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Colby Cheese

Dairy and Egg Products

Colby cheese is a semi-hard American cow milk cheese first made in 1885 near Colby, Wisconsin, from which it takes its name. It is produced by a washed-curd process similar to cheddar but is not pressed as firmly and is not aged as long, giving it a softer texture, milder flavor and more open, moist consistency than cheddar. Colby is often blended with Monterey Jack to produce the marbled cheese known as Colby-Jack.

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Allergen
Milk 1
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Milk, Ingredients

Carries Allergen

Milk, Ingredients

Entity-backed identity for the allergen value this ingredient already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a ingredient entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

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Sources
1. Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 Annex II, Substances or Products Causing Allergies or Intolerances
Annex II identity match by ingredient composition
Wikidata: Colby Cheese
Wikidata Q1056769, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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