When it comes to cheese, is 'processed' a dirty word? Or just a really melty one?
the word “processed” sounds like the gnarliest of curse words, the kind we once whispered on the playground to see what would happen. We hear the word “processed” a lot, often in reference to various forms of vibrantly-hued cheese. But what is processed cheese, anyway? Is it really...not as good as real cheese? More artificial? Less healthy? WeProcessed cheese is not 100% cheese. Most of the time it hovers around 50% cheese, sometimes more and sometimes less, but at a base level,.
Why would the people add this stuff to cheese? Well, we can say it’s to make the cheese a bit creamier or more consistent in flavor or just a little more well-seasoned and craveable. Processing produces cheese that melts like a dream without becoming oily or separating, facilitating the kinds of ooey-gooey cheese pulls that populate Instagram feeds the world over. But really, these ingredients end up in processed cheese because it makes it last longer on the shelf.
What it comes down to is that grocers and distributors don’t have to care for processed cheese in the same way that they do for real cheese.Sweet, sweet Velveeta.So...processed cheese is super bad? We should never eat that stuff, right? Uh...yeah, that's not what we're saying at all.. If we’re talking about a
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