Ingredients for Dairy Processors

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Immune health will continue to drive food and beverage purchases in 2022.

New equipment and ingredients from Balchem Human Nutrition & Health, Danfoss, GEA, and more!

Inclusions — visible ingredients that add extra flavor, texture, and color into a food or beverage product — have been used to jazz up dairy offerings for years. 

New ingredients from Corbion, Cargill, CP Kelco, and more!

It’s no secret that consumers are more health-conscious now than ever before. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated this already fast-growing trend as people re-evaluated their current lifestyles and began taking a more proactive approach to their health and wellbeing. 

In 2021, 72% of consumers were trying to limit or avoid sugar entirely, according to a survey by the International Food Information Council (IFIC). Consuming less sugar will likely remain a key consumer goal in 2022.

New ingredients from Agropur, Cargill, Enzyme Development Corp., and more!

Flavors, colors, sweeteners, and inclusions might be the lead actors in dairy product productions. However, gums, stabilizers, and emulsifiers are the supporting actors that can make — or break — a performance.

When it comes to probiotics and prebiotics, you could say today’s consumers are very pro. In fact, according to a 2020 report from Hyderabad, India-based Mordor Intelligence titled “Probiotics Market — Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact and Forecasts (2021-2026),” the global probiotic market is expected to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.08% during the forecast period of 2020-2025.

Looking at the top 10 list of health positioning for new yogurt products worldwide over the last two years (based on a report from Innova Market Insights), it is a bit surprising that “no-/low-/reduced-fat” tops the list, with “high source of protein” coming in a close second.