My husband and I heard (but neither of us can remember, I probably read it to him off the Internet - LOL) that a lot of the cheese on the market is equivalent to plastic food. Not necessarily MADE with plastic, I’m not saying that, but it’s not aged properly. The person talking said that cheese should be aged at least a year and at best, several years. So the cheddar cheese we get at the grocery store is really not the sustaining food that cheese was years ago. On this kidney diet you can’t have much cheese anyway - it has too much phosphorus.
Lactose conversion is the issue. Six months is ok for some cheeses, and others take up to a year, but the stuff in the stores was aged by the "Peterbilt" method: In transit from the dairy to the store.
that a lot of the cheese on the market is equivalent to plastic food. Not necessarily MADE with plastic, I’m not saying that, but it’s not aged properly.<<<
For years, they said Velveeta was made of wood shavings, LOL, I think cellulose or something like that is an ingredient.
For myself, I buy cheese in 5# blocks and want real cheese, not the velveeta stuff.
But the last couple times, Safeway had only 2# blocks and it is softer than Cheddar should be and not as tasty.
For the last 50 years, I had thought that never would I get a bad milk product from Safeway, now I don’t know.
I use 5 to 10# a month for myself, so am in trouble if the supply is not going to be right.
Walmart’s cheese makes me nervous, I am at a point that Walmart scares me and walmart is what I can afford to buy.