Cheese analogue

These foods may be intended as replacements for cheese, as with vegan products, or as alternatives, as in the case of products used for salad bars and pizza-making, that may have other properties such as lower cholesterol content or different melting points that make them attractive to businesses.

[1] Vegan cheese may be made from soybeans, rice, almonds, nutritional yeast and other non-dairy ingredients.

One variant of pasteurized processed cheese dairy products is, according to a hospitality industry source, designed to melt well on pizza,[4] while remaining chewy; this has been described as "artificial cheesy substance that's much quicker and cheaper to produce than the real thing".

[10] They tend to have a soft texture and once melted, may have a slightly "stringy" quality when pulled or bitten into.

[11] In 1987 it was asserted that—at that time—each year in the United States over 700 million frozen pizzas were sold, three quarters of which contain cheese substitutes.