First Choice Ingredients -- June 2018 - 2

Fermentation: Mother Nature's
process for producing clean,
simple dairy flavorings
Less is more in today's food industry. This includes
how ingredients are sourced and commercially
produced.

Pam Gribou,
Director, R&D and
Applications, First
Choice Ingredients,
Germantown, WI

Fermentation technology is considered a
clean-label, natural process, as it relies on
microorganisms and enzymes found in nature.
They are isolated and used in a controlled
manufacturing setting to naturally produce food
ingredients. This includes dairy ingredients for
flavoring dairy products as well as other foods.
For example, cheddar cheese that has gone
through a controlled fermentation process gets
converted into a cheddar cheese ingredient with
an amplified cheddar flavor, as much as 20 times
that of typical cheddar cheese.
Food Business News spoke with dairy ingredients
industry veteran Pam Gribou, Director of Research
& Development and Applications, First Choice
Ingredients, Germantown, WI, to learn more
about the use of fermentation technology.       
Food Business News: Fermentation technology
is all about using tools from Mother Nature. Please
describe how this technology relates to dairy
ingredients and how it has advanced since your
years in the business.
Pam Gribou: Fermentation is a natural process
that has been utilized since ancient times as a
means of preserving various foods including milk
products. The microorganisms initially responsible
for dairy fermentations were "wild" strains with
little consistency in flavor characteristics. Over the
centuries, the fermentation process became more
standardized through a somewhat rudimentary
understanding of the desired organisms and
processing conditions.



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