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Ice cream novelties

Friendly’s Ice Cream launches Pop Tart ice cream sandwiches

May 7, 2016

The Pop Tart ice cream sandwiches are available for a limited time and sold at Friendly’s restaurants.

Consumers are sweet on savory dairy products

Dairy processors are adding spicy peppers, herbs and other botanical ingredients to dairy foods. What’s going on? Our panel says consumers’ desire for more flavor, more stimulation and more experience is behind the trend.

Kimberly Decker

May 6, 2016

If there’s a universal truth we can all count on, it’s that America’s three favorite ice-cream flavors will always be vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. Right? Wrong. Per the International Dairy Foods Association, Washington, D.C., our top three picks last year were vanilla, chocolate and butter pecan.

Meet the rock stars of Comfy Cow ice cream

James Carper

May 4, 2016

Seven years ago Tim and Roy Koons-McGee opened up one ice cream parlor in Louisville, Ky. This year they are on pace to have 11 scoop shops and 300 grocery stores carrying pints of their super-premium ice cream.

Designer kefir

Lifeway teams with designer Cynthia Rowley to launch limited-edition kefir flavor

The new spring Hibiscus Rhubarb Pie kefir flavor features a Rowley-designed label

May 3, 2016

Lifeway partnered with designer Cynthia Rowley to introduce a limited-edition Hibiscus Rhubarb Pie kefir flavor for spring and a bottle designed by Rowley.

New dairy products: Sargento Foods' new snacking cheeses

May 3, 2016

Sargento Foods, Plymouth, Wis., added another snacking cheese option to its line with Snack Bites

Kefir

Dairy product spotlight: Cupful grass-fed kefir

April 22, 2016

Cupful, a grass-fed kefir from Rye Fresh Inc., is made with natural ingredients and comes in drinkable and cup varieties.

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A monster mash

Summer ice cream flavors from Baskin-Robbins include sour, hot peppers

A donut ice cream sandwich could be rolled out nationwide. The concept flavor combination was tested in Las Vegas and near Baltimore.

April 15, 2016

Ice cream retailer Baskin-Robbins invited the media to sample new flavors and flavor combinations that will appear in stores this summer.

Extend your reach with ESL products

The advantages of manufacturing extended shelf life milks include increased plant efficiency, reduced distribution costs and reduced product returns.

April 15, 2016

If Frank Otis could add four to five days more shelf life to his organic milk, it would mean a world of difference. The CEO of Crystal Creamery, Modesto, Calif., said he could then service accounts in Los Angeles, 300 miles to the south.

David Rogers, Dan Flavin and Alyssa Stone stand inside the Standard Market cheese cave

Aging in place

Video: At Standard Market's cheese cave, fresh product becomes aged cheese

Standard Market received two awards from the American Cheese Society for a LaClare Farms Chandoka aged in its cave.

April 14, 2016

Cave-aging cheese adds value. But when a cheesemaker doesn’t have the space or the time to age its own cheese, it turns to an outside service. Meet Standard Market of Westmont, Ill.

Pumps and valves play an important role in food safety

FSMA finally takes effect in September. Make sure your production team understands the role pumps and valves play in ensuring food safety, and how to clean and maintain them properly.

April 14, 2016

In anticipation of the long-discussed Food Safety Modernization Act finally becoming enforceable in September, we asked equipment suppliers about the role pumps and valves play in assuring food safety in dairy processing plants. Here’s what they had to say about this subject in our virtual roundtable.