This isn’t exactly a secret, the other commenter linked part of the regulations about this, and you can just look up actual products that are out there, their ingredients and how they’re labeled, as well as plenty of people out there who have made their own American cheese-like products from cheese and emulsifiers.
And it sounds like you need a new cheese monger, if you got that info from them they’re lying out their ass to sell you some American cheese they couldn’t get rid of otherwise.
Everything I’ve seen online corresponds with Fondots’ explanation. I found this FDA regulation that (if I’m reading/skimming it right) pretty much stipulates that “American Cheese” is a “pasteurized process” cheese, which means (among other things) it includes emulsifiers. It also points out that “American Cheese” is made by processing other cheeses, which may include Swiss, but Swiss is just one of many options.
American Cheese Food by Kraft is what you’re describing.
American Cheese is just Swiss that hasn’t aged.
No American Cheese that I’ve bought in the last 30 years has anything but dairy in it.
Kraft American Cheese Food has other crap in it.
Cute you’d downvote this in your ignorance. Go talk to a cheese monger, they’ll set you straight.
Hoo boy are you confidently incorrect.
This isn’t exactly a secret, the other commenter linked part of the regulations about this, and you can just look up actual products that are out there, their ingredients and how they’re labeled, as well as plenty of people out there who have made their own American cheese-like products from cheese and emulsifiers.
And it sounds like you need a new cheese monger, if you got that info from them they’re lying out their ass to sell you some American cheese they couldn’t get rid of otherwise.
Everything I’ve seen online corresponds with Fondots’ explanation. I found this FDA regulation that (if I’m reading/skimming it right) pretty much stipulates that “American Cheese” is a “pasteurized process” cheese, which means (among other things) it includes emulsifiers. It also points out that “American Cheese” is made by processing other cheeses, which may include Swiss, but Swiss is just one of many options.