Dairy and dairy alternatives
Create consumer-winning dairy products with Ingredion
Make your dairy formulation goals a reality
Whether you’re looking for cost optimisation through ingredient replacement or pushing ahead with healthier recipes or cleaner labels – sensory appeal plays a vital role in driving category differentiation. That’s our forte and we’re here to help your dairy portfolio stand out in a crowded market. Ingredion can help you keep pace with the latest consumer-driven trends and significantly reduce product development times.
We do this using our application know-how to advise you on the unique capabilities of starch solutions in the dairy sector. Our partnership approach is built around helping you find the delicious balance between cost, quality and speed to market.
Overcome your formulation challenges with Ingredion
Ingredion combine science-based problem solving expertise with an extensive range of innovative ingredient solutions to help manufacturers in the dairy sector overcome the most critical formulation challenges.
- Reducing costs, maintaining texture: reduce costs by replacing expensive ingredients such as fat, protein or dairy solids in yoghurts or custards with our functional starches, without compromising taste or texture.
- Going clean label: our dairy specialists and chefs can help you cater to the latest clean label and free-from trends and advise you as to which of our clean label ingredients meets your specific needs.
- Enhancing texture: create differentiated texture in dairy to help you stand out from the competition and have consumers come back for more time and time again.
- Improving nutritional profile: meet another consumer trend for healthier foods by reducing fat or sugar but maintaining the rich, indulgent textures and taste consumers love.
- Tapping into the plant-based market: develop satisfying dairy alternatives, with right taste and texture, that appeal to health-conscious and environmentally aware consumers
- Sugar reduction: indulgent textures, sweet taste and a healthier profile - our solutions for sugar reduction deliver results consumers will love.
Be part of the plant-based revolution
With demand for delicious plant-based food and drink increasing, there is a prime opportunity to tap in and deliver ROI for your business. Are you ready?
Creating in-demand dairy products
Formulating dairy products today is as much about what consumers don’t want, as what they do. Our brochure simply explains how to keep them satisfied. To learn how to create products with the label claims consumers want, and the eating experience they enjoy, get the brochure now.
Ingredion’s plant proteins recognised for sustainability excellence
Our Ultra Performance line of plant-based protein solutions has been named the Best Plant-Based Sustainability winner during the 2022 World Plant-Based Awards. This better tasting, more sustainable product line provides great versatility in a variety of applications.
Guide: The Business of Clean Label
With the clean label category set to be valued at over $50 billion by 2024, it’s a mega trend food producers can’t afford to ignore. Consumer demand for clean label is well documented, but some manufacturers may be unaware that a clean label approach makes sound business sense too. Incorporating clean label can support your commercial drivers and deliver healthy business returns.
Introducing VITESSENCE® Pulse protein concentrates for dairy alternative applications
Derived from pea and faba bean, VITTESSENCE® Prista's designed to help you build the right taste, nutritional profile, and consumer-preferred natural and non-soy based claims.
VITESSENCE® Prista pulse protein concentrates attributes
A revolutionary line of ultra-performance pulse concentrates for pristine taste and functionality
VITESSENCE® Prista pulse protein - Dairy alt applications
From plant-based yoghurts to cheese analogues. VITESSENCE® Prista is meeting consumer expectations, without compromise on sensory, indulgence, and clean label.
VITTESSENCE® Pulse proteins
Create plant-protein enhanced food without the plant flavour, bitter taste or uncontrolled microbial levels inherent in dry-milled pulse products.
Power Up Your Plate Webinar
Alternatives don’t have to be different. Join Chef Kevin from our kitchen as he explores market opportunities with dairy-free, plant-based alternatives, to inspire your next big breakthrough.
Making it plant possible
Discover innovation that allow you to deliver plant-based products that still deliver the tastes and textures consumers expect
Vegan yoghurt
Create delicious, protein-enriched plant-based yoghurts
Plant-based sandwich slice
3.0 % protein, meltable a cheese analogue made possible with Vitessence Prsta
View Concept Recipes
Ingredion’s new recipe innovations your guided steps to start creating products with your existing machinery. So that you can deliver plant-based products that help your consumers save the planet, one bite at a time.
Reduced-sugar dairy and dairy alternatives
Indulgent textures, sweet taste and a healthier profile - our solutions for sugar reduction deliver results consumers will love.
Taste Sweet Liberation
Are you feeling the pressure to reduce sugar content but don’t know where to start? Are you worried about the impact on taste, texture, affordability and clean label? Ingredion can help you break free.
With our formulation capabilities and broad ingredient portfolio, you can develop great tasting products that are low in sugar and high in consumer appeal. Freedom from sugar never tasted so good.
Ready to taste the possibilities?
Experience the amazing results of our sugar reduction solutions for yourself with one of our exclusive tasting kits
Each kit contains a delicious no added sugar fruit prep, along with an indulgent sugar-reduced, vegan coconut dessert.
All you have to do is open and enjoy.
Inspiring reduced sugar ideas
Delve into our new concept book to discover how to use our ingredient solutions to create your own delicious, reduced sugar desserts, yoghurts, ice cream and much more. With a breakdown of nutritional content, potential on-pack claims and NutriScore ranking, it’s crammed with invaluable technical and commercial insights.
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Sign up to receive email alerts from Ingredion’s dedicated sugar reduction team. You’ll be the first to know about our latest sugar reduction ingredient solutions, upcoming events, delicious new recipe ideas and much more.
Contact your Ingredion sugar reduction experts today
Extensive formulation capabilities. Broad portfolio of on-trend sweeteners, flavour modifiers and texturisers. Market research and consumer insights. Discover how we can help you develop what’s next in reduced sugar dairy and dairy alternatives.
Find the right ingredient for your needs
Discover innovative ingredients that solve your challenges in dairy and dairy alternative formulations.