Quark cheese, hardly any remaining from the first minute (5)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

definition: a type of quark in particle physics [wiki] for the surface, quark can also mean a type of soft cheese wordplay: "first" letters from C-[heese] H-[ardly] A-[ny] R-[emaining], plus M (minute)