Key Takeaways
- Edlong Dairy Technologies introduces Simply Dairy ingredients at the IFT Food Expo in July to meet consumer demand for simple labels and authentic flavors.
- Simply Dairy ingredients enhance richness and creaminess while allowing real dairy to be listed on product labels.
- Initial profiles include butter, cheddar, and Italian styles, with plans for more, suitable for various food applications.
- Edlong provides comprehensive dairy flavor technology support for customers in product development, since 1914.
- The IFT Food Expo serves as a vital networking and knowledge exchange platform for food professionals globally.
In response to consumer demand for simple labels, authentic profiles and premium foods, Edlong Dairy Technologies will be introducing Edlong® Simply Dairy ingredients at the Institute of Food Technologists IFT Food Expo in Chicago. These concentrated dairy ingredients naturally intensify cheese or butter notes, and deliver impactful dairy essences.
Edlong® Simply Dairy ingredients are made from real dairy, and increase richness, creaminess, cheesiness and buttery taste. Unlike flavors, they are listed as their source ingredients on product labels.
“As the leading supplier of dairy flavors, we are adding a new tool to the product developer’s dairy tool kit,” says Laura Parker, Edlong Director of Marketing. “We talk to our customers every day about using dairy flavors as part of their product development tool kit. Edlong® Simply Dairy ingredients give them another option, and expand their ability to create products consumers crave,” she adds.
Initial profiles include butters, cheddars, Italian styles and butter cream profiles, with additional profiles in development. They can be used in a variety of applications including baked goods, cheeses, crackers, dips, desserts, dressings, salty snacks, sauces, soups and more.
About Edlong
Edlong Dairy Technologies is the global food industry’s most comprehensive resource for dairy flavor technologies. Founded in 1914, the company assists customers at every stage of product development, offering technical collaboration, formulation expertise and customized solutions. It also develops and markets Cheese, Butter, Milk, Cream, Cultured, Sweet Dairy and Masking and Mouthfeel flavors, backed by personal, responsive, reliable service. Edlong is a certified Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), one of the National Best & Brightest Companies to Work For® (2014 and 2015) and one of Chicago’s 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For® (2015 and 2016).
About IFT
IFT16 is the largest annual food science forum and exposition in the world. It is the only annual event that brings together the brightest minds and the most respected food professionals from around the world—in industry, government and academia—for knowledge exchange, networking and problem solving.
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