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New cream cheese size

New cream cheese size

February 13, 2019
Prairie Farms Dairy Inc., Edwardsville, Ill., expanded its product lineup to include an 8-ounce package of its original cream cheese.
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Keep milk on the table

Keep milk on the table

There’s a strong movement toward plant-based eating. By emphasizing dairy milk’s unique nutrients, the dairy industry can help ensure milk will be a key part of plant-based diets well into the future.
Tammy Anderson-Wise
February 12, 2019
Plant-based diets are gaining traction among consumers, institutions and even government recommended dietary guidelines. Although the health benefits of consuming more vegetables, fruits and plant-based proteins are well-founded, "plant-based" is sometimes misconstrued to mean the elimination of animal-derived foods such as dairy milk.
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The positive side of lactose

Studies are showing that lactose and certain lactose-derived carbohydrates can positively influence gut health
Samuel D. Alcaine
February 11, 2019
When you read the word lactose, what do you think? Does the processor in you wonder what you'll do with so much of it? Does the marketer in you wish of ways to be free of it? Does the consumer in you feel a little bloated?
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Toft Dairy's ice cream operations reflect a heritage of quality

Toft Dairy's ice cream operations reflect a heritage of quality

The ice cream Toft Dairy produces at its Sandusky, Ohio, plant is subject to the high standards the company has had in place for all of its products over the last 119 years
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Kathie Canning
February 8, 2019
Large signs touting "Toft's 'One Quality'" and "Ohio's Oldest Dairy" greet visitors to Toft Dairy's 74,500-square-foot dairy plant/headquarters facility in Sandusky, Ohio. Those two messages amply describe the family-owned company's heritage.
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Consider ice cream mix processing advances

Novel approaches offer the potential to improve ice cream mix processing, but processors will want to keep a close eye on sensory appeal in the evaluation process
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Steven Young
February 7, 2019
Each innovative modification of ice cream mix processing must consider what is to be modified and the influence (+/-) on multiple-unit operations (i.e., assembly of amount/type of ingredients, creation of a uniform mix, pasteurization, homogenization, mix aging). Each operation has its own set of influences (+/-) on the chemistry and physics of any given mix going forward into other downstream processes.
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Organic high-protein milk

Organic high-protein milk

February 6, 2019
Horizon Organic, Broomfield, Colo., introduced the first multi-serve organic protein milk, Horizon Organic High Protein.
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Milk sales take a dive

Even flavored milk and whole milk have been struggling
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Kathie Canning
February 5, 2019
It's no secret that the fluid milk category has been struggling at retail for quite some time. However, sales of flavored milk and whole milk actually made some impressive gains in the not-too-distant past.
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