Going clean label in challenging dairy conditions

Balancing viscosity, mouthfeel and cost for a yoghurt brand as part of a food manufacturer’s global clean label initiative

Developing a clean label formulation for a well-known yoghurt brand that needed to maintain existing texture and taste so there would be no difference for the consumer.

As part of a global initiative to reformulate its dairy products to clean label and ensure ingredients were consumer-friendly, this dairy company wanted to reformulate a popular yoghurt line. A number of considerations needed to be taken into account, in particular that this would be a quiet clean label transformation. There would be no highlighting the reformulation or that this yoghurt brand was now a cleaner version. The challenge was to recreate the same texture and taste and also to develop a recipe that could be produced on existing manufacturing lines.