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Dairy flavours
and ingredients
Milk's organoleptic properties
classes continue to develop a taste for
ZUEGG COM – Creating market
leaders in Food & Beverage
combined with its healthy halo make
fruit yogurts, Africa's yogurt
dairy products a desirable ingredient in
producers need to keep pace with this
Zuegg Com, a northern Italian firm with
all types of foods. Formulators seeking
increase in demand by investing in
a mission to help Africa's food &
dairy flavour profiles not only
new technologies, R&D and establish
beverage companies realise their true
formulate with the “real” thing in order
new relationships within the global
potential, has found a solution to this
to make claims such as “made with
supply chain. Only such investments
problem by creating a type of fruit
cheddar cheese” or “contains real
will allow them to benefit from the
preparation that does not require a
milk,” they will often include dairy
strong growth of demand for quality
cooled supply chain and can be stored
ingredients designed to provide a
fruit yogurts in their home markets.
at room temperature. Zuegg Com's
boost of dairy top notes. Sometimes
Unfortunately for many yogurt
fruit preparation is easy to use as it
such dairy flavours are even used in
producers the issues of handling the
simply needs to be mixed with the white
applications where dairy is not a
fruit preparations that are required
yogurt in order to create a high quality
characterizing flavour, but without the
when creating fruit yogurts are too
fruit yogurt with real fruit content. This
dairy ingredient, the overall flavour
complex and they are unable to
major breakthrough finally allows
does not taste complete.
benefit from their customer base's
African yogurt producers to supply their
The ingredients likely would not be
demand, leaving the market to foreign
local customers with a real range of
consumed alone, as their concentrated
imports.
fruit yogurts and benefit from their
sensory profile may be overwhelming.
Complications arise mostly from the
home market's strong growth.
When used in food products, they
fact that a key requirement for
Lukas Zuegg of Zuegg Com has told
deliver either very distinguishable
handling the fruit preparation is
Fa r m e r s Re v i e w A f r i c a t h a t h i s
flavor profiles, such as buttery, creamy
missing in local markets – a cooled
company is already receiving very
and cheesy, or provide subtle dairy
supply chain. This cooled supply chain
strong interest from the entire
notes, including astringency, moldy or
is what keeps the fruit preparation
continent and is looking forward to
pungent.
from spoiling during transport,
helping African yogurt producers, from
Dairy-derived flavours are as varied as
storage and production at the factory.
small farmers' collectives to large
their applications. They may be
Furthermore, as fruit processors are
corporations, to benefit from the strong
liquids, powders, pastes or slurries.
used to sell large volumes, they will
growth in their markets and create real
Sometimes they appear on ingredient
not satisfy many producers
local value by using this new fruit
statements as “flavour,” while other
'requirements for smaller volumes to
p r e p a ra t i o n . M r. Z u e g g w i l l b e
times the flavouring may include dried
test the market. This poses a major
presenting this new product, together
whole dairy products, such as yogurt,
problem for many African yogurt
with the company's other products for
and may be labelled on ingredient
producers, especially smaller
the food and beverage sector at this
statements as “yogurt powder.”
producers like farmer's collectives and
year's African Dairy Conference and
In 2015, African fruit yogurt
they are forced to continue making
Exhibition, which will take place in
Kigali at the end of August.
consumption has reached record levels
flavoured yogurt by using only
- and 2016 is likely to surpass this
flavours and food colouring but no real
again. As Africa's urbanising middle
fruit.
July - August 2016
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