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 Other historical documents from the period confirm that annatto (then called "orleaan" or "orleans") was being used to color cheese by the mid-18th century.[15]
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 Other historical documents from the period confirm that annatto (then called "orleaan" or "orleans") was being used to color cheese by the mid-18th century.[15]