Kraft American cheese is regular old American cheese, albeit made with cheaper cheddar. It’s emulsified into skim milk instead of water, which is interesting.
If you read the article/definition of cheese, it's just that the additives make up more than 5% which means it can't be legally classified as cheese, but the point of that law is that businesses were using mostly filler and selling it as cheese. This is to protect consumers by informing them of ingredients, not to define what cheese is. 94% of a kraft is still pure cheese by every definition. Like if you made a cheese dip and put enough peppers in it that it was 5.1% peppers, you couldn't sell it as cheese even though everyone knows it's cheese and peppers. The law isn't defining what is and isn't cheese it's defining how much of what you're buying is cheese. A kraft single by every other definition of cheese is still cheese.
Well, that depends on the country. Not all countries use that definition.
“cheese” means the fresh or matured product intended for sale for human consumption, which is obtained as follows—
(a)
in the case of any cheese other than whey cheese, by combining, by coagulation or by any technique involving coagulation, of any of the following substances, namely milk, cream, skimmed milk, partly skimmed milk, concentrated skimmed milk, reconstituted dried milk, butter milk, materials obtained from milk, other ingredients necessary for the manufacture of cheese provided that those are not used for replacing, in whole or in part, any milk constituent, with or without partially draining the whey resulting from coagulation;
(b)
in the case of whey cheese—
(i)
by concentrating whey with or without the addition of milk and milk fat, and moulding such concentrated whey, or
(ii)
by coagulating whey with or without the addition of milk and milk fat;
Im waiting for the day someone actuslly provides a verifiable and trusted source from an authority stating the 51% nonsense. I've only seen it linked to reddit posts, blogs, and unverified claims.
Kraft had used label "Pasteurized Process Cheese Food", which allows for a greater percentage of added dairy, until the FDA gave a warning in December 2002 stating that Kraft could not legally use that label any longer due to a formulation change that replaced some of the non-fat milk in the recipe with milk protein concentrate, which is not a permitted additive.
Kraft Singles contain no vegetable oil or other non-dairy fats.
They replaced the milk water with a concentrate of milk protein.
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u/Remarkable_Rough_649 16h ago
American cheese is just an emulsified blend of cheddar and Colby. Kraft American is not real cheese but American cheese is real cheese