The largest cream cheese subcategory, soft cream cheese, realized a 4.4% dollar sales gain and a 0.4% unit sales increase.

Among the top 10 soft cream cheese brands, plant-based brands Kite Hill and Go Veggie (Galaxy Nutritional Foods Inc.) posted the largest gains, albeit on smallish bases. Kite Hill’s dollar and unit sales jumped 84.9% and 56.3%, respectively. And Go Veggie’s dollar and unit sales climbed 20.6% and 18.2%.

A couple other top 10 brands struggled, however. Plant-based brand Tofutti (Tofutti Brands Inc.) saw dollar sales take a 13.4% dive, while unit sales fell 18.4%. And Crystal Farms, from the company with the same name, saw a 7.9% decrease in dollar sales and a 16.1% decline in unit sales.

Sour cream sales flatten

The sour cream category, meanwhile, lost a slight bit of ground. Dollar sales actually rose 0.3% to $1,252.7 million, but unit sales fell 0.6% to 623.8 million.

The clear winners among the top 10 sour cream brands were Top the Tater (Mid-America Farms) and Hood (HP Hood LLC). Dollar sales and unit sales for Top the Tater both surged 9.7%, while dollar and unit sales for Hood increased 8.7% and 6.6%, respectively.

Taking the biggest tumbles were Breakstone’s (The Kraft Heinz Co.) and Dean’s (Dean Foods). Breakstone’s dollar sales fell 10.1%, while unit sales dropped 10.9%. And Dean’s dollar and unit sales decreased 7.4% and 9.8%, respectively.

Yogurt, kefir, cottage cheese down

Meanwhile, the largest cultured dairy products category, refrigerated yogurt, continued to struggle, although the situation wasn’t as grim as it was in the previous 52-week period. Dollar sales in the category fell 0.7% to $7,149.3 million. Unit sales took a 4.2% nosedive to 4,072.3 million. (IRI doesn’t break down the yogurt data into individual brands.)

The refrigerated kefir category lost more ground, too. Dollar sales fell 0.8% to $92.9 million, while unit sales dropped 4.8% to 27.8 million.

But five kefir brands among the top 10 still managed to post double-digit growth. Of those, the plant-based brand Forager Project by the company of the same name racked up the biggest increases: Its dollar sales rose 178.5%, and its unit sales increased 163.4% (albeit on a small base).

On the flip side, Wallaby Organic (Wallaby Yogurt Co.) recorded the steepest decline, with dollar sales falling 29.5% and unit sales dropping 28.2%.

Meanwhile, dollar sales in the cottage cheese category tumbled 3.8% to $1,033.9 million. Unit sales dropped 4.0% to 422.0 million.

Only two of the top 10 cottage cheese brands posted positive results. Hood posted dollar and unit sales increases of 12.0% and 15.2%, respectively. And the Prairie Farms brand (Prairie Farms Dairy Inc.) saw a 1.1% rise in dollar sales and a 3.3% jump in unit sales.