Cheese is definitely not the color of milk. Go grab some buttermilk and shake it in a jar to make your own butter. It will be yellow because fat solids are yellow. Add time, oxidation, bacteria and/or mold cultures, and you have all varying colors of cheese. Fake cheap ORANGE cheddar cheese is colored with annatto.
That's not true. Most of the fat gets removed from milk to make butter the rest of the milk is used to make cheese.Hence the need for coloring. White cheddar is cheddar without annatto.
The earliest known documentation of annatto's use in cheese is in a 1743 Dutch volume Huishoudelyk Woordboek (Household Dictionary), according to American scientist Paul Kindstedt of the University of Vermont. Other historical documents from the period confirm that annatto (then called "orleaan" or "orleans") was being used to color cheese by the mid-18th century.[15]
Cheese is definitely not the color of milk. Go grab some buttermilk and shake it in a jar to make your own butter. It will be yellow because fat solids are yellow. Add time, oxidation, bacteria and/or mold cultures, and you have all varying colors of cheese. Fake cheap ORANGE cheddar cheese is colored with annatto.
That's not true. Most of the fat gets removed from milk to make butter the rest of the milk is used to make cheese.Hence the need for coloring. White cheddar is cheddar without annatto.
The earliest known documentation of annatto's use in cheese is in a 1743 Dutch volume Huishoudelyk Woordboek (Household Dictionary), according to American scientist Paul Kindstedt of the University of Vermont. Other historical documents from the period confirm that annatto (then called "orleaan" or "orleans") was being used to color cheese by the mid-18th century.[15]