American cheese | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-11

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American cheese


00:02:00 1 History
00:02:09 1.1 Origins
00:03:45 2 Modern varieties
00:06:03 3 Market size
00:06:33 4 See also
00:06:58 5 Notes
00:07:06 6 External links



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American cheese is a type of processed cheese. It can be orange, yellow, or white in color, is mild, salty, and faintly sweet in flavor, has a medium-firm consistency, and has a very low melting point.
Very early in its history, American cheese was only white in color—as it was made from a blend of cheeses (most often including cheddar cheese) which were originally only white. However, the later versions are often a yellow hue due to the addition of annatto, a sweet and nutty seasoning added to cheddar and to Colby so that by the late 1800s American cheese was often simply called "yellow cheese".
Today’s American cheese is, by law, required to be manufactured from at least two types of cheese. Because its manufacturing process differs from "unprocessed" natural cheeses, American cheese cannot be legally sold under the name (authentic) "cheese" in the US. Instead, federal laws mandate that it be labeled as "processed cheese" if simply made from combining more than one cheese, or "cheese food" if dairy ingredients such as cream, milk, skim milk, buttermilk, cheese whey, or albumin from cheese whey are added. As a result, sometimes even the word "cheese" is absent altogether from the product's labeling in favor of, e.g., "American slices" or "American singles".  In the United Kingdom, packs of individually wrapped slices are labeled as "singles", although they are commonly referred to as "cheese slices".
The previously used marketing term, "American cheese", for processed cheese – combined with the commonality of processed cheeses in the US, versus outside it – has led to the terms American cheese and "processed cheese" to often be confused outside the United States. However, the term "American cheese" has a legal definition as a type of pasteurized processed cheese under the American Code of Federal Regulations.