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Article: Not your father's heavy cream.(R&D applications)(Darifair Foods Inc.'s product information of Identi*cal Plus )
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- Prepared Foods
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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The price of cream, already high, is expected to continue to increase. Can you imagine the buzz in the industry if food manufacturers could lock in the price when it was less expensive? What if processors, frustrated with the functionality of heavy dairy cream, were suddenly able to work with something that was freeze/thaw stable?
Darifair Foods Inc.'s latest brainchild is a product called Identi*cal Plus cream substitute. The product is not identical to cream; it actually is better, say company executives. "We can stabilize the price for up to 12 months," says executive vice president Jeffery Block, pointing out that Identical Plus is already 25%-40% less ...