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Article: Cheese powder-the ingredient chameleon.(ingredient challenges)
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- Prepared Foods
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- January 1, 2004
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The ingredient "cheese powder" does not have a standard of identity set by the FDA or international standards, so it may contain whatever a supplier or food processor needs it to. Thus, cheese powder provides an economical and more "operations-friendly" choice of adding flavor to a product, when compared to the addition of expensive aged cheese. Cheese powders usually are no more than 10-15% of most final products, and the actual percentage of real cheese within that cheese powder varies from product to product.
Building Cheese Flavors
Cheese powders generally are used for dry snacks and sauces or re-hydrated and used in fillings. Some powders have no ...