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Making cheese is a straightforward process, as it requires minimal skills and few ingredients. The ingredients needed in making cream cheese are milk, cream, and lactic acid bacteria. First, you will mix cream and milk or use cream alone. Add enough lactic acid bacteria to this mixture, depending on the quantity of liquid you have. This bacteria helps distort the pH to enhance coagulation. Perfect coagulation leaves you with curds and whey. Next, all the whey is drained and the curds heated. Once stabilizers are added, cream cheese is formed.

Suppose you want to make cream cheese at home. This will be the best time to use a starter culture. The ingredients needed are lemon juice or vinegar, milk, salt, and cream. Lemon juice and vinegar help enhance coagulation, resulting in whey and curds. Heat the milk up to 86 degrees Fahrenheit and add your lemon juice or vinegar. Remove the whey and process the remaining curd in a food processor until it's smooth and creamy.

While many people enjoy making products such as cheese and cream cheese at home, most get these milk products from local stores. Shopping with Instacart is an easy way to select the types of cream cheese you want in your refrigerator. You can shop at your favorite local store and get your items delivered in as little as 2 hours!

Cream cheese is found in different types, including double-cream, whipped, flavored, and regular. Each option assures you of a distinct taste and nutritional value. The nutritional profile could also vary with the brand and the specific product. However, generally, an ounce of cream cheese provides you with 99 calories, 2g proteins, 10g fat, 2g carbs, 10% of the recommended daily amount of vitamin A, and 5% of the RDA of vitamin B2.

Whipped cream cheese is low in calories, as the whipping process adds air to it, fluffing the cream. Some brands add skim milk to this whipped cream, lowering its fat content.

Flavored cream cheese will also give you varying calorie content, depending on the chosen flavor. For instance, strawberry flavors increase the number of calories and sugar in the cream. This flavor could also raise the carb content. Cream cheese is low in lactose, ranging at about 0.55 grams per ounce. This is lower than cottage cheese but higher than hard cheeses such as cheddar.

Cream cheese's health benefits make it attractive to many people. Here are some of the health benefits it provides.

Cream cheese's shelf life varies, depending on its packaging, processing method, heat exposure, and form. Advanced packaging and processing methods help the cream cheese retain its smooth texture for a long time.

Unopened cream cheese lasts between 3-4 weeks after the sell-by date when refrigerated. If you freeze it, it lasts up to 2 months beyond the sell-by date. However, opened cream cheese lasts for 1-2 weeks.