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.
Navigate the next dairy frontier
Consumers want it all: indulgent taste and texture, added nutrition, cleaner labels and value. Discover how to balance these competing demands and create dairy and dairy alternative products consumers seek.
E-book: Master the Texture EquationSM
Download our e-book to learn about the essential role of texture in shaping eating experiences and explore category-specific insights and applications.
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?
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.
Explore VITESSENCE® Plant proteins
Derived from peas, VITESSENCE® pulse proteins are designed to help build the right taste, nutritional profile, and consumer-preferred natural and non-soy based claims
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.
Reduced-sugar dairy and dairy alternatives
Indulgent textures, sweet taste and a healthier profile - our solutions for sugar reduction deliver results consumers will love.
Making it plant possible
Discover innovation that allow you to deliver plant-based products that still deliver the tastes and textures consumers expect
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.
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.
VITTESSENCE® Plant proteins
Create protein fortified food with the required functionality, taste and texture
Find the right ingredient for your needs
Discover innovative ingredients that solve your challenges in dairy and dairy alternative formulations.
Contact your Ingredion 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.