Taking a page from Starbucks’ playbook, new seasonal and limited-edition flavors are showing up across the dairy categories. Whether it's fall flavors like pumpkin spice or gingerbread for the holiday season, processors are jumping on this new trend.
Chobani, New Berlin, N.Y., started its limited batch seasonal line with summer flavors like watermelon. This fall the company released its two new limited-batch flavors in time for the fall/winter season — pumpkin spice and apple cinnamon…read more.
Dannon, White Plains, N.Y., added seasonal options in its Oikos Greek yogurt line with a pumpkin pie flavor on shelves until December, followed by a gingerbread flavor for the holidays, beginning in December into early January. In its Light & Fit Greek line it added a caramel apple pie flavor, available until December.