Sweet Whey
Leprino Foods is a global Sweet Whey leader. Our Sweet Whey comes only from our mozzarella cheese production, yielding a clean & consistent flavor that is naturally sweet, and rich in lactose and whey proteins setting us apart from the competition. And it is also trusted by small and multinational food manufacturers alike who demand ingredients of the highest quality and consistency.
Leprino’s Sweet Whey powder offers many advantages to enhance your recipes with its nutritional profile and the functional properties delivered by whey proteins. Depending on your formulation, this ingredient can boost the overall solubility, creaminess, emulsifying, or texturing properties of your recipe.
Sweet Whey
Leprino Nutrition Sweet Whey comes only from our own mozzarella cheese production, yielding a clean and consistent flavor that is naturally sweet and rich in lactose and whey proteins.
Benefits
- Inexpensive and functionally versatile source of whey protein, lactose, and minerals from a single ingredient.
- Replaces more expensive dairy ingredients for applications such as dairy flavor, flavor enhancer, bulking agent, and nutritional fortifiers, to providing consistency and clean-ingredient declarations for your formulation.
- A traditional ice cream and frozen dessert ingredient providing stability, excellent flavor, and consistency to your product.
- Delivers functional dairy solids to enhance browning in bakery applications, providing a perfect golden color for baked goods.
- Enhances dough development and improves loaf volume as a traditional bakery ingredient, supporting an irresistible crumb structure.
- Common, easy-to-disperse, free-flowing carrier for powdered-cheese blends, soups, and gravies, enhancing the handling properties for these and many other powdered products.
Applications
- Frozen desserts and ice cream
- Baked goods
- Soups, sauces, and gravies
- Processed cheese
- Confectionery
- Processed Meats
- Animal nutrition
Packaging
- Packaging: 50 lb. (22.68 kg) multi-wall, kraft paper
bag with polyethylene inner liner or 2,000 lb.
(907.194 kg) bulk tote
Shelf life
365 days from the date of manufacture if stored under recommended conditions
Available Certifications
Meet Our Application Specialist
Meet Our Application Specialist
Katie Simons – Technical Sales Support Manager
Katie has a BS in Biological Engineering and a BS in Pharmaceutical Science from Purdue University. She has 5 years of experience in R&D and quality in sports nutrition and dairy ingredient manufacturing.
Our Innovation Studio – What Sets Us Apart
Commitment – Willing to invest significant time and resources to achieve shared innovation success
Collaboration – Passionate about problem-solving tough innovation challenges side-by-side with your team
Dairy and protein application knowledge – Able to provide specific, science-backed, hands-on guidance to smoothly transition our ingredients into your end products
Urgency – Able to leverage our pilot plant to test new ingredients, applications, and processes efficiently, giving you key insights to accelerate product development