Nourish Ingredients and Fonterra join forces to build delicious dairy products
Nourish Ingredients, a leader in specialty fats and precision fermentation, and Fonterra, a global dairy co-operative, today announced a unique collaboration to accelerate the development of dairy products with innovative fats.
The collaboration marries Nourish Ingredients scientific ingenuity in precision fermentation-based animalic fats with Fonterra’s decades of dairy expertise, global scale and commitment to meeting global food demand.
Nourish Ingredients has pioneered unique dairy-type lipid solutions that deliver authentic creamy taste, aroma and mouthfeel to dairy foods. Their Creamilux™ product masterfully provides the rich, indulgent sensation of full cream consumers desire from premium dairy products.
Nourish Ingredients and Fonterra will kick off their joint efforts with a focus on product innovation. The first is exploring dairy applications across a range of dairy categories, including cheese, cream, butter and more. This will leverage Nourish Ingredients Creamilux™ as a key ingredient to unlock functionality while preserving the delicious taste of traditional dairy.
In addition, the companies will explore opportunities where Nourish Ingredients fats can provide enhancements to non-dairy categories such as bakery that traditionally rely on dairy lipids. By leveraging Nourish Ingredients innovative ingredients, the companies will seek to unlock new possibilities in adjacent product segments beyond core dairy applications.
“This collaboration balances our passion for creating innovative ingredients with hard-nosed applications to unlock massive product opportunities. We are overcoming specific animal ingredient bottlenecks to optimise current animal-based food production capacity without losing quality. This allows us to enable our partners to meet demand with our potent lipids without sacrificing taste and experience. Fonterra is a great partner that lets us bring our vision to commercial reality as quickly as possible,” says James Petrie, Chief Executive Officer at Nourish Ingredients.
The Fonterra team first tasted Nourish Ingredients Creamilux™ product in January this year; following this tasting Fonterra and Nourish Ingredients moved quickly to collaborate based on the alignment in mission and trusted reputation.
“Nourish Ingredients is taking a unique approach that aligns perfectly with Fonterra’s focus on leadership in dairy innovation science and being at the forefront of such innovative new food ingredients,” said Jeremy Hill, Chief Science and Technology Officer at Fonterra.
“By partnering together, we can explore new ways to help meet the growing global demand for great-tasting, texturally appealing products, that deliver an exceptional experience to our customers.” says Dr Hill.
Harnessing each other’s complementary strengths, Fonterra and Nourish Ingredients will meet the growing demand for innovative, animal-free ingredients across a wide range of food sectors. Maintaining a delicious dairy future for generations to come.
