Of fundamental importance, since it is one of the building blocks of bones, calcium ensures the growth and maintenance of the entire bone structure. It is principally found in milk and dairy products, including cheese.
Everyone, both old and young, needs calcium. To ensure you meet the daily requirement, you should ideally consume one milk product per meal. Because of physiological changes in the body, calcium requirements vary throughout one's life, but are highest during childhood, adolescence, pregnancy, breast-feeding, and in old age.
Sweets, chocolate, sugary drinks... Unfortunately, dairy products are often forgotten, both by children and adults, during the light meals and snacks we eat throughout the day, including at teatime.
The main raw material in processed cheeses is cheese itself, to which is often added other dairy products. The cheeses are usually pressed cheeses, both cooked and uncooked, but many other cheeses can be used in the mixture: soft cheeses, goat’s cheese, blue cheese etc.
The manufacturing process has several phases:
- Ripening of the cheeses in specialised areas until they reach the right level of maturity.
- Preparation of the cheeses, which are mechanically de-rinded, grated and mixed.
- The addition, in large vats, of several types of cheeses, other dairy products (cream, butter, liquid or powdered milk, milk serum, lactalbumin, lactoglobulin, casein etc.) emulsifying salts and melting salts. Spices and flavourings can also be added. To obtain a variety of tastes, young fresh tasting cheeses are added to riper cheeses and they influence the final taste of the cheese with their own particular tastes. The blend can also be enriched with a wide variety of flavourings: nuts, ham, olives, mushrooms, pepper, fines herbs, onions, eau de vie, seafood, meat etc.
* Bel group Business :
World No. 1 in branded processed cheese packaged in pre-cut portions, and No. 1 cheese spread producer in France and the rest of Europe - with leadership positions in a significant number of countries among the largest world markets:
We do business in over 100 countries
- Our 2001 sales reached €1.741 billion, 63% outside France
- Nearly 10,000 employees participate in the Group's future
* Strong Brands :
bel group has developed a portfolio of more than 20 international and domesctic brands strongly positioned in their respective markets : The Laughing Cow is sold in almost 100 countries, Kiri and Mini Babybel in over 60. The recently acquired Leerdammer brand is one of the most dynamic on the Swiss-style cheese market in Europe.
Official website of the Bel group includes information on history, cheese brands (Laughing Cow, cheese & fun, Babybel, Kiri, Leerdammer…), manufacturing of cheese products , nutrition and healthy eating advice, recipe ideas, job offers, financial results
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