Ingredients for Dairy ProcessorsOther Ingredients

Bluegrass Ingredients introduces vegan cheez concentrate

Company released a total of nearly 20 products.

Bluegrass Ingredients Inc. released nearly 20 new dairy concentrate product offerings, including a vegan-friendly cheez concentrate product.

“Dairy concentrates provide an innovative solution for food brands looking to increase efficiency and predictability in sourcing and manufacturing without sacrificing flavor,” said Hoyt Huffman, CEO at Bluegrass Ingredients. “Our expanded portfolio of concentrates products offers a wide range of flavors that can be used to create more intense tastes at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional cheese and dairy ingredients.”

Introduced were:

Cheddar Cheese Ingredient
Natural Cream Flavor
Romano Cheese Ingredient
Parmesan Cheese Ingredient
Strong Cheese Cracker Concentrate
Strong Sour Cream Type Concentrate
Strong American Cheese Concentrate
Strong Cheddar Cheese Concentrate
Strong Blue Cheese Concentrate
American Cheese Concentrate
Romano Cheese Concentrate
Parmesan Cheese Concentrate
Blue Cheese Concentrate
Vegan Cheez Concentrate

The vegan cheez concentrate is plant-based with nine ingredients: water, coconut oil, salt, modified food starch, yeast extract, natural flavor, lactic acid, xanthan gum and citric acid.

Bluegrass also introduced butter concentrates, which are also all clean label and Kosher.

Strong Brown Butter Concentrate
Strong Butter Concentrate
Butter Concentrate
Brown Butter Concentrate

“From Italian dishes to queso dips, we’ve seen concentrates become a go-to ingredient for R&D professionals looking to add more intense cheese flavors without adding more cheese, which can be expensive and impact a product’s health profile,” said Peter Losee, vice president of Marketing at Bluegrass Ingredients. “We’re working to stay on the cutting edge of the emerging concentrates market, including offering a vegan cheez formulation.”