Ingredients for Dairy Processors

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Better-for-you and better-for-the-environment are two themes driving innovation. Dairy processors enhance foods with antioxidants and vitamins.

It seems that hardly a week goes by without another food company announcing its commitment to sodium reduction, or another group proposing voluntary targets for food producers.

Dairy processors and the foods they make have a pretty good reputation for safety and cleanliness. Aside from news articles about illness traced to consumption of raw milk, recalls of pasteurized fluid milk are not common. Drinking raw milk can be dangerous, especially when the product is mishandled by the purchaser.

Sargento Food Ingredients broadened its Portionables capability to include beverages.

Gelita manufactures and markets collagen proteins. Gelita supplies collagen peptides with proven body-stimulating capabilities, tailor-made gelatines and non- or partly water-soluble collagens.

TICorganic YG Cup Set from Tic Gums is a 100% organic stabilizer for cup set organic yogurt products.

Frutarom USA launches uniK2, a highly bioavailable and potent vitamin K2 MK-7 for use in functional foods and food supplements.

The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition has granted notification of GRAS (generally recognized as safe) for the use of Alltech’s selenized yeast Sel-Plex as a human food additive.

At the recent Natural Products Expo West show in Anaheim, Calif., I was amazed by how many companies promoted new products on the basis of not containing high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS).

Sherbet, water ices and sorbets can very well be forgotten or misunderstood.