Article: Spreading culture: amid calls for nutrition and portion control, Franklin Foods hits it big with its yogurt cream cheese.(Snapshot)

In 2003, Vermont's Franklin Foods devised a way to make the first-ever yogurt cream cheese, a patented process that yields a product with lower calories, fat, sodium and cholesterol, and allowed for the yogurt cultures to remain alive and active. Dubbing the product Hahn's Yogurt and Cream Cheese Spread, to honor the company's beginnings as Hahn's Cheese Co., Franklin has since found eager customers for it, including a real heavyweight.

The company supplies its innovative yogurt cream cheese in portion-controlled cups to the school meals program in New York City, the largest school district in the nation. Known for its strict nutritional standards at odds with the dairy ...

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