yogurt
Inspiration for yogurt category
Organic dairy Rachel’s has launched the Inspirations yogurt range with a choice of two flavours: apple and butterscotch and cherry and dark chocolate. The new range contains only organic ingredients, locally sourced milk and no artificial colourings, flavours or preservatives. Daniel Wheeler, marketing manager at Rachel’s, comments, “Whilst we know that 32% of yogurt consumption […]
Breakfast snackification
Companies with ambitions in breakfast should not rule out NPD ideas as consumer habits are changing, writes Julian Mellentin, director of New Nutrition Business.
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INGREDIENTS: Weekly round-up
Here is your weekly round-up of Ingredients news. If you have a news item you would like to submit for next week’s round-up, please contact Carly Wood at carly@bellpublishing.com. Snacks that are healthy, tasty and easy to consume are set to shape the future of how people eat and drink, according to Arla Foods Ingredients. […]
New sports yogurt solution
Arla Foods Ingredients has developed a whey protein for creating yogurt-based sports nutrition products to appeal to active consumers who prefer not to use traditional gels and shakes. The Nutrilac solution is said to make it easy to produce delicious drinking sports yogurts with a pleasant taste and texture, just like a standard drinking yogurt […]
INGREDIENTS: Weekly round-up
Here is your weekly round-up of ingredients news. If you have a news item you would like to submit for next week’s round-up, please contact Carly Wood at carly@bellpublishing.com. DSM has published a Global Insight paper, stating that consumers demand dairy products such as yogurt prepared with simple and familiar ingredients Premium Ingredients is presenting […]
Demand for artificial ingredient-free yogurt
DSM has published a Global Insight paper, stating that consumers demand dairy products such as yogurt prepared with simple and familiar ingredients. Based on a survey, carried out in countries as varied as China, US, Brazil and Turkey, the results reveal that consumers are actively looking for these ‘clean label’ products made with fewer, more […]
New cultures keep mild products fresh
DuPont has unveiled an expanded lineup of the Holdbac Protective cultures range to target contamination in the mild acidic environments of cheese and fresh yogurt manufacture while maintaining flavour. Holdbac YM-XP Protective cultures are designed to provide optimum protection against yeast and mould, specifically in the mild acidic pH conditions typical in cheese and mild yogurt. […]
Arla Foods Ingredients reboots smoothies
Arla Foods Ingredients has launched a new ingredient concept that makes it easy to produce healthy, convenient and environmentally friendly Greek-style yoghurt smoothies that are rich in both protein and real fruit. Nutrilac YO-8075 is a natural whey protein derived from cow’s milk. It gives manufacturers the ability to use their existing equipment to formulate […]
New glaze-based fruit pieces
Herza Schokolade has developed a new ingredient line – glaze-based fruit pieces. With a variety of colours and flavours available, they open up many different creative product possibilities. There are ten flavours: pineapple, banana, cassis, green apple, cherry, coconut, lime, mango, orange and lemon. They are available as single ingredients or as individual combinations of […]
Greek yogurt process promises an end to 1 million tons of acid whey
Greek yogurt manufacturers could cut their acid whey output by a collective 1 million tons a year simply by converting it into value-added dairy products, according to Arla Foods Ingredients. Arla Foods Ingredients has developed a processing solution – based on a Nutrilac protein derived from milk – that enables producers of Greek yogurt to use their acid […]
Softer stance on health claims
According to Innova Market Research, interest in healthy options appears to be continuing unabated. This is despite cutbacks in consumer expenditure and problems in some countries with regard to health claims legislation. Nearly 40% of the global launches recorded by Innova Market Insights in 2013 were positioned on a health platform of some kind, mainly […]
Germany’s feel for yogurt
Yogurt consumption in Germany is growing almost twice as fast as other dairy products; a trend that is set to continue. According to a new report from Canadean, the taste and texture of yogurt is more important than price and calorie count. Yogurt is set to grow fast in the otherwise fairly slow growing and […]
Greiner Packaging develops yogurt packaging for men
Danone is expanding the line of yogurt products for men, which was trialled in Bulgaria. In a number of studies, Danone Bulgaria concentrated on the taste preferences of Bulgarian men in yogurt consumption. The major findings revealed that men in Bulgaria particularly like yogurt products with thick consistency, high fat content, and a distinctive taste. […]
WhiteWhey introduced as alternative to annatto
Chr Hansen, a global bioscience company that develops natural ingredients, has introduced a new cheese colouring product that enables producers of cheddar and gouda cheese to get more value from their whey while maintaining an aesthetically-pleasing appearance of their cheese products. Whey – the liquid remaining after milk has been coagulated and drained – is […]