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Cheese Curds

Dairy and Egg Products

Cheese curds are moist, coagulated pieces of curdled milk formed during the early stages of cheesemaking, eaten alone as a snack or used in prepared dishes rather than aged into a finished cheese. They are especially popular in Wisconsin and Minnesota, where they are often breaded and deep fried, and in Quebec, where they are a defining ingredient of poutine. Cheese curds are sometimes called squeaky cheese, or by the French term fromage en grain.

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Classification
Allergen
Milk 1
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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.

Used By

Poutine, Dishes
Source Poutine (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Cheese curd (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_curd (allergen)
Quote, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_curd (allergen)
Cheese curds are moist pieces of curdled milk, eaten either alone as a snack, or used in prepared dishes.
Poutine (Wikipedia)
WikipediaUsed By: Poutine, Infobox main_ingredient field: French fries, gravy, cheese curdsView the Source
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