It’s the battle of cheese sauces where everyone wins! Our Agile Kitchen™ team of culinary experts and R&D specialists has perfected a variety of cheese sauces based on our line of powdered and cheese concentrate ingredients that deliver desired flavor and mouthfeel in a more convenient, affordable format.
We’ve decided to give you a peek behind the curtains of these formulas to inspire you to develop new products or improve existing formulas with traditional and vegan cheese sauces.
But first, let’s detail why you need to be using cheese sauces in your prepared entrees, dips or macaroni and cheese products.
Consumers are back to their hectic lifestyles and no longer have time to spend three hours on Tuesday night meal prep. Convenient, ready-to-heat-and-eat entrees are the perfect solution for quality and convenience demands.
Cheese = comfort and consumers crave (and buy!) comfort foods no matter how often they tell survey takers that they are eating healthier.
Although plant-based meat alternatives are struggling to find an audience, foods such as vegan macaroni and cheese are building a sizable audience because they taste so good.
Consumers used to cast doubts at powdered cheese mixes. Today, they celebrate them as they know they deliver exceptional flavor, mouthfeel and convenience.
Consumers are constantly looking for what’s new, and with powdered cheese blends and concentrates, it’s easy for food manufacturers to push flavor innovation and drive excitement to the category.
There’s a demand for cheese sauces and ready-to-eat products with cheese sauces. Bluegrass Ingredients can help you meet the demand by formulating a traditional or plant-based cheese sauce using powdered and concentrated cheese ingredients.
The flavor and mouthfeel of both of our vegan cheez sauce and traditional cheese sauce are exceptional. These attributes are table stakes in product development, and we invite any food manufacturers to our Agile Kitchen™ in Bowling Green, Kentucky to taste for yourself. However, how we attain this flavor and mouthfeel is quite different in each product.
Overall, it takes more ingredients and is harder to make an exceptional plant-based cheez sauce. Before we analyze the differences, let’s look at what makes them similar.
The major differences in the formulas come from some of the core ingredients used to provide the bulk, body and the texture consumers want from a cheese sauce.
The vegan cheez sauce also requires the help of a variety of seasonings like lemon powder, onion powder and paprika to round out the flavor profile.
The finished products are similar, but how our Agile Kitchen™ team gets there is very different. That’s why we love collaborating with food manufacturers to develop new products!
We are scheduling virtual consultations to review how our complete line of dairy powders, dairy concentrates, dairy seasoning blends, oat milk powders, citrus powders, plant-based powders and specialty ingredients can be used in your next new product success.
