Transforming whey into high-value nutrition

Global life expectancy has doubled over the past century and is now estimated at around 73 years. As populations age, demand is increasing for foods that support active lifestyles, mobility and overall health. This creates a need for protein ingredients with high nutritional value that can be used across a wide range of food categories.

Arla Foods Ingredients, a Danish farmerowned company, specialises in upgrading whey – formerly regarded as a low-value by-product of cheese production – into highquality nutrition for human nutrition. By refining and fractionating whey proteins, the company develops solutions for early-life nutrition, sports nutrition and a growing range of everyday foods where protein functionality and digestibility are important.

Whey proteins improve texture, nutrition and stability

The development of whey-based ingredients has created a new value chain within the dairy sector. Modern processing technologies allow Arla Foods Ingredients to extract and isolate specific proteins with tailored functionality, enabling food manufacturers to design recipes with improved texture, nutrition and stability. Whey proteins are rich in essential amino acids and easy to digest, making them ideal for foods that support active and healthy lifestyles at any age.

By turning whey into a valuable resource, Arla Foods Ingredients reduces waste streams in dairy processing and increases the utilisation of raw materials. In this way, by-products can be reintroduced to the value chain as high-quality nutrition, supporting nutrition and contributing to more resourceefficient production.