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Arla Foods Releases Dairy Support Ingredient

March 5, 2023

Arla Foods Ingredient has launched an ingredient toolbox to support dairy producers in South America, in the cream cheese market.

Dairy Manufacturing Ingredient

June 10, 2022

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

IFF has introduced two new Holdback bioprotective cultures for dairy manufacturing. These protective culture are made of specially selected microorganisms that deliver lasting freshness up to and beyond ‘best before’ dates, the company says. As natural solutions, they also enable manufacturers to offer a consumer-friendly product label. HOLDBAC YM Sustain...

Carbon-Neutral Food Company Gains Celeb Backing

April 28, 2022

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Portland, Oregon—Neutral Foods, a carbon-neutral food company, announced funding with several celebrity investors who support the company's vision for developing a more sustainable food system. Among the backers: NBA stars Lebron James and Kevin Love, musicians John Legend and Questlove, and author Emily Ratajkowski. The new investors will be joined...

Collab Between Danone, FrieslandCampina Results in 17% GHG Reduction

January 31, 2022

Julia Peterman

A three-year collaboration between FrieslandCampina and Danone has led to a 17% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to a press release. The reduction was accomplished mostly by FrieslandCampina’s dairy farmers implementing sustainable farming practices and green energy projects for the ingredients provided to Danone. FrieslandCampina used the Annual...

Danone Agrees to Help Mitigate Damage Caused by Pulling Out of Northeast

December 15, 2021

Julia Peterman

Danone North America, owner of Horizon Organic, will meet one of the requests of Northeast organic producer groups, in order to mitigate the damage resulting from Danone’s decision to move its milk sourcing to the west, a decision which leaves 89 organic dairies in the northeast without a market. As...

Dairy Farmers Ask Danone Not to End Decades-Old Contracts

October 29, 2021

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

October 27, 2021—Nine organic organizations representing organic farmers and consumers delivered two petitions with 15,234 signatures asking Danone North America, owner of Horizon Organic, not to leave the northeast, which would leave 89 dairy farm families without a market. Specifically, 13,020 people signed a national petition, while a state-focused Maine...

Sour Cream Products

October 8, 2021

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Good Culture has launched a suite of new products: Lactose Free Cottage Cheese, Squeezable Lactose Free Sour Cream Pouch, Lactose Free Sour Cream Tub, and Squeezable Whole Milk Classic Sour Cream Pouch. The products are made with pasture-raised milk sourced from small family farms, and gut-friendly live and active cultures,...

Enzyme Solution for Dairy Products

July 1, 2021

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

IFF has debuted Nurica, a lactase enzyme solution that, when added to dairy milk, naturally transforms existing lactose into prebiotic galactooligosaccharide fibers. The company states that in application trials, Nurica has shown no detectable negative impact on product quality.

Organic Valley Hits Record $1.2B in Sales

June 11, 2021

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

La Farge, WI—Organic Valley announced that it experienced consolidated sales growth of 4.5% in 2020. The exact number? Recorded sales reached $1.2 billion. Compared to 2019, the nation’s largest organic farmer-owned cooperative improved consolidated net income by $48.4 million in 2020. Attributing it partially to the chaos in conventional dairy...

Organic Valley Farms Reports Lower-Than-Average Carbon Footprints

May 25, 2021

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

La Farge, WI—Organic Valley announced the results of its phase one life cycle assessment (LCA) designed to evaluate on-farm greenhouse gas emissions conducted by University of Wisconsin-Madison. The assessment revealed that, on average, the dairy farms of Organic Valley’s members have a smaller carbon footprint than average U.S. conventional and...