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Cream cheese

Cream cheese is a soft, usually mild-tasting fresh cheese made from milk and cream. Cream cheese is not naturally matured and is meant to be consumed fresh, so it differs from other soft cheeses, such as Brie and Neufchâtel. It is more comparable in taste, texture, and production methods to Boursin and mascarpone. Stabilizers, such as carob bean gum and carrageenan, are often added in industrial production. It can also come in several flavors.

Cream

Cream is a dairy product composed of the higher-fat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. The butterfat, which is less dense, rises to the top and is skimmed off, resulting in gravity cream. The industrial production of cream instead uses centrifugal separators to make separator cream. Cream is often sold in grades defined by their butterfat content. It contains high levels of saturated fat, in ascending proportion from light cream to heavy cream.

Cheese

Cheese is a type of dairy product produced in a range of flavors, textures, and forms by curdling of milk, usually from cows, goats or sheep, and sometimes of water buffalo. During production, milk is usually acidified and either the enzymes of rennet or bacterial enzymes with similar activity are added to cause the protein casein to coagulate. The solid curds, consisting of proteins and milkfat, are then separated from the liquid whey and pressed into finished cheese. Some cheeses have aromatic molds on the outer layer or rind, while others have them throughout.

Avocado

The avocado, alligator pear or avocado pear is an evergreen tree in the laurel family (Lauraceae). It is native to the Americas, with archaeological evidence of early human avocado use dating back thousands of years across various regions of Central and South America. It was prized for its large and unusually oily fruit. The native range of avocado extends from Mexico to Peru, encompassing much of Central America and parts of northern and western South America.

cream

Noun

1. The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
2. The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.

Adjective

1. Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

cheese

Noun

1. A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
2. Any particular variety of cheese.

Verb

1. To prepare curds for making cheese.
2. To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

avocado

Noun

1. The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree.
2. The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.

Adjective

1. Of a dull yellowish-green colour.