Your partner for dairy innovation

In a time where consumers have a taste for evolving flavors, dietary inclusivity and sustainable, eye-catching packaging, staying ahead is essential. So how do you do it? The brands that lead the way in new dairy product trends are those that embrace innovation to solve these challenges and delight their customers. 

From crafting indulgent dairy beverages and desserts to creating creamy yogurts, tasty bakery products, or items catering to specific dietary needs, innovation unlocks endless possibilities for differentiation and growth. The key is delivering fresh ideas that meet diverse and evolving consumer expectations. 

By leveraging insights and creativity, we help brands transform challenges into opportunities—bringing products to market that are not only relevant but also irresistible. In a world that moves fast, we’ll help you stay ahead.

How we solve our customers challenges

Want fresh solutions? Our expertise in key areas is the cream of the crop.

Textures

Texture is one of dairy’s defining strengths—and a powerful driver of consumer preference. Our dairy ingredients are designed to deliver creamy, smooth and indulgent mouthfeels across a range of applications, from silky milk teas and spoonable yogurts to rich, buttery spreads. These textures don’t just enhance taste—they shape the entire eating and drinking experience. With deep expertise in dairy functionality, we help customers fine-tune formulations for consistently irresistible results.

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Ingredient functionality

Knowledge is power. From the physical to the chemical, understanding what ingredients add to the food matrix helps our customers decide how best to use them in end applications. In short, that helps make their ideas and ambitions for new products real. So, our food tech experts and scientists are on hand with product data galore and ready to answer any questions.

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Natural and clean label

We help our customers achieve great tasting, great looking products with an optimal mouthfeel. But this can bring challenges in also meeting increasing consumer desire for fewer additives in their food products. This is why we are always looking for opportunities to develop natural ingredients without the use of additives to suit clean label applications.

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Health, nutrition and wellbeing benefits

Dairy is naturally bursting with nutritional goodness. We‘re always looking to see how these benefits can be protected and enhanced during the manufacturing process while still tasting great: for example, by fortifying our fat filled milk powder (FFMP) with additional vitamins and minerals to meet nutritional demand. And in a world where the consumer’s diet is constantly evolving, we use the latest tools to track emerging trends.

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Categories we support

Each of our specialized dairy solutions supports dairy innovation for foodservice, consumer packaged goods and private label helping brands stay ahead with delicious, on-trend products across multiple categories.

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Yogurt

With rising awareness of its health benefits, yogurt’s popularity continues to soar. We offer ingredients that support every style, from set and stirred to drinkable. Whether you're focused on dairy ingredients for wellness or experimenting with flavors, our solutions help you meet the growing demand for healthier, more flavorful options.

Dairy Dairy free

Interested in dairy-free innovation?

Dairy-free plant-power is in high demand and we love dreaming up vegan products with standout sensory appeal. If an energy-packed almond-based golden milk, plant-based chocolate beverage or choco-nut spread sounds good to you, there’s plenty more where that came from. 

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Global innovation hubs

A worldwide innovation infrastructure. Dedicated spaces for new ideas. ofi's Ingredient Excellence Centers (IECs) are designed for ingredient-focused innovation for chosen platforms. Fresh thinking. New products. Tailored to your needs and the latest market trends. 

 

Where new ideas begin

As a hub for developing innovative ingredients, processes and technologies, our IECs are where we apply expert knowledge in areas like chemistry, engineering, processing technologies and analytics while offering practical, fact-based solutions. The dairy IECs focus on creating new value-added products and processes to meet customer needs, such as better-for-you reformulations, upcycling side streams, enhancing natural flavors and highlighting unique single-origin dairy flavors. Additionally, it supports a global network of scientists and engineers.  

It’s where concepts take off.