Whey Proteins
Our whey proteins are sourced directly from our internal mozzarella cheese-making process, guaranteeing exceptional quality and consistent organoleptic properties. One of the most versatile dairy proteins, whey can enhance everything from shakes to baked goods by improving texture, increasing protein content, and adding stability and functionality. Well-known for their health and muscle-building properties, whey protein is ideal for sports nutrition as well as consumer packaged goods.
Available Products
Click through our available products below to learn more.
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
Clean Whey 90TM
Clean Whey 90™ Isolate (WPI) is a highly concentrated whey protein powder designed to provide nutritional and functional benefits across a wide array of food applications.
Available in Regular & Instant*.
Benefits
- Produced from mozzarella cheese, resulting in superior and consistent organoleptic properties from batch to batch.
- Delivers premium, highly concentrated protein for athletes seeking a rapidly digestible, nutrient-dense protein.
- Can be used as an egg white replacement in high-protein bakery applications, reducing allergen concerns and enhancing functionality.
- Provides or improves functional properties such as emulsification, foaming, water binding, viscosity building, and gelling to foods.
*Instantized using lecithin, which allows powder to disperse rapidly with hand-stirring or shaking, creating a smooth drinking experience.
Applications
- Baked goods and low moisture snacks (regular only)
- Bars, cookies, and desserts (regular only)
- Extruded texturized products and cereals (regular only)
- *Ready-to-mix powders (regular and instant)
- *Protein-fortified foods, drinks, and mixes (regular and instant)
- *Sports nutrition (instant only)
Packaging
- 44.1 lb. (20 kg) multi-wall, kraft paper bag with polyethylene inner liner.
Shelf Life
- 730 days from the date of manufacture if stored under recommended conditions.
Available Certifications
Applicable Segments for Ingredient
Whey Permeate
Leprino Nutrition’s Whey Permeate is a high-quality dairy ingredient that is obtained from Grade A milk. It is comprised primarily of lactose and dairy minerals, with a slightly sweet and slightly savory flavor profile, providing benefits for various food applications.
Benefits
- Cost-effective replacement of other dairy solids, including sweet whey and lactose, to ensure inventory availability.
- Provides several process and application aids, such as texture and flavor enhancer, due to its mild dairy taste to improve sensory experience in food applications.
- Affordable source for sodium and sugar reduction in many food categories, such as savory snacking and confectionery, respectively.
- High in natural essential electrolytes, enabling application in hydration and recovery drinks.
- Low-fat free-flowing bulking agent to help improve customer margins.
- Obtained directly from Grade A milk which allows for clean labeling.
- Provides natural minerals, vitamins and carbohydrates to increase nutritional value and hydration in animal feed and hydration in animal feed.
Applications
- Confectionary
- Dairy
- Savory snacking
- Bakery
- Animal nutrition
Packaging
- 50.0 lb. (22 kg) multi-wall kraft paper bag with polyethylene inner liner.
Shelf Life
- 365 days from the date of manufacture if stored under recommended conditions.
Available Certifications
Whey Protein Concentrate 80
Whey Protein Concentrate 80 (WPC 80) is an ideal source of concentrated protein for a variety of applications and contains no less than 80% protein on a dry basis.
Available in Regular & Instant*.
Benefits
- Produced directly from our single mozzarella cheese type, resulting in superior and consistent organoleptic properties from batch to batch, ensuring product consistency.
- An ideal source of concentrated protein, providing versatility for protein enriched food applications.
- Solubilizes at relatively high concentrations and wide pH ranges for ease of use in food systems.
- Provides functional benefits, such as foaming, emulsifying, whipping, gelling, and water binding, for a variety of food applications to meet your special needs.
- With high protein content and enhanced functionality, the powder makes for a suitable egg substitute in bakery applications.
- Disperses rapidly with hand-stirring or shaking, creating a smooth drinking experience*.
*Instantized using lecithin
Applications
- *Protein-fortified foods, drinks, and
mixes (both regular and instant) - *Sports nutrition (instant only)
- *Ready-to-mix powders (instant only)
- Baked goods (regular only)
- Extruded and texturized products such as cheese puffs or protein cereal (regular only)
Packaging
- 44.1 lb. (20.0 kg) multi-wall, kraft paper bag with polyethylene inner liner or 1,000 lb. (453.592 kg) bulk tote.
Shelf Life
- 730 days from the date of manufacture if stored under recommended conditions.
Available Certifications
Applicable Segments for Ingredient
Whey Protein Concentrate 34
Whey Protein Concentrate 34 (WPC34) is obtained through ultra-filtration and is 34% whey protein with a light cream color, clean flavor, and neutral aroma.
Benefits
- The inherent reduced sugar and amino acid content make sweet whey ideal for enhancing color development during high-temperature cooking and baking via the Maillard browning reaction.
- The combination of dairy protein, carbohydrates, and high mineral content makes WPC34 an excellent nutritional fortifier.
Applications
- Frozen desserts and ice cream
- Baked goods
- Processed cheese
- Confectionery
- Nutritional fortification
Packaging
- Packaging: 55.1 lb. (25 kg) multi-wall, kraft paper
bag with polyethylene inner liner or 2,000 lb.
(907.184 kg) bulk tote.
Shelf Life
- 730 days from the date of manufacture if stored under recommended conditions.
Available Certifications
Applicable Segments for Ingredient
Infant Grade Whey Protein Concentrate 34
Leprino Nutrition Infant Grade Whey Protein Concentrate 34 (WPC34) comes from our colorless mozzarella cheese production and is manufactured to meet our customer’s infant grade requirements.
Benefits
- Leprino combines sensitive micro methods with uncompromising microbiological limits to meet your stringent infant grade requirements.
- Contaminant and heavy metal levels are routinely monitored to ensure our high manufacturing standards are maintained.
- A rich source of minerals, WPC34 can reduce or eliminate the need to fortify your infant formulations with additional calcium, potassium, and sodium.
Applications
- Infant formula
- Growing up formula
Packaging
25 kg (55.1 lb.) multi-wall, kraft paper bag with polyethylene liner
2000lb bulk tote
Shelf Life
730 days from the date of manufacture if stored under recommended conditions
Available Certifications
Infant Native Whey Protein Isolate
Microfiltered directly from milk and virtually free of fat and lactose, our high-quality Native WPI is an undenatured, unmodified protein that is free of casein glycomacropeptide (cGMP). Contains no less than 90 percent protein on a dry basis.
Benefits
- The superior quality of native whey protein provides a higher level of tryptophan and a reduced amount of threonine so that babies are not overfed protein.
- The absence of glycomacropeptide (GMP) in native whey means there is more tryptophan which helps babies sleep well.
- Because the protein profile includes beta-casein, it provides infant formula with the protein and amino acid profile closer to human milk.
- Uncompromising microbiological limits using sensitive micro methods, lead to low levels of contaminants and heavy metals, which gives infant formula producers peace of mind.
Applications
Ideal for premium infant and early life applications where consumers are expecting a superior quality, minimally processed whey protein that contains no cGMP.
- Infant formula powder
- Infant formula RTD
- Follow on formula powder & RTD
- Growing up milk
Packaging
20 kg (44.1 lb.) multi-wall, paper bag
Shelf Life
730 days from the date of manufacture if stored under recommended conditions
Available Certifications
L-PROTM MFGM 70 – Early Life Nutrition
Milk fat globule membrane (MFGM) is extracted from our high-quality protein stream to aid in early-life nutrition. The unique blend of high protein and high fat is rich in phospholipids and other bioactive ingredients that support brain development, promote a healthy immune system, and help aid in muscle growth in infants and children.
Benefits
- Formulas and foods fortified with MFGM can support brain development in infants and have a long-term effect on children’s cognitive abilities.
- Infants and children can benefit from improved cognitive performance,
memory, and learning abilities by consuming phospholipids, sphingolipids, and glycoproteins found in MFGM.
- Immunoglobulins and other immune-supporting compounds in MFGM can enhance children’s immune response.
- High in protein and amino acids (the building blocks of protein), the formulas provide essential components for muscle growth, repair, and maintenance.
*Contact us for the latest clinical research into the efficacy of MFGM
Applications
- Baby Foods – Dried Baby Foods, Prepared Baby Food
- Powdered Milk Formula – Standard Milk Formula, Follow-On Milk Formula, Growing-Up Milk Formula, Special Baby Milk Formula
- Liquid Milk Formula – Standard Milk Formula, Follow-On Milk Formula, Growing-Up Milk Formula, Specialty Milk Formula
Packaging
- 37.4 lb. (17 kg) multi-wall, kraft paper bag with polyethylene inner liner.
Shelf Life
1 year / 365 days from the date of manufacture if stored at recommended conditions.
Available Certifications
Applicable Segments for Ingredient
Meet Our Application Specialist
Meet Our Application Specialist
Jason Gallaher – Associate Director, R&D
Jason J. Gallaher is a seasoned food scientist and technical leader with over 20 years of experience in product development, customer engagement, and cross-functional team leadership. He holds a M.S. and a B.S. in Food Science from The Pennsylvania State University. Currently leading the Applications Team, Jason has a proven track record of driving innovation and continuous improvement, building high-performing teams, and delivering strategic technical solutions for major CPG, commercial, and food service customers.
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