Best children’s product at World Dairy Innovation Awards

Naturalness, convenience, snackification and engaging packaging or serving options to ignite kids’ imagination were key to success in the best children’s dairy product category this year.

Burgu Cheese from Murat Bey offers a solution for mothers whose children don’t like cheese, with an interesting braided shape and a snacking option that can be consumed at any time of the day.

Chobani Tots Greek yogurt pouches and Chobani Kids Tubes stand out with their flexible packaging options and offer great snacks to go in the lunchbox, with the addition of natural and non-GMO ingredients, Omega-3 DHA and live and active cultures for a lifelong habit of healthy eating.

Encouraging milk drinking for growing children, many new products offer superior taste and added health benefits, such as Rainbow Drinking Milk from DairyBelle which is made with fresh milk, not UHT, and can be heated to make a delicious hot chocolate, or the fun and colourful Happy Monkey milkshakes in two original flavours, with no artificial flavours or colours and in distinctive prism-shaped, lightweight Tetra Pak cartons. Interestingly MooShake from Milk Mantra Dairy offers a functional milkshake containing curcumin, the active compound in turmeric with anti-inflammatory, blood purification and immunity boasting properties, combining health and taste with a fun packaging design.

Offering a unique way to consume dairy, the freeze-dried yogurt for kids from Watershed Foods provides the nutritious elements of yogurt in a convenient on-the-go snack and the patented formula contain fruit, yogurt and healthy probiotics.

Zolotoy Standard classic ice cream from Unilever Russia contains no artificial flavours or colourants but milk fat, which is rich in Omega-3 fatty acids and arachidonic acid for sustaining the immune system, plus added blueberry, prunes and dried apricot, increasing the content of mineral substances, vitamins and antioxidants.