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Both Sonali Raghunath and Pratishtha Verma are active committee members of IFT’s Dairy Foods Division, with Verma leading the resource library and dairy food magazine teams and Raghunath managing its social media presence. 

As the name implies, mixed milk cheeses are produced by blending any combination of cow, sheep, and/or goat milk. These cheeses provide an opportunity for cheesemakers to produce products with unique flavor profiles. 

The goodness of dairy’s nine essential nutrients can be delivered in myriad ways: as milk, cheese, yogurt, protein powders, fermented milk drinks, ice cream, and more.

Milk proteins, one of milk's macroconstituents, encompass two principal types of proteins: casein (CN) and whey protein (WP). 

One of the largest opportunities in the United States is amplifying the role of healthy eating patterns in achieving health equity and nutrition security. 

We have seen some very dramatic fluctuations in dairy farm input costs in the past four years, and while some costs have come down, not all of them have and most remain elevated compared to pre-pandemic levels.

The world was stunned when 42-year-old Princess Kate announced that she was being treated for cancer after abdominal surgery that required a two-week hospital stay. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates food and color additives and food contact materials, but non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are pressuring state legislatures to ban some of these substances previously approved by the FDA for specific conditions of use without the level of science needed to support such action. 

Once widely accepted as a necessary staple for growing children, dairy foods have faced concern over fat and sugar content and pressure from a range of plant-based beverages perceived as healthy and sustainable alternatives. 

We are most often asked how many “types” or “styles” of ice cream exist? In the simplest of terms, no matter the style, ice cream (and frozen dessert variants, thereof,) is the only food designed, formulated, manufactured, marketed, and sold with the express intent of being consumed frozen.