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Make Anuga 2019 your Dairy Foods Innovation Destination, October 5-9 in...
Anuga, the world’s leading food fair for the retail trade and the foodservice and catering markets, celebrates 100 years of food innovation since its first exposition in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1919. A...
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Reducing Sugar in Dairy Products Often Requires a Multi-Prong Approach
Less sugar is the norm. Consumers are reading labels and many use the sugar—and added sugar--content of foods as basis for the decision to purchase and consume. The International Food Information...
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Gen Z Requires Dairy Processors to Push the Boundaries of Innovation
Photo source: SynergyGeneration Z was born somewhere between the mid-1990s and about 2015 (years are still to be decided). It’s the world’s youngest and largest consumer group and they have real food...
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Give your Yogurt Personality, a Purpose, a Meaning
Earlier this week, one of America’s most beloved caramel brands, Werther’s Original, announced it was rolling out new brand creative that adds more relevancy to what consumers feel when they enjoy a...
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Dairy Foods Innovation Opportunity: Prioritize Protein and Portability in...
It’s back-to-school time. And here’s some great news as you market and continue to develop products for kids. Protein currently is parents’ number-one priority when it comes to feeding their...
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Dairy Foods Rule: A Simple Explanation on Why Cows—their meat and milk—Are...
The U.S. Dairy Export Council sponsored the U.S. Dairy Health & Fitness Innovation Seminar in Singapore on Sept. 27, 2019. Nearly 100 Southeast Asian innovators attended to hear a number of us...
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Pumpkin-flavored Dairy Foods Simply Make Sense
Photo source: Starbucks Corp.Pumpkin everything is back. Pumpkin-flavored foods and beverages are bountiful in the U.S. It’s impossible to ignore them. Retailers turn them into special displays...
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Dairy Foods Messaging: Emphasize the Simple, the Delicious and the Quality...
It was a busy week of conferences and expositions. Bakers were in Vegas while natural products people headed to Baltimore. A select group gathered in Chicago for Hartman Group’s Food Culture Forecast...
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Dairy Foods Innovation: The Power of the Package
We shop with our eyes. You might have the most amazing dairy food innovation, but if the package does not attract, it likely will not be purchased. Looks matter.It’s surprising how so many innovators...
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Dairy Foods Innovation: A Sneak Peek to the Flavors and Colors of Foods and...
Photo source: My two-year-old great nephew enjoying whole milk. His beverage of choice!Vegan leather. I just have to share this new phrase I learned yesterday from a friend’s daughter raving about the...
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Anuga 2019: Five Key Takeaways from the Global Food Innovation Stage
Anuga 2019, Cologne, Germany, October 5-8, 2019. I walked more than 60,000 steps over three days. My tracking device said this was about 25 miles and I did not even make it through the international...
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Go Lactose Free to Reduce Added Sugars and Keep Dairy in the Diet
Real or perceived, a growing number of consumers claim to be lactose intolerant. As a result, they avoid all dairy products. Processors are discovering that eliminating lactose—a disaccharide unique to...
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Shaking Up the Dairy Department
Many of you were born into the dairy industry. You were raised on a farm and milked cows daily. Others of us chose dairy as a career because we believe in the nutritional value of cows’ milk and have...
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Dairies Doing Non-Dairy
Dairy is not going away, but the industry will continue to see encroachment from plant-based alternatives, explained Phil Plourd, president, Blimling and Associates, and president of the services...
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Milk Accelerator Winners Announced
Last night, Nov. 7, 2019, the nine finalists competing in the California Milk Advisory Board’s (CMAB) Real California Milk Accelerator dairy startup competition presented their products and pitched...
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Dairy Protein Completes Plant-based Foods
During the past three months I have given numerous presentations around the world regarding the power of U.S. dairy ingredients, providing the audience with innovative uses of dairy...
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Dairy Foods 2020: The Fads, the Trends and What Really Matters—Insights for...
Photo source: AmazonIt’s that time of year when we frequently hear the question: Do you believe in Santa? I pose the question: Do you believe in the magic of dairy? I do. And here’s why.When I started...
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Dairy Foods Flavor Forecast 2020
As the year starts to wind down, food and beverage market analysts issue forecasts for macro trends that will drive innovation. I take those trends and combine them with the knowledge gained throughout...
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Want to Keep Dairy Relevant in 2020? Mama Got This.
Happy New Year! It’s only 10 days into 2020 and wowza, what more can happen? The world is in chaos while the fluid milk industry is in a state of flux. Coke now owns fairlife and Elsie is hoping the...
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Make Dairy Special with these Five Opportunities
The Winter Fancy Food Show starts this Sunday. It’s a good reminder of how special dairy foods can be when prepared, packaged, merchandised and marketed as premium products.Research shows that while...
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