Is processed cheese more unhealthy than unprocessed cheese?

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Humberto

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I bought cheese today that is already sliced. It is labelled as processed cheese. I compared its ingredients to that of unprocessed cheese and it seemed about the same. It had less saturated fat than the unprocessed cheese from the same label.
 
If it's that plastic shyte they call cheese then yes, stop eating it.

Saturated fat isn't always a bad thing but you can be damn sure anything processed is not good. Cheese isn't that healthy anyways, if you are worried about your health eat white cheese.

For goodness sake though stop buying that rubbish plastic cheese.
 
but it tastes so nice on toasted sandwitches :(
 
The ones I got are not individually wrapped. It is just ready sliced.

I struggle to slice cheese. It tends to crumble apart.
 
Brawler said:
but it tastes so nice on toasted sandwitches :(
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Yup but if you are worried about the health aspect it isn't ideal.

What cheese you buying bro? geez slicing cheese is easy and it should not crumble. Maybe you need a better knife :D. it can't be ready sliced cheese, why would it be different.

So let use cheddar as example, how could sliced up cheddar have a drastically different label to the block of cheddar? So in theory sliced cheddar should not be better or worse than the block. Even grated it should be the same.
 
At university they sell Amagwinya with polony and cheese slices. Mmmmmmm so good.
 
Specifically what makes processed cheese more unhealthy than unprocessed cheese?

The Wikipedia article does not seem to mention health risks.
 
Humberto said:
Specifically what makes processed cheese more unhealthy than unprocessed cheese?

The Wikipedia article does not seem to mention health risks.
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The article is probably edited by someone in the processed cheese industry :)
 
killadoob said:
Yup but if you are worried about the health aspect it isn't ideal.

What cheese you buying bro? geez slicing cheese is easy and it should not crumble. Maybe you need a better knife :D. it can't be ready sliced cheese, why would it be different.

So let use cheddar as example, how could sliced up cheddar have a drastically different label to the block of cheddar? So in theory sliced cheddar should not be better or worse than the block. Even grated it should be the same.
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The softer the cheese the less yellow its colour is. If the cheese is soft and very yellow then it contains colouring agents.

In order to slice hard cheddar's into thin sliced for pre-packing they have to go through additional processing, so they are different to the cheese in blocks.

Commercial cheddar does contain more flavourents and colouring agents than other cheeses.

There is a perception that soft cheeses are healthier, but other than the extra flavouring and colouring, all cheeses start of with same ingredient. I guess it's these extras which make cheeses "unhealthier"
 
soft cheese is young, hard cheese ir old. That's all I know.

I find a cheese slicer absolutely essential.
 
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