Retail sector
In the U.S. retail sector, total sales for natural cheese, cheese produced with no additives or preservatives, amounted to about 11.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. The total soft cream cheese category brought in sales amounting to about 322 million U.S. dollars in the United States for the 12 weeks ended in January 2023. Shredded cheese was the best-selling cheese form in the United States, accounting for over 5.6 billion U.S. dollars of cheese sales in 2022.Cheese consumption
Over the past ten years, U.S. per capita consumption of cheese has increased by over five pounds. The average consumers in the U.S. ate about 40.3 pounds of cheese in 2021. That year, Americans consumed about 16.1 pounds of American cheese per capita and 15.64 pounds of Italian cheese per capita. That year the Italian cheese consumption per capita was about 15.83 pounds. The wholesale prices of cheese in the United States in 2023 amounted to 1.95 U.S. dollars per pound. This figure is expected to decrease to 1.85 U.S. dollars by 2032.
