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Food Values and Adulterations: Cheese

Cheese. One of the most important among dairy products is cheese. This has been a common article of diet among civilized people since the earliest times. Yet, oddly enough, its food value is not fully appreciated and it labors under what seems to be an unfounded prejudice, being supposed to cause certain digestive disturbances. Cheese is among the best of all meat substitutes and, at ordinary prices, is one of the cheapest sources of proteid. Its flavor is so pronounced that there may be one or more members of a family who do not relish it. And from lack of experience most housekeepers are unskillful in the use of cheese in cookery. Yet when properly cooked and relished it may fill an important place in the diet.