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Article: A matter of convenience: with consumers demanding great taste and convenience, cheese companies have made it their mission to deliver unique new products.(STATE OF THE INDUSTRY: Cheese)
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- Dairy Field
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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There's no doubt about it--Americans love cheese. Regardless of how they choose to eat it--on pizza, tacos or pasta, or merely on a plate with some crackers--consumers are gobbling up cheese like never before. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, per capita consumption of cheese reached 31.4 pounds in 2005. By 2014, that figure is expected to rise to 34 pounds.
That's pretty impressive, considering that cheese is a very mature category which has long boasted household penetration of nearly 100 percent. For cheesemakers, however, such high demand and continued growth comes as no surprise.
"Cheese is a good healthy product that people believe ...