Crafting a Wide Range of Functional Cheeses.
Because every great food product starts with the right performing ingredients.
A Culinary Canvas for Every Creation
We start with the rich goodness of real cheese and dairy ingredients, adding our culinary expertise to craft functional cheese recipes that are the ultimate ingredient for leading food brands, chefs and food lovers alike. We enable the silky-smooth texture, rich aroma and creamy melt that creates a journey of the senses in every dish – whether it’s elevating mac & cheese to a gourmet experience, blended into a decadent sauce, or layered onto an epicurean sandwich.
From perfectly melted indulgence to bold, unique taste profiles, our cheese ingredients elevate your products and empower food creators to dream bigger, create smarter, and deliver flavorful consistency with every bite. When innovation meets tradition, the results are extraordinary.
Function Starts With Innovation
Process and imitation cheeses have many advantages over natural cheese, including a wider and more predictable range of performance in recipes and products, pricing advantages, longer shelf life, and a flavor and texture profile that won’t change over time for absolute consistency in your dishes and products.
\At Ornua Ingredients, three generations of cheesemakers have perfected a selection of core products available in the following process cheese varieties, with each category offering a different fat-to-moisture ratio, functionality and price point.
A deep knowledge base with hundreds of proven recipes lets us solve your challenges quickly, allowing you to get to market faster and with lower development costs. With hundreds of proven solutions and unique recipes; chances are we’ve created solutions for your challenge before, including new and replacement cheese ingredients that offer high quality and greater preparation consistency, value engineering and price stability
How do We Make Our Process Cheese?
We use real dairy ingredients in our process cheese, blending natural cheese, cream and milk powder. We pasteurize the product for food safety by heating the blend, and we add emulsifiers during the process to ensure the ingredients don’t separate.
In our process, we can formulate and control for:
- Melt Point
- Mouth Feel
- Viscosity and Cling
- Stretch
- Color
- Texture and Creaminess
- Flavors and Innovative
- Flavor Blends
- Price Targets
An Expansive Portfolio of Proven Cheese Solutions
- Proprietary “Clean Label” Products including CheddarificTM, SwisstasticTM, MozzarifficTM and @HomeTM
- Pasteurized Process Cheese Products and Cheese Blends…90/10, 50/50, 70/30
- Pasteurized Process Cheese & Cheese Food
- Pasteurized Process Cheese Spreads & Sauces
- Cheese Substitute and Imitation Cheese
Why Choose Ornua Ingredients?
- Customization, functionality; the performance characteristics and flavors you need
- Variety of product platforms that meet specific Institutional guidelines and requirements
- Innovation; capabilities to quickly create different and new, tailor to need
- Shelf-stable; longer shelf life
- Ideal melt characteristics, tailored-to-order
- Smooth, uniform texture stays smooth and creamy even when subjected to cooking heat and secondary processing
- Consistency of product flavors, predictable performance and melt characteristics
- High performance, cost effective solution to many natural cheeses; withstands heat without oiling off
“Clean Label” Products
Made by a proprietary pasteurization and manufacturing process applied to a combination of different aged proteins, our innovative products offer some of the cleanest ingredient labels for functional cheeses in the industry.
Our proprietary clean label products can be labeled the same as natural cheese, containing recognizable and simple ingredients such as milk or cream, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, food starch and water. Contact us for more information on these products.
Traditional Flavor Profiles & Styles
- American
- White American
- Cheddar
- Sharp Cheddar
- Swiss
- Swiss American
- Monterey Jack
- Mozzarella
- Pepper Jack
- Provolone
- Parmesan Style
- Asiago Style
- Romano Style
Let’s create something exceptional
Whether you’re seeking to solve a technical challenge for your recipe, looking for cost optimization in your ingredients, or are exploring your options for a new idea, we invite you to get to know what we have to offer.