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Article: Responding to consumer demand: shredded cheese continues to make a big impact on category growth.(Category Review)
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- Dairy Field
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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Pre-shredded cheeses have definitely captured the marketplace over the past decade. The supermarket refrigerated cheese section, for example, now features several rows of recloseable flexible packages of shredded cheeses, in dozens of varieties and shred thicknesses. Meanwhile, bulk packages of shredded cheeses are found in almost any foodservice kitchen, usually in a resealable bag.
The demand for shreds is due, in part, to the development of the prepared foods market. People are cooking from scratch less and less often and looking for things that are already prepared. Many processors are taking advantage of this trend by offering distinctive and convenient ...