Process recipe cheese products have been developed to provide a healthy alternative to in standard process cheeses. Such process recipe cheese products may include a number of benefits, such as providing lower saturated fat, varying ingredient diversity, and the like. However, doing so may negatively impact consumer acceptance of these products as the process recipe cheese product may not perform similar to process cheese, i.e., have sufficient firmness to maintain desired shapes, ability to cut without excessive stickiness, and ability to melt in various hot applications.