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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
I'm reading the ingredients off the box at home. It is a duplicate of what I found on the Kraft website, so I'll post a copy/paste here:
No cheese dust. It's cheese sauce mix. The ingredients to make the cheese sauce mix, are juuuuust about the same as the ingredients to make yellow cheddar cheese.
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No, they're not. The first ingredient listed for the cheese sauce mix is whey. Whey is the stuff that cheesemakers throw out after the cheese has curdled. Farmers spread it on their fields for fertilizer. (I once worked for a cheese company in Wisconsin.)
Its a cheap ingredient yet its listed first. In a proper cheese sauce, cheese would be listed first. And a proper cheese sauce doesn't need paprika, turmeric, and annatto for color. The cheese has its own color.
As I said, Federal lunch and food service guidelines don't allow the boxed product to be used because it contains so little protein.