Berry On Dairy

1 week ago | berryondairy.blogspot.com | Donna Berry

The Dairy Processor List will be a recurring Friday blog topic as we try to navigate the chaos taking place in Washington, DC. It will highlight the good, the bad and the ugly. Welcome to the second edition, which covers: Shopping habits, SNAP, sugar is poison, reformulation plans need to be accelerated, but most important, highlights from the 101st Collegiate Dairy Products Evaluation Contest.

2 weeks ago | berryondairy.blogspot.com | Donna Berry

If the name Helm rings a bell, it’s because she is the former Chief Food and Nutrition Strategist for Weber Shandwick, who helped turn milk from a commodity to a brand with the iconic got milk? and milk mustache campaigns. At the CFBN breakfast, she identified six movements taking place in food and beverage that are gaining momentum. For starters, she said that the growth in tools to identify ultra-processed (UP) foods will add more to the confusion.

2 weeks ago | berryondairy.blogspot.com | Donna Berry

If the name Helm rings a bell, it’s because she is the former Chief Food and Nutrition Strategist for Weber Shandwick, who helped turn milk from a commodity to a brand with the iconic got milk? and milk mustache campaigns. At the CFBN breakfast, she identified six movements taking place in food and beverage that are gaining momentum. For starters, she said that the growth in tools to identify ultra-processed (UP) foods will add more to the confusion.

3 weeks ago | berryondairy.blogspot.com | Donna Berry

The Dairy Processor List will be a recurring Friday blog topic as we try to navigate the chaos taking place in Washington, DC. It will highlight the good, the bad and the ugly. Welcome to the first edition.  1. Food Safety. The industry needs to ensure consumers that the products it manufactures are safe, and will continue to be safe. Headlines like the following—"FDA Suspends Milk Quality Testing Program for Job Cuts” and “Is Your Milk Still Safe?

4 weeks ago | berryondairy.blogspot.com | Donna Berry

Before it gets satiated, it should get differentiated. It is paramount processors emphasize the power of dairy proteins. A great place to start doing this is with dairy snacks. (And by the way, almost all dairy foods can be marketed as snacks. The exceptions are butter and creamer, and I’m sure some TikToker can make that happen.)   “Snack Unwrap: The Insatiable Craving for Growth,” is a recent research report from Circana.