Danish natural ingredients solution provider Chr. Hansen has launched Delight, a three-in-one ripening culture solution that helps remove bitterness, retain flavour balance, and provide smooth texture to cheeses with minimal calories.The health conscious consumers are growing in number across the world, thereby leading to a rise in low fat alternatives in their daily diet. However, consumers do not wish to compromise on taste.
Chr. Hansen has hence come up with a reduced-fat cheese with a new ripening culture, which intends to preserve the original character of cheese, with clean taste and flavour. The new F-DVS Delight culture can be used by low-fat cheese producers to provide light yet creamy textured, easily soluble product.
According to Chr.Hansen global marketing manager Anne-Claire Bauquis, Delight culture helps cheesemakers to manufacture fat-reduced cheeses to meet the demands of healthier, yet delectable cheeses.
Delight, which is a trademark of Chr. Hansen, is the name of a Lactobacillus helveticus culture that offers different benefits to reduce-fat cheddar and continental cheeses, the company claims.
The company claims that Delight does not carry any side effects on curd acidification, which helps in its application in other avenues such as mold soft cheeses, blue cheeses, cheeses with high residual sugars or high water content. Without the risk of post-acidification, these items can be injected with Delight.
Bauquis added: "We believe Delight can be a game changer in reduced-fat cheese. In fact the culture allows cheesemakers to produce reduced-fat cheeses with a taste and texture that no experts thought possible and that is why we believe we have created a true novelty in the cheese landscape.It is targeted at producers who wish to meet the increasing demand for healthier, yet indulgent cheeses."
Recently, Dairy Innovation Australia Limited (DIAL) sold its DIAL culture production unit and strain collection to Chr. Hansen and its Australian subsidiary. Since, Chr. Hansen specializes in fermentation technology with culture production facilities in Denmark, France and the US, the acquisition would help the company to set up its culture production facility in Australia.
