These ingredients help brands and flavor houses capture surging demand for real cheese taste while reducing overall formulation costs and maintaining or elevating flavor impact in finished products.
After more than 10 years of experimentation and technical refinement, Sargento has unveiled a natural version of American cheese that melts and tastes like the classic. The launch highlights how patient R&D and process innovation can reshape a traditional category.
According to Mintel’s 2025 Trending Flavors and Ingredients in Snacks report, consumers continue to crave familiar flavors that offer indulgence while featuring high-quality, natural ingredients. Familiarity in flavors continues to be a strong driver, with cheese and pizza flavors maintaining their popularity.
Cheese consumption in the U.S. is at an all-time high. Discover how food scientists are transforming traditional cheeses like cheddar and mozzarella into innovative ingredients for modern food applications.
The diversity of dairy products—from nutrition and taste, to functionality and texture, to their stand-alone attraction for consumers—continues to be discovered.
Land O’Lakes Ingredients offers 3-Pepper CheddarChroma Cheese Powder
August 18, 2015
With a rich dairy heritage, Land O’Lakes Ingredients offers a portfolio of specialty ingredients, which include a variety of spray-dried dairy powders from cheddar to Romano.
When white cheddar began showing up in popcorn, crackers and tortilla chips back in the 1980s, it wasn’t just a Gen Y rebuttal to the glow-in-the-dark orange electric cheese foods of its youth.