Cheese analogue

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Sliced soy cheese on a snack platter

Cheese analogues (more widely known as cheese alternatives) are products used as culinary replacements for cheese. They are usually products made by blending other fats or proteins and used in convenience foods.[1] The category includes vegan cheeses as well as some dairy-containing products that do not qualify as traditional cheeses, such as processed cheese. These foods may be intended as replacements for cheese, as with vegan products, or as alternatives, as in the case of products used for salad bars and pizza-making, that may have other properties such as lower cholesterol content or different melting points that make them attractive to businesses.[1]

Vegan cheese

isoflavones. Many have calcium added.[3]
Several brands melt similarly to dairy cheese, while others stay mostly firm, or melt only when grated.

Analogue pizza cheese

Further information: Pizza cheese § Processed pizza cheeses
St. Louis-style pizza
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One variant of pasteurized processed cheese dairy products is, according to a hospitality industry source, designed to melt well on pizza,[4] while remaining chewy; this has been described as "artificial cheesy substance that's much quicker and cheaper to produce than the real thing".[5] In many cases the dairy fat required for anything described as cheese is replaced by cheaper vegetable oil and additives; this is not illegal if not described as cheese.[6]

These products are sometimes referred to as "analogue

mozzarella cheese requires, such as the processes of mixing and molding.[10] They tend to have a soft texture and once melted, may have a slightly "stringy" quality when pulled or bitten into. They may lack in a fusion, or melt together when cooked.[7]
It has been stated that pizza cheese appears to be the leading type of cheese analogue produced globally.[11] In 1987 it was asserted that—at that time—each year in the United States over 700 million frozen pizzas were sold, three quarters of which contain cheese substitutes.[12]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1016/S0958-6946(01)00073-5
    – via ScienceDirect.
  2. ^ Shurtleff, William; Aoyagi, Akiko. History of Cheese, Cream Cheese and Sour Cream Alternatives (with or without Soy) (1896-2013), Lafayette, California, 2013.
  3. ^ Soy Cheese - US Soyfoods Directory
  4. ISBN 9780470393086
    . Retrieved September 29, 2012.
  5. ^ a b "BBC One - Food Factory, Ready-Made, Fake cheese". BBC. 18 July 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  6. ^ Felicity Lawrence (8 February 2014). "Fake-food scandal revealed as tests show third of products mislabelled". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  7. ^
    ISBN 9781444323757
    . Retrieved September 30, 2012.
  8. ISBN 0834212609
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  9. ISBN 1855739712
    . Retrieved September 30, 2012.
  10. ISBN 1587160218
    . Retrieved September 30, 2012.
  11. ISBN 9781444323757
    . Retrieved September 30, 2012.
  12. ^ "Star Tribune Archives". Nl.newsbank.com. 1987-09-11. Retrieved 2012-09-28. About three-fourths of the 700 million frozen pizzas sold each year in the United States contain cheese substitutes. The most common is casein,... (subscription required)
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