Milk-Agro regularly introduces new products to the market so that customers can enjoy new interesting combinations of flavors and aromas. The yogurt assortment is expanding with vanilla and strawberry-banana, starting from May 2nd. This was revealed to us by Ing. Peter Kočiš, head of dairy production in Sabinov.
Vanilla is not unknown to Milk-Agro customers...
Vanilla flavoring is a classic, reintroduced after a several-month break. What’s new is that we have increased the vanilla content, so we can rightfully call it Vanilla Yogurt. We do not add artificial ethylvanillin to this yogurt, only natural vanilla in the form of extract from vanilla pods.
Are you increasing the vanilla content despite its price having risen very high on world markets in recent years?
Yes, we increased the vanilla proportion by up to 30 percent despite its high price because quality is decisive for us in what we offer to the customer.
The second flavor is strawberry-banana...
...and we will start selling it from May 2nd. Strawberry is among the best-selling flavors, and now we combined it with the popular banana. Until now, we have not flavored banana alone; banana was offered in combination with chocolate, which is also a successful combination.
Now it will be fruit with fruit. In a one-to-one ratio?
When converted to dry matter units, there will be slightly more strawberry, specifically 30 percent by weight, and banana 20 percent by weight in the flavoring component. But in some parameters it is the opposite; for example, banana contains more fiber, beneficial for digestion...
Milk-Agro yogurts are popular also because they contain no preservatives...
That’s right. Even the flavors we are introducing now are preservative-free. In fact, for fruit flavors, we do not use dried components but only fresh fruit, which undergoes only pasteurization to preserve as much nutritional value of the fruit as possible.
So we will also taste pieces of fruit in the mouth?
Although the fruit component softens a bit during pasteurization, some of the firm fruit pulp remains. Only the fruit component is pasteurized; the yogurt remains “live,” meaning it retains the declared number of live yogurt and probiotic (bifidobacterium lactis) cultures, which are beneficial to health, and we guarantee their number even at the end of the yogurt’s shelf life.
Thank you for the information, we are going to taste it right away...
