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2016 Best New Dairy Products

Our Top 10 best new dairy products of 2016

We picked our favorite dairy products, now it's time for you to vote for yours.

Sarah M. Kennedy

December 1, 2016

Dairy Foods has chosen its 10 best new dairy products of 2016 and is opening up voting to you.

Clarified butter

Grassland Dairy introduces clarified butter in tubs

The butter is 99.9% pure milkfat and rBST-Free.

November 29, 2016

Grassland Dairy adds an rBST-Free, 99.9% pure milkfat, unsalted clarified butter to its line.

Nutritious ice cream

Thrive Frozen Nutrition’s high-protein ‘nutritious’ ice cream

November 23, 2016

Thrive Frozen Nutrition’s ice cream is a high-protein ice cream that contains vitamins, minerals, fiber and probiotics.

State of the Industry 2016: It’s a buyer’s market for dairy ingredients

U.S. dairy processors see fewer exports of their cheese and butterfat products. It’s a different story for milk powders, thanks to demand from Mexico and Asia.

Daniel Zelazik

November 23, 2016

It was not long ago that domestic demand afforded dairy producers a premium for their milk compared to their international counterparts. Similarly, domestic end users of dairy products such as cheese and butter can no longer look to the likes of Europe and New Zealand for cheap fat and protein alternatives.

Ample Hills Creamery Gilmore Girls Ice Cream Pint

Artisan ice cream

Ample Hills Creamery’s Gilmore Girls-themed ice cream

The New York creamery celebrates the popular TV show with new ice cream flavor.

November 21, 2016

Ample Hills Creamery introduces a Gilmore Girls-themed ice cream in pints to celebrate the revival of the TV show on Netflix.

State of the Industry 2016: Ingredients will come clean in 2017

Clean-label formulation can’t come at the expense of functionality. Those in the R&D lab need to consider the ramifications of swapping out traditional ingredients for alternatives.

Kimberly Decker

November 21, 2016

If you were hoping that this clean label thing would have blown over by now, you can keep hoping. Or just throw in the towel and accept it. Market researchers Innova found that in the dairy sector, items with one or more clean-label claims accounted for 49% of 2016’s launches to date, up from 41% in 2015. Innova counted claims related to natural, organic, non-GMO or no-preservatives/additives.

Banana-flavored milk

New dairy products: Sir Bananas low-fat banana-flavored milk

The low-fat milk comes in banana and chocolate banana flavors

November 18, 2016

Whitewave’s Sir Bananas low-fat milk is available in banana and chocolate banana flavors.

State of the Industry 2016: Tea with milk, fruit juice with vegetables are trending

Coffee and milk, tea and milk and fruit juice with vegetables are current trends in the coffee, milk and juice segments.

November 18, 2016

Many fluid milk processors manufacture juices, iced tea and coffee beverages. They have the necessary processing equipment and they have relationships with retailers who often want a second brand or control brand to put in their nondairy refrigerated cases. These nondairy beverages represent additional sales opportunities for a dairy.

Dairy dips

New dairy products: Prairie Farms flavored sour cream-based dips

November 16, 2016

Prairie Farms launches specialty sour cream-based dip in three zesty flavor varieties.

State of the Industry 2016: U.S. butter processors see sales, units increase

U.S. butter processors are finding a strong appetite for butter at home. Export demand, on the other hand, has dried up.

James Carper

November 16, 2016

Retail sales of branded butter showed gains on private label butter in the last year. Though dollar sales of private label butter increased 3.4%, unit sales decreased 1.3%, suggesting that retailers raised prices.