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Product Age |
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Our Romano Cheese has been aged a
minimum of 5 months or more prior to
grating/shredding/shaving and
packaging. |
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Ingredients |
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Imported Pecorino Romano Cheese:
pasteurized sheep’s milk, cheese
cultures, salt, enzymes.
Domestic
Romano Cheese: (pasteurized cow’s
milk, cheese cultures, salt,
enzymes),
if grated, shredded or
shaved powdered cellulose is added
to prevent caking.
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Physical Description |
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Color: |
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White to Creamy white or off
white |
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Flavor: |
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Light sharp to sharp,
piquant and robust |
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Extraneous Matter: |
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Typical clean dairy flavor.
Free from strong, stale,
rancid or foreign
off-flavors & odors
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Product Analysis |
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Property Description |
Limit |
Testing Method |
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Listeria-monocytogenes-ELFA |
Negative in 25/g |
AOAC 99.06 |
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Salmonella-ELFA |
Negative in 25/g |
AOAC 2004.03 |
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Staphylococci - coag.
positive |
<10/g |
AOAC 975.55 |
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E. Coli-Petrifilm |
< 10/g |
AOAC 983.14 |
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Coliform-Petrifilm |
< 100/g |
AOAC 983.14 |
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Yeast and Mold |
< 500/g |
FDA-BAM. 7TH ed |
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Butterfat (dry basis): |
38.0% Minimum |
AOAC 933.05 |
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Moisture-Vacuum Oven
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34.0% Maximum |
AOAC 926.08 |
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Salt-Potentiometric |
4.0% –
6.0% |
AOAC 983.14 |
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Pack Sizes
Available |
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Grated: 4-5lb bags, 4-5lb tubs,
2-5lb bags, 1-5lb bag, 4-10lb bags,
100-10lb bags
Shredded/Shaved: 4-5lb bags, 2-5lb
bags
Bulk Grated: 20lb box, 25lb box,
50lb box |
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Storage |
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Recommended storage
temperature of 33-40 degrees
Fahrenheit. |
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Code Format |
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Product pack date is stamped on
flexible barrier poly-bag and on
corrugated box. An A is in front of
the pack date which represents
Cheese Merchants of America. The
product pack date is the lot code
and serves all traceability
purposes. |
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Shelf Life |
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90
days from product date if sealed.
Bulk Pack: 35 Days
Wheels: 180 days from invoice date |
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Wheels Available |
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Imported Pecorino Romano Cheese
Wheel-55lb random weight wheels,
4-15lb random weight quarters.
Domestic Romano Wheel: 20lb random
weight wheel, |
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Nutritional
Information |
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Nutrition Facts |
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Serving size: 1
Tbsp (5g) |
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Calories 20
Calories from Fat 15 |
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%
Daily Value |
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Total
Fat 2g |
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2% |
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Saturated Fat
1g |
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2% |
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Trans
Fat 0g |
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Cholesterol
5mg |
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5% |
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Sodium
110mg |
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5% |
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Total
Carbohydrate 0g |
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2% |
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Dietary Fiber
0g |
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2% |
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Sugars 0g |
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Protein 2g |
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Vitamin A 2% |
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Calcium 6 % |
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