Fermented Foods and Cultures

IFF Cultures: Merging Tradition and Innovation

Inspired by nature, our cultures help our customers to differentiate their products to meet consumer demand for taste, texture, and nutritional value while fighting food waste.

Culture Solutions

Our cultures offer essential solutions to help you innovate with current trends, optimize manufacturing, and address current challenges.

Culture Solutions

Leverage Market Trends

At IFF, we understand our customers seek solutions that align with market trends. We strive to help our customers capture market share with innovations that cater to consumers’ desires for high-quality products that support their diet and well-being, are sustainably produced, and delight with delicious flavors and textures. Here’s how:

Satisfy consumer demand for label-friendly* products

Reduce food waste and environmental impact satisfying the expectations of conscious consumers and shareholders

Reinforce healthy and positive product image in consumers’ minds

Maintain product quality over shelf-life to secure consumer loyalty

Address Industry Challenges

We help our customers increase production efficiency, reduce production costs and waste, and secure a reliable supply of ingredients adapted to your processes, all while ensuring compliance with evolving regulations. We help you:

Focus on product efficacy and consistency

Maximize production yield

Ensure regulatory compliance with flexible solutions

Navigate fluctuations in raw material prices, availability, and quality, ensuring efficient use of your raw materials

Preserve Brand Authenticity

We provide solutions that ensure product quality and maintain brand consistency, reinforcing authenticity and aligning with consumer values, so you can build trust and encourage repeat purchases despite production challenges. Here’s how:

Work to achieve the target taste and texture

Maintain product quality over shelf-life

Create premium and signature products that attend the fast-growing demand for label-friendly and authentic food

Meeting Consumer Preferences & Industry Needs

Our advanced collection of cultures, alongside our expertise in production, science, and technology, helps you develop exceptional products that align with diverse consumer preferences and deliver differentiation and cost-effectiveness.

Whatever the challenge, we provide the tools and support to ensure your products succeed in the market.

Explore our Culture Applications

Fresh Fermented

Key Benefits of Fresh Fermented Cultures:

IFF’s fresh fermented cultures, rooted in science, are designed to refine taste, and extend freshness, creating delightful, memorable experiences that resonate with consumers.

It also helps to reduce food waste, improve process reliability and flexibility save formulation costs while maintaining product quality.

Applications: kefir, sour cream, buttermilk, fresh cheese, fermented milk drinks, stirred spoonable yogurt, set yogurt, drinking yogurt, greek and concentrated yogurt, long shelf-life “yogurt”, probiotic yogurt, other Regional Fermented Dairy Products.

Dairy Cultures and Enzymes

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Cheese

IFF’s cheese cultures are designed to deliver exceptional taste, texture, and consistent quality for a wide range of cheeses, from soft to hard and industrial to specialty. With the broadest portfolio of cultures, IFF caters to global cheese manufacturers enhancing cheese products to a new level of deliciousness.

Key Benefits of Cheese Cultures

Our solutions provide consistent quality, robust flavor profiles, and enhanced ripening processes while offering label-friendly* options to optimize shelf life, reduce water and energy consumption, improve shreddability and sliceability, enhance melting, and reduce browning, especially for pizza cheese and cheddar.

Applications: cheddar, pasta filata, cottage cheese, hard cheese, semi-hard cheese, specialty cheese, cream cheese, white cheese, and Tvorog.

Dairy Cultures and Enzymes

Plant-based Alternatives

Our plant-based cultures replicate the taste and texture of traditional dairy products, ensuring quality throughout shelf life. They offer a sustainable, delicious alternative while also being certified allergen-free, dairy and lactose-free, organic, and vegan.

Key Benefits of Plant-Based Cultures

At IFF, our plant-based cultures ensure texture and fresh taste while fermenting and maintaining or extending shelf life, all through a label-friendly* solution.

Applications: fresh fermented dairy alternatives, plant-based cheeses.

Dairy Cultures and Enzymes

Meat

The processed meat industry prioritizes producing high-quality, tasty meats with the right texture, while also improving efficiency, reducing costs, and optimizing capacity. IFF’s meat cultures provide a versatile range of functionalities that protect product quality, uphold brand reputation, and ensure consistent processing.

Key Benefits of Meat Cultures

Our meat cultures enhance color and aroma development, ensure consistent processing, provide manageable pH reduction, and facilitate fast texturing and stabilization. They also support label-friendly* natural fermentation and protect food by promoting growth of beneficial bacteria.

Applications: dried and semi-dried sausages, fresh meat, dry-cured ham, and cooked meats.

Discover More Meat Solutions

YO-MIX® PRIME: EXPLORE WAYS TO MEET DIVERSE YOGURT CONSUMER DEMANDS

Thanks to our unique, full-stop pH “PRIME” technology, our YO-MIX® PRIME allows producers to reduce waste, expand distribution reach, and deliver a premium taste experience until the end of shelf-life. This toolbox helps you achieve superior production flexibility and ensure product stability in mild short texture stirred, set, or drinking yogurts.

CHOOZIT® VINTAGE: IMPROVING CHEDDAR FOR EVERY EATING OCCASION

With our CHOOZIT® VINTAGE program, producers can prevent undesirable texture and flavor development, ensuring the cheddar flavor and smooth texture customers love. This solution provides robust protection against phages, optimizing lactic acid bacteria compounds for consistent cheese quality throughout shelf life. CHOOZIT® VINTAGE also reduces production waste, cheese aging, and storage times, lowering carbon emissions and water use for a more sustainable production process.

Cultures & Sustainability

Partnering with manufacturers to combat pressing sustainability challenges today is one of IFF’s core priorities. Our cultures can reduce water and energy use and food waste. Additionally, we also help partners with the production of plant-based alternative products.

As today’s consumers become increasingly dedicated to making thoughtful purchasing choices, these solutions assist manufacturers in reaching their environmental goals and doing what is best for their customers and the planet.

Listen to IFF chief sustainability officer, Renee Hence talking about sustainability in Dairy.

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Interested in Learning More About Our Cultures?

*Label-friendly means that the ingredient list is familiar and accepted by consumers.  It often means the product may be free from or has fewer e-numbers and chemical additives.