With Mediterranean foods becoming increasingly popular among mainstream Americans, the time was right for Best Cheese Corp., Mount Kisco, N.Y., to introduce the Epirus brand of authentic Greek cheeses.
The prevalence of lactose intolerance — real or perceived — continues to increase around the world, and in response, all types of food formulators have made “lactose free” a priority in their product development endeavors.
Dutch cheese specialist Vandersterre Groep International B.V., adds two premium natural cheeses to its globally recognized Landana brand, which will likely soon be imported into the United States along with other Landana favorites.
Schreiber Foods Inc., Green Bay, Wis., a licensee of the Weight Watchers brand owned by the New York-based namesake company, introduces White Cheddar-flavored pasteurized process cheese product. Each 0.67-gram wedge packs 2 grams of protein into 30 calories.
New Opaa! brand feta spreads from Grecian Delight Foods Inc., Elk Grove Village, Ill., rely on cows milk feta cheese as a base ingredient, to which an array of spices and vegetable pieces are added for some kick.
Win Schuler Foods, Southfield, Mich., introduced Lia Marie’s Original Garlic Spread and Five Cheese Garlic Spread. Both spreads, which are made with butter and cheese, among other ingredients, are available in 12-ounce tubs and merchandised near butter in the refrigerated dairy case.
Elk Grove Village, Ill.-based Bel Brands USA, a subsidiary of Fromageries Bel, a family-owned cheesemaker headquartered in Paris, extends its world-renowned Boursin Gournay cheese brand to flavored premium spreadable cheeses. Garlic & Herbs (the flavor of the original Boursin cheese) was the first to debut about a year ago.
For a child in the 1980s, string cheese was the ultimate must-have lunch snack. The simple act of peeling strings away from a cylindrical-shaped “stick” was both exciting and innovative and transformed the way consumers eat cheese.