What is an alternative to cheese powder?!
What is an alternative to cheese powder?
I've never used it before so I don't know how it tastes...HELP!
Answers:
depends on what you are needing it for. if you are making mac n cheese, i would use either cream or whole milk and you favorite shredded cheese as the sauce, and of course salt and pepper to taste.
What do you need to use it for? Alternatives depend on what you need it for.
depends...what you making
Cheese powder
The ingredient "cheese powder" does not have a standard of identity set by the FDA or international standards, so it may contain whatever a supplier or food processor needs it to. Thus, cheese powder provides an economical and more "operations-friendly" choice of adding flavor to a product, when compared to the addition of expensive aged cheese.
Cheese powders usually are no more than 10-15% of most final products, and the actual percentage of real cheese within that cheese powder varies from product to product.
Cheese powders generally are used for dry snacks and sauces or re-hydrated and used in fillings. Some powders have no real cheese at all. However, a typical cheese powder may be a combination of up to 15% cheese, whey, vegetable oil, maltodextrin, and calcium caseinate. Often times, artificial flavors, natural flavors and flavor potentiators like disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, MSG, autolyzed yeast extract and enzyme modified cheeses are added to cheese powder as flavor enhancers. Manipulating enzymes and cultures to create high-flavor cheeses for use in powders is sometimes better than using bland commodity cheeses, says Tom Rieman, a business manager with a cheese ingredient supplier. "Using high-flavor cheeses allows a much more flavorful cheese powder and better value to the manufacturer."
USE REAL CHEDDAR AS AN ALTERNATIVE!
REAL cheese?