Arla Foods Ingredients wins 2022 Breakthrough Award for Dairy Ingredient Innovation
The company developed Lacprodan BLG-100, a dairy-derived high-leucine ingredient that shows much promise for medical and sports nutrition applications.
Each year, the Elmhurst, Ill.-based American Dairy Products Institute (ADPI) and Dairy Foods put the spotlight on dairy ingredient accomplishments by honoring a dairy processing member of ADPI with the Breakthrough Award for Dairy Ingredient Innovation.
Back in 2016, Arla Foods Ingredients — our 2022 Breakthrough Award for Dairy Ingredient Innovation honoree — was in the midst of developing a new dairy-based product when its research and development (R&D) team discovered that a pilot feed tank was full of an unexpected white substance. Lab tests identified the substance as pure beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) crystals. Although the R&D team solved the production problem, the team wondered if the knowledge gained could be used to commercially produce pure BLG, according to Niels Østergaard, R&D vice president for the Denmark-based company (with U.S. headquarters in Basking Ridge, N.J.).