How Anti-Caking Agents Affects a Frozen Pizza’s Shelf Life

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Ever wonder how the cheese on a frozen pizza lasts so long? This Food & Wine associate editor has the answer. In this video, Andee Gosnell explains how shredded cheese has anticaking agents, which help preserve and extend the shelf life of prepackaged cheese or items with cheese products like the frozen cheese pizzas they’re taste testing today. Shred your cheese at home to get a gooey, cheesy pull!

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00:00You can kind of see like the distinct lines of where the actual shredded cheese shreds have

00:05fallen. And the reason for this a lot of time, and this happens with all sort of prepackaged

00:09shredded cheeses, is they have what's called anti-caking agents, which are basically things

00:14that are used to preserve and extend the shelf life. That's why for stuff like pasta or pizza,

00:19if you are making it at home, you do want to shred your own cheese because it's just going

00:23to melt a little better because it doesn't have those anti-caking agents.

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