Korall (russian: Коралл) is a Russian

processed cheese Processed cheese (also known as process cheese, cheese food, prepared cheese, cheese product, or plastic cheese) is a food product made from cheese and unfermented dairy ingredients mixed with emulsifiers. Additional ingredients, such as vegeta ...

with a shrimp flavoring. The cheese production began in

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times. Today the brand has no single owner, and is produced by several companies. The cheese is characteristically pink and is soft. Spices are often added to the cheese, just as

black pepper Black pepper (''Piper nigrum'') is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, known as a peppercorn, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit is a drupe (stonefruit) which is about in diame ...

to accompany the taste of shrimp and black pepper. Korall contains 60% fat and no more than 2% salt, and around 10% protein fish paste. On the cover of the white polystyrene boxes it is sold in is the image of a

crayfish Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans belonging to the clade Astacidea, which also contains lobsters. In some locations, they are also known as crawfish, craydids, crawdaddies, crawdads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, rock lobsters, mu ...

and it is packaged in boxes of 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 g, as well as in tubes.

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