

Proteínas especiais
Leprino Nutrition offers specialty protein ingredients designed to help manufacturers increase protein while protecting the taste, texture, appearance, and stability of the finished product. The portfolio includes Micellar Casein Isolate (MCI), CLEAR PRO 90™, Native Whey Protein Isolate, MP PRO C80™, BarLife™, and L-PRO™ MFGM 70 – Adult.
Across food, beverage, sports nutrition, and adult nutrition applications, these proteins can support specific functionality needs such as clean and neutral flavor, creamy mouthfeel, heat and acid stability, clarity, bar softness, or targeted nutrition. Our application experts work with customers to choose the ingredient that fits the product and processing needs.

Why Choose Leprino Nutrition for Specialty Protein Ingredients?
High-protein product development involves more than meeting a protein target. Taste, texture, stability, processing, and scale must work together. Leprino Nutrition’s specialty ingredient portfolio is designed to address formulation challenges such as undesirable flavor, chalkiness, unwanted viscosity, shelf-life or texture instability, and scale-up difficulties.
Leprino Nutrition’s Application and Customer Engagement team works directly with food manufacturers to troubleshoot formulations, support scale-up, and co-develop solutions. The Innovation Studio brings together food scientists, ingredient experts, consumer researchers, and market analysts, supported by a $15 million pilot plant with membrane filtration, evaporation, drying, and blending systems as well as several product application capabilities
Backed by 75 years of dairy innovation and global operations, Leprino provides the scale, reliability, and technical expertise manufacturers need from concept through commercialization.
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Specialty Protein Solutions for High-Protein Product Development
Taste, Texture, and Mouthfeel
Increasing protein levels in many applications can introduce challenges like chalkiness, grittiness, off‑notes, or unwanted viscosity. Leprino Nutrition provides expertise and ingredient solutions designed to help address these formulation issues. For example, proteins in our portfolio—such as micellar casein isolates for cleaner flavor, MP PRO C80™ for enhanced creaminess and improved mouthfeel, and CLEAR PRO 90™ for a clean, non‑dairy taste in low‑pH systems—can help support improved sensory and functional performance.
Clean-Label and Minimally Processed Options
Brands aiming for simpler, more recognizable labels can leverage Leprino Nutrition’s specialty proteins, which appear on ingredient statements as the familiar dairy proteins—whey and casein—widely understood by consumers in high‑protein products. Our specialty proteins also offer versatile and superior functionality that can often reduce or replace the need for additional components like flavor maskers, gums, hydrocolloids, or other stabilizing systems.
Process Tolerance Advantages
Many applications require proteins that can tolerate demanding processing conditions without compromising manufacturing efficiency or the final product’s texture, stability, or appearance. Leprino Nutrition’s specialty proteins each offer a distinct tolerance advantage that supports reliable performance across a range of manufacturing environments.
Micellar Casein Isolate provides strong stability during high‑heat processing at neutral pH, making it well‑suited for applications that undergo intensive thermal treatment. MP PRO C80™ shows reduced aggregation and gelling under heat, enabling higher protein inclusion in high‑moisture systems while maintaining desirable texture and viscosity. CLEAR PRO 90™ maintains stability under heat and acid conditions in low‑pH applications, offering a clean flavor profile and low turbidity to support products where clarity and sensory quality matter most.
Adult Nutrition and Healthy Aging
Formulating for adult nutrition and healthy aging requires ingredients that deliver meaningful functional benefits—supporting cognition, mobility, immunity, and overall wellness—while also performing reliably across diverse food and beverage formats. Leprino Nutrition’s specialty proteins offer a range of tools that help developers meet these needs through targeted bioactivity, strong process tolerance, and clean sensory performance.
L‑PRO™ MFGM 70 – Adult delivers phospholipids and bioactive components that support cognition, immunity, and muscle health in aging adults, and its unique composition and flexible functionality make it suitable for a broad range of applications designed for aging populations.
Beyond MFGM, Micellar Casein Isolate, Native Whey Protein Isolate, MP PRO C80™, and CLEAR PRO 90™ each offer complementary advantages—such as sustained amino acid release, rapid digestion, creamy texture enhancement, heat and acid stability, and clean flavor profiles—that can help developers build adult‑nutrition products with the right balance of performance, sensory quality, and processing reliability.
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Protein Fortification Across Snack and Dessert Applications
Protein fortification is no longer limited to the categories consumers traditionally associate with high‑protein products. Today’s developers are incorporating meaningful protein levels into a wide range of snacks, desserts, baked goods, high-fat formats, and low‑moisture food systems—each requiring ingredients that deliver both nutritional value and dependable functionality.
Micellar Casein Isolate provides robust heat stability for baked, puffed, extruded, or ready‑to‑eat snacks that undergo thermal processing or more extreme conditions such as retort. Its performance enables protein fortification without compromising structure or texture and offers formulation options where other proteins may fall short. MCI is also an effective water binder which can also help manage moisture in ambient products when tighter control is needed and water activity is critical.
MP PRO C80™ serves as an excellent fat mimicker, contributing creamy texture and smooth mouthfeel that allow developers to reduce fat in high‑fat products or pursue fat and sugar reduction without sacrificing sensory quality. Its strong texturizing properties make it well‑suited for protein‑enhanced snacks, baked goods, desserts, and other applications where richness and sensory quality are essential.
BarLife™ technology supports the development of high‑protein bars, snacks, and baked goods by helping maintain softness and desirable sensorial properties throughout shelf life
Sports Nutrition and Protein RTD Beverages & RTM Foods
Protein fortification in modern sports nutrition goes far beyond shakes and powders—developers now need ingredients that deliver reliable processing performance, clean flavor, and the right digestion profile across ready‑to‑mix, ready‑to‑drink, carbonated, and low‑pH formats. Leprino Nutrition’s specialty proteins each offer a distinct combination of process tolerance, sensory benefits, and functional performance tailored to these evolving applications.
Micellar Casein Isolate delivers a naturally slow‑digesting protein profile with high levels of calcium and an extended amino acid release, supporting functional‑nutrition product development in RTD shakes, recovery beverages, and hybrid snack‑drink formats. Its exceptional heat stability, clean flavor, and inherent emulsification behavior help maintain consistent texture and reliable performance through demanding thermal processing—making it one of the few proteins capable of delivering both process tolerance and strong sensory quality in these applications.
CLEAR PRO 90™ Engineered for low‑pH systems, CLEAR PRO 90™ delivers exceptional heat and acid stability with low turbidity—supporting clear protein waters, carbonated beverages, and ready‑to‑mix powders that desire brightness, clarity, and a clean, non‑dairy taste. Its high-heat process tolerance enables protein fortification in beverage formats where traditional proteins would precipitate or become cloudy.
Native Whey Protein Isolate is a minimally processed, rapidly digesting protein with naturally higher leucine levels than traditional cheese whey. With its inherently low sugar and fat content, clean flavor, fast solubility, and light mouthfeel, it excels in low‑calorie ready‑to‑mix powders, nutrition bars, and applications where quick absorption and a clean sensory profile are essential.
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Conheça o nosso especialista em aplicação

Conheça o nosso especialista em aplicação
Guorong Wang – Senior Technical Sales Support Manager
Guorong has a PhD degree in Nutrition and Food Science from the University of Vermont. He has 20 years of experience in dairy science research and development with in-depth knowledge in dairy chemistry, processing, and various food applications.


O nosso estúdio de inovação - O que nos distingue
Compromisso - Disposto a investir tempo e recursossignificativos para alcançar o sucesso da inovação partilhada
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Conhecimentos de aplicação de produtos lácteos e proteínas - Capaz de fornecer orientações práticas específicas, com base científica, para efetuar uma transiçãosuave dos nossos ingredientes para os seus produtos finais
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Frequently Asked Questions About Specialty Protein Ingredients
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