The clean label trend crosses all food categories. Cocoa and chocolate suppliers discuss how they help dairy processors achieve clean ingredient statements and navigate the rocky shoals of ‘all natural’ claims.
Keep it simple sweetheart and provide helpful information. Dairy foods start with a clean ingredient: milk. The challenge is to explain the source and function of other ingredients without cluttering the label.
Consumers seek foods with clean labels. Dairy processors have a variety of sweetener options to help them achieve an easy-to-pronounce (meaning ‘clean’) ingredient statement.
Consumers desire dairy products that sport a “clean” label — but clean means different things to different people. How can the dairy industry cope with this ambiguous consumer demand?
When science is oversimplified, the resulting messages are often misconstrued and misleading. So it is with food. Consumers have bought into the misguided message that foods are unfit for human consumption if they contain more than five ingredients, ingredients they can’t pronounce or ingredients their grandparents wouldn’t recognize.
Daisy Brand and Hudsonville Ice Cream design easy-to-read packages that signal a clean label or the absence of gluten.
April 13, 2014
Although Greek yogurt and natural cheeses are the stars of the dairy case (as measured by sales figures, at least), it is dowdy cottage cheese that is getting the packaging makeover.
Dairy processors turn to ingredient suppliers for help in writing clean labels and operating green, sustainable business. Suppliers show how to add additional protein into foods and beverages.