To possess the flavor of the satisfactory process cheeses of machining aptitude, and

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide processed cheese having good machinability, improved in machinability into a shredding state or a cubic one while maintaining intensity of flavor inherent in specially hard natural cheese such as Parmesan cheese, and to provide a method for producing the processed cheese.;SOLUTION: The processed cheese having good machinability is obtained by adding molten salt and water to natural cheese containing 50-100 wt.% of the specially hard natural cheese, and heating and stirring the mixture to be molten so as to obtain processed cheese having the flavor of the specially hard natural cheese and applicable to machine processing into small pieces. It is found that use of 0.1-5 wt.% of phosphate and/or citrate as the molten salt enables improvement in flavor and physical properties of the processed cheese.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT