{"id":12604,"date":"2018-08-20T18:01:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T18:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wp-salerno.59aps.com\/?p=12604"},"modified":"2018-08-20T18:01:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T18:01:38","slug":"what-are-the-crystals-in-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salernodairy.com\/?p=12604","title":{"rendered":"What are the crystals in cheese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calcium Lactate. As cheese ages, the milk solids (largely proteins and fats) become more concentrated and dense, resulting in a harder texture. The crunchiness common in many aged cheeses (Parmigiano Reggiano, aged cheddar or goudas, many hard mountain cheeses) is crystallized calcium lactate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calcium Lactate. As cheese ages, the milk solids (largely proteins and fats) become more concentrated and dense, resulting in a harder texture. The crunchiness common in many aged cheeses (Parmigiano Reggiano, aged cheddar or goudas, many hard mountain cheeses) is crystallized calcium lactate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salernodairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salernodairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salernodairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salernodairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salernodairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.salernodairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12605,"href":"https:\/\/www.salernodairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604\/revisions\/12605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salernodairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salernodairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salernodairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}