Cheese and cheese alternative products are tapping into broader consumer trends.

Innovation in the category is focusing on health, occasions and functional ingredients.

The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association and Center for Dairy Research hosted CheeseExpo 2024, in Milwaukee from April 16-18. 

Beginning in January, Unilever Ice Cream brands kicked off 2023 by launching a number of new ice cream flavors, frozen desserts and dairy alternative products for the country’s freezer aisles.

A number of new products made with an identical animal-free dairy protein have been introduced.

The Specialty Food Association’s sofi Awards, which celebrate innovation and great taste, honored a number of dairy companies and their products in 2022.

The winners were selected through a blind tasting process managed by Rutgers Food Innovation Center.

A look at some of the new ice creams, cheeses, butters, desserts, snacks and other dairy and dairy alternative products that were introduced and announced during the first couple of months of 2022.