Processed cheese

Applications overview

When you are looking for a dairy product/ingredient to use in your final application, either for food or feed, this overview will help you. Below you will see examples of food and feed applications in which our dairy ingredients have been applied. You can see what kind of products are used for which specific application. For further information about these dairy ingredients we kindly refer to the “products” tab of this website.

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Processed cheese

Processed cheese is made by shredding and blending cheese, adding melting salts and other ingredients, heating, stirring the melted mass for several minutes and cooling. Processed cheese has a longer shelf life, is easy to handle and is homogeneous. In general there are two types of processed cheese: spreads and sliceable blocks.

Perfecta offers the following types of ingredients which can be used to make processed cheese:

• Different types of cheese (Mozzarella, Cheddar, Emmental etc.) to enhance the cheese flavour;
• Butter for a natural dairy taste and it gives the processed cheese a soft texture;
• Sweet whey powder is a cost effective source of lactose and proteins;
• Rennet casein has a high level of proteins and calcium delivering maximum levels of firmness and functionality to processed cheese;
• Milk Protein Concentrate is a cost effective source of proteins.