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{{Short description|Pasteurized prepared cheese product by Kraft}}
{{distinguish|Belvita}}
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{{Infobox brand
| name = Velveeta
| logo = Velveeta
| logo_size = 200
| image = Velveeta_Cheese.JPG
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| producttype = [[
| currentowner = [[Kraft Heinz]]
| producedby = [[Kraft Foods]]
| country = [[United States|U.S.]]
| introduced = {{start date and age|1918}}
| discontinued =
| related =
| markets =
| previousowners = {{plainlist|
* The Velveeta Cheese Company (
* [[Kraft Foods Inc.]] (1927–2012)
}}
| trademarkregistrations =
| tagline =
| website = {{url|https://www.
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'''Velveeta''' is a [[brand]] name for a [[processed cheese]]
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In 1888, the new owners of the Monroe Cheese Co., Adolphe Tode and Ferdinand Wolfe, hired former Neuesswanders Cheese Factory’s cheesemaker Emil Frey. While they would see success with one of Frey’s creations, [[Liederkranz cheese]], they still ultimately fell into financial problems resulting in the foreclosure of the property. In 1891, Jacob Weisl purchased the company from the Goshen Savings Bank. Weisl set up a second factory in Covington, Pennsylvania, that made mostly Swiss cheese. He would have the broken pieces of cheese sent up to Monroe hoping to find a way to prevent the waste. It was during this time that Frey began taking broken pieces of cheese back to his house where he spent two years working on a process to make use of them. In 1918 he had his breakthrough, mixing cheese byproducts with the broken cheese bits to form a cheese blend that would become known as Velveeta. The name ''Velveeta'' was intended to connote a "velvety smooth" product.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Geiling|first1=Natasha|title=There is No Shortage of History When it Comes to Velveeta|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/there-is-no-shortage-history-when-it-comes-velveeta-180949312|website=smithsonianmag.com|publisher=Smithsonian Magazine|access-date=October 18, 2014}}</ref>
The product was advertised as a nutritious health food.<ref>Wyman, Carolyn ''Better than Homemade:Amazing Food that Changed the Way We Eat'' Quirk Books 2004</ref> In the 1930s, Velveeta became the first cheese product to gain the [[American Medical Association]]'s seal of approval.<ref name="Velveeta Brand History">[https://web.archive.org/web/20081220173959/http://brands.kraftfoods.com/Velveeta/VelveetaFlashHistory Velveeta Brand History], Accessed December 23, 2010.</ref> It was reformulated in 1953 as a "[[cheese spread]]",<ref name="Velveeta Brand History"/> but as of 2002 Velveeta must be labeled in the United States as a "[[Processed cheese|pasteurized prepared cheese product]]."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/68222/14-cheesy-facts-about-velveeta|title=14 Cheesy Facts About Velveeta|date=April 6, 2016|access-date=November 8, 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Tunick2013">{{cite book|author=Michael H. Tunick|title=The Science of Cheese|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zco8BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA161|date=November 27, 2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-992231-4|pages=161–}}</ref>▼
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==Ingredients==
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Kraft Foods lists Velveeta's ingredients as: [[milk]], [[water]], [[whey]], [[milk protein concentrate]], [[milkfat]], [[whey protein concentrate]], [[sodium phosphate]], and 2% or less of [[salt]], [[calcium phosphate]], [[lactic acid]], [[sorbic acid]], [[sodium citrate]], [[sodium alginate]], [[enzyme]]s, [[apocarotenal]], [[annatto]], and [[cheese culture]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kraftrecipes.com/products/velveeta-2-pasteurized-prepared-2229.aspx|title=Products}}</ref>{{dead link|date=February 2024}}
== Classification as a pasteurized prepared cheese product ==
In 2002, the [[FDA]] issued a [[FDA warning letter|warning letter]] to Kraft that Velveeta was being sold with packaging that falsely described it as a "pasteurized process cheese spread",<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110818233733/https://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2002/ucm145363.htm WARNING LETTER CHI-6-03], U.S. Food and Drug Administration to Kraft Foods North America, Inc. December 18, 2002. Accessed February 9, 2010.</ref>
== Marketing and advertising ==
Kraft Foods has marketed Velveeta as an ingredient
In the 1980s, Velveeta used the advertising jingle, "[[Colby cheese|Colby]], [[Swiss cheese (North America)|Swiss]] and [[Cheddar cheese|Cheddar]], blended all together" in its US television commercials to explain its taste and texture because real cheese was used in the product at that time.<ref>{{cite web | url =https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecoBoeyjoL4#t=07s | title = Velveeta Cheese Spread (YouTube) | website = [[YouTube]] | access-date = January 6, 2012 }}</ref>
== See also ==
* [[Velveeta Shells & Cheese]]
* [[Convenience food]]
==References==
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