The present invention relates to an item of food containing at least one of the cheese and a container (10), which is closed and enveloping the cheese, the cheese being an integer, not cut, with a soft paste, marbled, and with a moldy rind said moldy rind covering substantially all of the cheese, the said container (10) is closed hermetically, said container (10) having at least one wall (21, 26, 31) with selective permeability to oxygen and / or carbon dioxide and / or water vapor, so as to control the breathing of the cheese, said wall (21, 26, 31) with selective permeability having a thickness between 550µm and 1050µm.