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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 days ago (7 children)

White American Cheese .... is there such a thing? ... can it be called Cheese?

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

American cheese without the colorant, thus perfectly healthy

[–] db2@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

American cheese isn't a bad thing when it's the amalgam of several other cheeses. When it's just oil and binders it isn't even cheese though. There's no good way to know before buying it since they can call both cheese.

[–] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They cannot call both cheese, cheese is labelled as cheese and American cheese is labelled as "pasteurized process cheese product"

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

No, there is American cheese that is actual cheese, not just processed dairy product. Of course you won’t find someone like Kraft making it.

[–] pipe01@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do they not show the list of ingredients?

On the package? Yes.
At a restaurant? Not usually.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's still cheese "product" though, right?

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago
[–] trashboat@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

American cheese is a travesty, but with that said, most American cheese I’ve had has been eating Kraft singles as a kid… so I may just be biased

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 20 points 2 days ago

Legally, in the US? Probably.

Try it on a European tourist as a prank.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

It depends but technically yes. American cheese is pretty simple, one or multiple cheeses blended with sodium citrate and some milk to create a very smoothly melting cheese. I actually made some myself last night by melting a bunch of very sharp cheddar cheese into some milk and adding a few slices of a decent American cheese to get the sodium citrate. I basically made a really good borderline cheese whiz for the sandwiches I made.

Kraft Singles, (which is what everyone likely has in mind for plastic fake cheese) however don't contain enough cheese as an ingredient to call the final product an actual cheese, there is a lot of milk powder added in that tips the ratios into cheese product territory.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago

Made from white cheddar instead of yellow cheddar. Only difference is no annetto.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's a prepared cheese product! My uncle used to work at a factory that made it so I know their process.

It was only about 40% cheese, and the cheese utilized was a blend of the bits left over from making things like cheese sticks. This was combined with milk, milk proteins, and several emulsifiers to keep it from separating into oil and solids as it solidifies and again if it's melted.

Even the US won't allow it to be called cheese. It's called a "pasteurized prepared cheese product" because it doesn't contain enough cheese to legally call itself cheese or any variant of processed cheese.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It's a good grilled cheese cheese, and the standard cheese on Cuban Cheese Toast here. Taste slightly sharper than the yellow one. Good also for queso dip in a pinch. There is also a Swiss flavor white American cheese, that also gets used because it melts better than real Swiss. Not good.

And no they aren't cheese, though made of mostly cheese, they are "pasteurized processed cheese food".

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 2 days ago

Pawcohiccora is better than sodium citrate mammary secretions.