Dairy Alternatives that fit into everyday routines
Building momentum with plant-based solutions
Dairy alternatives are moving from novelty to everyday utility. Thanks to improved taste and texture, dairy alternative products have firmly established themselves in retail –consumers now view dairy alternatives as everyday food rather than occasional treats. Brands now innovate on taste and clearer ingredient lists, alongside fermentation and protein enrichment to strengthen health cues.
To meet consumer expectations, flavor is always the number one priority while also achieving a dairy-like creaminess without resorting to milk fat, while keeping lables simple. For plant-based beverages, yogurts, and desserts, the key challenges will be controlling viscosity, limiting sedimentation, and managing syneresis and flavor release during shelf life.
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We offer solutions that take plant-based delights to the next level
Need inspiration and solutions for your next dairy alternative innovation? AGRANA combines application expertise and a broad portfolio for dairy alternatives under a lid. Our offering includes ready-to-fill solutions, refined with tasty fruit or brown flavor preparations, aromas, functional starches for improved texture, and sweetening systems for natural delight.
Solutions & Preparations
Our solutions & preparations portfolio supports dairy alternatives across yogurt alternatives, plant-based drinkables, cheeses and desserts, combining fruit, indulgentand savoury components that remain robust under heat, shear and storage.
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From indulgent to functional preparations – discover our full range in just one click.
Starch Products
In dairy alternatives, starches are one of the most direct levers to shape “dairy-like” texture in plant matrices. They help build body and creaminess, support stable emulsions, and keep viscosity predictable through heat treatment, shear and storage.
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From clean label to modified pregelatinized starches – discover our full range in just one click.
Flavors
Shape the sensory profile of dairy alternatives with compounded flavors, extracts and flavors with modifying properties. These tools help manage plant-protein notes and build a familiar dairy-like top profile in plant milks, yogurts and desserts, while staying stable across processing steps and shelf-life exposure.
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From compounded flavors to sweetening flavors – discover our full range in just one click.
Fruit Specialties
Enable fruit-forward dairy alternatives with fruit pieces, purees and concentrates that keep colour and flavor stable in plant bases. Fruit specialties support productdifferentiation in plant yogurts, desserts and drinks, while helping manage textureinteractions.
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From dried fruits to fruit purees – discover our full range in just one click.
Sugars & Sweeteners
Build a natural sweetness architecture in dairy alternatives with options that contributemore than sweetness alone. The portfolio covers fruit-based sweetness concepts and sugars that help balance flavor, manage perceived body and deliver consistent performance across plant drinks, desserts and spoonable formats.
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From fruit sweetness to sweetening compounds – discover our full range in just one click.
Create next level Dairy Alternatives
AGRANA's dairy alternatives team helps brands and manufacturers build plant-based products that deliver on taste, texture and clean-label expectations — without compromising stability or shelf life. From starch systems and fruit preparations to flavor masking and sweetening concepts, we bring the application expertise and portfolio breadth to move your next innovation from idea to production-ready formulation.
