A 1951 ad. The FDA informed Kraft in 2002 it could no longer market Velveeta as a cheese. The Kraft Heinz Company The year was 1916, and Jacob Weisl, owner of the Monroe Cheese Company of Monroe ...

Read more: 6 Canned Meats You Should Be Eating And 6 To Avoid You might wonder, then, if Velveeta is the same as American cheese, but packaged under a different brand name. However, it is not the ...