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Cream cheese is becoming a powerful vehicle for global flavor fusion, moving far beyond its traditional Western applications, and evolving into a canvas for regional tastes and storytelling, states Mary Wilcox.

Cheese sales growth, while not explosive, continues to show steady year-over-year gains. For the 52 weeks ending Jan. 25, the natural cheese category saw a 2% increase in dollar sales to $21 billion and a 2% rise in unit sales to 5.2 billion, according to Circana.

Fluid milk outperformed its main rival, plant-based beverages, in 2025. While fluid milk sales remained steady, plant-based drink sales fell 6% YoY to 358.4 million gallons. The Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act seeks to boost milk sales in schools, highlighting traditional milk's nutritional benefits amid competition.

Drew DiSpirito and Joe Rotondo, founders of Smearcase, join Dairy Foods for Episode 63 of the "Let’s Talk Dairy" podcast to discuss Smearcase and frozen cottage cheese, also known as FroCo.

Dairy Foods highlights cheesemaking equipment.

We offer the latest ingredients for cheesemaking.

As dairy sales grow, pumps and valves play a vital role—pumps ensure accurate, controlled product transfer, while valves regulate flow, isolate systems, and support cleaning processes.

Keynote session by Poonkodi Tamilmani, Ph.D., director of innovation at Darigold, examines how ultrafiltration is reshaping dairy product development by giving processors greater control over composition, functionality and nutritional positioning.

Longer shelf life depends on the full extended shelf life chain: membranes, heat treatment, hygienic processing and precise cold storage.