Dairy snacks packaging trends

For fried or baked snacks, candies, milk, yogurt, and cheese are healthier alternatives. These dairy snacks require the use of separate or snack-style packages.

Alpro combines paperboard and plastic to make round or other shaped cups to package legume snacks for sale in the UK. Consumers can easily separate cardboard and plastic to open the package, which relies on Gretna Packaging's patented K3 technology, which can be used in the United Kingdom.

Yollies Yogurt Lollipop was nominated for the "Best Dairy Product Packaging Design" award at the World Dairy Innovation Award.

Dairy products and milk beverages tend to be smaller and more convenient packaging forms. You will find that yogurt is packaged in strips, cheese is packaged in a single form, and even dairy products are used to make packages . The U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed a film made of milk protein.

The snack market has a size of $ 87 billion and continues to grow, accounting for 51% of the entire food market . As a result, many brands have realized that they need to shrink their packaging specifications or face closure. Packaging plays an important role in increasing brand market share. Packaging can differentiate product levels and optimize the value chain. In other words, packaging can increase sales while reducing costs.

Small is good

One small package of snacks is the cheese stick introduced by Jarlsberg . This snack packs together eight individually wrapped cheese sticks. It is said that this form of packaging is more attractive for outdoor picnics, back-to-school lunches, and busy consumers.

Cottage cheese brand also noticed the trend of this snack.

Gerard Meyer Muuna CEO believes: "Cottage cheese has always existed, people mainly see it as a diet food yogurt, too, but has begun to seek innovative yogurt, cottage cheese and is still stuck in the past we decided to redefine the cottage.. Cheese, from inside to outside, includes a unique package.”

Muuna introduced a new flavor of cottage cheese using a 5.3- ounce cup as a small package in a large 16- ounce cylinder. Separate cup packaging and yogurt packaging are the same. Muuna placed the fruit on the bottom of the package and offered five flavors: strawberry, blueberry, pineapple, peach and mango.

Yogurt in hand

The yoghurt is not fresh with a stick-like bag, but the thick yoghurt and jam made into hand-held Yollies yoghurt lollipops? Kerry Foods chose Unifill as a device provider for this product to help them complete shaping and filling solutions. Amcor supplies them with thermoplastic packaging materials.

This unique pod-shaped package makes the Yollies brand a unique personality and high degree of recognition. Amcor 's peel and release film technology makes it easy to eat. Yollies won the “ Best Dairy Packaging Design ” Award in the World Dairy Innovation Competition .

Milk protein packaging

The contents of the package are often not the most special, and sometimes it is the packaging itself. The American Chemical Society recently announced the research of a packaging film made from milk protein at a national conference.

Peggy , who heads the study, said: “The protein-based membrane is a powerful oxygen blocker that helps prevent food spoilage. Using protein as a packaging material can prevent food from being wasted due to deterioration in transit.”

To provide better packaging solutions, Tomasula and her colleagues developed an environmentally friendly film made of bovine milk protein in the United States Department of Agriculture. These films are said to protect food from oxygen by 500 times more than plastics, and are more easily degradable and sustainable than plastics. This type of packaging based on milk has smaller pores than edible packaging made from starch on the market today, so a tighter network can be created to block oxygen.

Researchers say milk protein membranes are edible and may include vitamins, probiotics and other nutrients in the future. The film itself has almost no taste, and some flavors may be added in the future.

Four factors driving dairy packaging:

· Separate small packaging, more popular than other packaging forms

· Minimize the convenience for consumers

· More effective packaging methods to extend the shelf life

· Optional retail shelf space, such as non-freezing aisle areas where competitors are less concerned