cheese: favorable environment for listeria. Avoid unless cooked until steaming hot.

It changes after the birth

You can eat this again while breastfeeding: the pregnancy-specific risks (listeria, toxoplasmosis, salmonella) no longer apply after birth. Keep normal food hygiene.

Instead

Stracchino
Brie baked until steaming

Others in this group

Camembert Feta Fontina Fresh goat cheese Gorgonzola Roquefort

General information, not medical advice. It follows the public guidance for pregnancy and breastfeeding, and it cannot know your own history: for anything about your health or your baby's, the person to ask is your midwife or doctor.