String cheese

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An individual string cheese package

Several different types of cheese are known as string cheese.

In Armenia, traditional string cheese is made with a white base. The type of milk used depends on local production methods.^[1] It includes black seeds^[2] and a middle-eastern spice known as mahleb, and it comes in the form of a braided endless loop.^{[citation needed]} The cheese forms strings because of the way it is pulled during processing. There is also Syrian cheese processed this way. Other cheeses are only cut and pressed, not pulled, and don't develop strings.

In the United States, "string cheese" generally refers to snack-sized servings of low-moisture mozzarella. This form of "string cheese" is roughly cylindrical, about 6 inches (15 cm) long and less than 1 inch (2 cm) in diameter. The cheese is cut and packaged, either individually or as a package of several lengths. The cheese used is nearly always a form of mozzarella but may be another semi-soft cheese. This type of string cheese can be eaten by pulling strips of cheese from the cylinder along its length and eating these strings or by biting and chewing, as in a banana.

In Central America, a form known as enredos (plural form of enredo -in Spanish-, literally: tangle), refers to a group of cheeses considered to be a snack food. Note: In Brazil, enredos are Carnival themes.