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18 June 2025

Awards

World Dairy Innovation Awards 2025: Winners announced

FoodBev is thrilled to announce the esteemed Winners, Finalists and Commended products, innovations and companies celebrated in this year's World Dairy Innovation Awards. Our awards shine a spotlight on the trailblazers who are truly setting the pace for the global dairy industry’s future.

These awards celebrate the tireless spirit of innovation in the dairy sector, where consumer expectations are continually shifting and the drive for sustainable, nutritious and diverse dairy offerings is paramount. From farm to the fridge, the advancements seen this year have been remarkable.

From pioneering new product formulations that respond to specific dietary trends, to revolutionary advancements in sustainable processing and packaging – the innovations seen this year are crucial to ensuring dairy’s enduring role as a vital source of global nutrition and a leader in sustainable food system innovation.

Winners were announced at a ceremony hosted at FoodBev Events' 18th Global Dairy Congress. Under the theme 'Dairy for All Ages,' this event is renowned as the dairy industry’s leading international forum devoted to marketing and branding, consumers and innovation – providing unparalleled access to insights from professionals across the globe.

To each company and team recognised in this year’s awards, FoodBev extends our warmest congratulations! These achievements are a direct reflection of your hard work, creativity and the significant impact your team has made.

Dan Bunt, marketing director at FoodBev Media, commented:

"This year's award winners have highlighted the trend spike in exciting new flavours, creative use of technology and the increasing value of functionality in the dairy industry."

Congratulations once again to all these deserving businesses!

World Dairy Innovation Awards 2025 results

Best products of 2025

Best artisan product

WINNER Inner Mongolia Yijiahao Cheese - Zhenlao Light Cream

FINALIST Mengniu Hi-Tech Dairy Products - Mengniu GuanYiRu One-shot Immunity Yogurt Bottle

Best butter/spread

WINNER Meiji - Meiji Creamy Spread Tube

Best cheese

WINNER China Feihe - Love Veggie Cheese

FINALIST China Feihe - Supernova Cheese Mango Yogurt Flavour

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Yijiahao Cheese - Yili MiaoZhi Crispy Cheese

FINALIST Meiji - Meiji Hokkaido Tokachi Fresh Mozzerella Basil Cheese

FINALIST Meiji - Meiji Vegetable Cheese Slices Pumpkin and Carrot Blend

COMMENDED Arla Foods - Castello Mild Blue

COMMENDED China Feihe - High-Fibre Dark Chocolate Cheese

COMMENDED Meiji - Meiji Vegetable Cheese Slices Tomato Blend

Best children's dairy product

WINNER Yashili Dairy (Maanshan) - Mengniu RuiBuEn EnZhi Milk Formula

FINALIST Arla Foods - Arla Big Milk Multipack

FINALIST Bright Dairy And Food - Jianneng Yogurt for Children

FINALIST China Feihe - GeniusMax Children's Growth Milk Powder

FINALIST China Feihe - Goodshadoo Fruit and Vegetable Nutrient-fortified children's formula milk powder

FINALIST Milkground - Milkground Premium Cheese Lollipop

FINALIST Vinamilk - Vinamilk ADM Nutritious Milk

FINALIST Yashili Dairy (Maanshan) - Mengniu HuiCongMing Native DHA Student Milk Formula

COMMENDED BTNature - BTNature Premium Growpro Nutrient-Dense Milk Powder 800g

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Shiny Meadow A2 β-Casein Fresh Milk

COMMENDED Junlebao Dairy Group - Mengbao Gaogao Children's Formula Milk

COMMENDED Vinamilk - Optimum

Best dairy alternative

WINNER Mindfuel Flow - Mindfuel Flow Perform focus and clarity

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Daily Fiber Oat Milk Biomimetic Eco-Friendly PET Bottle

FINALIST Vinamilk - Plant Milk High Protein Vinamilk

FINALIST Vinamilk - Vinamilk Plant-based Yogurt

COMMENDED Planet Dairy - Audu hybrid shredded range

Best dessert

WINNER Arla Foods - Baileys Extra Thick Espresso Cream

FINALIST Arla Foods - Baileys Squirty Cream

FINALIST Milkground - Milkground Cheese Triangles (Refreshing Apple Flavor)

FINALIST Vinamilk - Vinamilk Green Farm High Protein Yogurt

FINALIST Yili Joyday - Joyday Vanilla Berry Sandwich

COMMENDED Arla Foods - Baileys Extra Thick Chocolate Cream

COMMENDED Vinamilk - Vinamilk Green Farm Drinking Yogurt

Best dairy drink

WINNER Nurri - Nurri 30g Protein Ultra Filtered Milk Shake

FINALIST CP-Meiji - Meiji Probiotic Drink

FINALIST Dairy Farmers of America - TruMoo Zero Chocolate Milk

FINALIST FrieslandCampina - Yazoo Inspirations

FINALIST Hunt And Brew - Hunt And Brew UK Launch

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Chewy Fruit Milk Beverage - Pineapple and Apple Flavour

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu YoyiC Probiotic Lemon Tea

FINALIST Satine - Satine Special Edition Year of the Dragon, co-branded with the Palace Museum

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Chewy Fruit Floral Fruity Milkshake Yogurt

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial - Chewing Lemon Light Milk Juice Drink

COMMENDED Junlebao Dairy - Freshjoy lactose-free milk

COMMENDED Maui Food - Maui Fresh Full Cream Sheep Milk

COMMENDED VitaDairy Vietnam - Moozi Fresh Milk

Best dairy protein product

WINNER FrieslandCampina - Chocomel Protein

FINALIST China Feihe - Feihe Aiben Yuedong Double Peptide Protein Nutritional Powder

FINALIST China Feihe - Feihe Aiben Yuedong Protein Nutritional Powder

FINALIST FrieslandCampina - Optimel Protein

FINALIST Maui Food - Maui Skim Sheep Milk Powder 25kg

FINALIST Shanghai Maction Health Technology - Mengniu M-Action Protein Drink Pro

COMMENDED Arla Foods Ingredients - High-protein drinking yogurt based on acid whey

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial - Satine Fresh Active Pure Milk

COMMENDED The Organic Protein - The Organic Protein Co Madagascan Vanilla Organic Whey Protein Powder

COMMENDED Vinamilk - Meal Replacement for Weight Control - Vinamilk Tu Do

Best dairy snack

WINNER China Feihe - High-Calcium Cheese Puffs Cheese Flavour

FINALIST Cedar's Foods - Cedar’s Foods Tzatziki with Feta Dip

FINALIST FrieslandCampina - Pöttyös Protein

FINALIST Mengniu Hi-tech Dairy Products - Mengniu 12mm Large Fruit Chunks Yogurt

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Green Mood Green salsa ice cream cone

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Just Pure Nutty Cranberry Oatmeal Crisp Greedy Yogurt

Best ice cream/frozen yogurt

WINNER Yili Joyday - Joyday Crunchy Choco Lava

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu "Natural Beauty" Lychee Cheese Flavoured Ice Cream Stick

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Ice + Chocolate frost

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Suibian Suibianzhuan Chocolate ice cream

FINALIST Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams - Jeni’s J-Bars: Chocolate Churros and Cream

FINALIST Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams - Jeni’s J-Bars: Passion Fruit Dreamsicle

FINALIST Yili Cremo - Cremo Choco Crush Thai Tea Cream Cheese

FINALIST Yili Joyday - Joyday Crunchy Vanilla Cookies

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Deluxe Organic Milk Ice Cream

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Pineapple Ice Sorbet

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Zombie Apple Pineapple Flavour Sorbet

COMMENDED Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams - Jeni’s J-Bars: Dark Chocolate Bombe

COMMENDED Yili Cremo - Cremo Fruit Blast Grape

Best functional dairy

WINNER BTNature - BTNature OptiCare MoveSure Enriched Nutrition 800g

FINALIST Arla Foods - Arla Protein Food To Go Chocolate Caramel Shake

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Future Star Exclusive Care Formula Milk For Children

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Guanyiru Immunity-Boosting Fermented milk

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial - Jinlingguan Zhenhu Bocui lnfant Formula Milk Powder

FINALIST Meiji - Meiji W Skincare Yogurt

FINALIST Vinamilk - Meal Replacement for Weight Control - Vinamilk Tu Do

FINALIST Vinamilk - Vinamilk Green Farm High Protein

COMMENDED China Feihe - Feihe Aiben Plant Sterol Esters Milk Powder

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Guanyiru Morning 8 Tons of Vegetable and Fruit Probiotic Flavoured Fermented Milk

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial - Yili Red ginseng revitalised milk powder (Tongrentang Co-Branded Edition)

COMMENDED Junlebao Dairy - Junlebao Zhizhen Qihu Infant and Young Children Formula

COMMENDED Maui Food - Maui Whole Sheep Milk Powder

COMMENDED VitaDairy Vietnam - Calosure America

Best yogurt

WINNER Vinamilk - Vinamilk Green Farm High Protein Yogurt

FINALIST Arla Foods - Arla Skyr Whipped Yogurt Coconut & White Chocolate

FINALIST FrieslandCampina - High Protein Greek Yoghurt & Powerbowl

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Deluxe Deluxe Gelato

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Guanyiru Morning 8 Tons of Vegetable and Fruit Probiotic Flavored Fermented Milk

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial - Ambpomial Yellow Peach Oatmeal Bursting Beads Yogurt

FINALIST Yili - Changqing Greek Yogurt

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Justpure Vitamin D Flavoured Yogurt

COMMENDED Mengniu Hi-Tech Dairy Products - Mengniu GuanYiRu One-shot Immunity Yogurt Bottle

COMMENDED Vinamilk - Vinamilk Green Farm Drinking Yogurt

COMMENDED Yili - Changqing 100% Natural Yogurt, 400g

Best innovations of 2025

Best dairy alternative innovation

WINNER Planet Dairy - Audu by PlanetDairy

FINALIST Mindfuelbev - Mindfuel Flow Restore Stress & Mood

FINALIST Vinamilk - Vinamilk Plant-based Yoghurt

Best health innovation

WINNER Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Deluxe Deluxe Gelato

FINALIST Dairy Farmers of America - Dairy Pure Milk50

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Fermented Yogurt Ice Cream

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Yijiahao Cheese - Eight-Treasure Herbal Round cheese

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial - Ambpomial Prune Flavored Ambient Probiotic Yogurt

FINALIST Morinaga Milk Industry - Yogurt for memory with B. breve MCC1274, world’s first Bifidobacterium which shows memory maintaining function with single live strain

FINALIST Vinamilk - Optimum

FINALIST Yashili Dairy (Maanshan) - Mengniu Yourui An Tang Dun Formula Milk Powder

COMMENDED China Feihe - Feihe Aiben Daily Protein Nutritional Paste

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Future Star Exclusive Care Formula Milk For Children

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Guanyiru Bama128 Fermented milk

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Justpure Vitamin D Flavoured Yogurt

COMMENDED Vinamilk - Meal Replacement for Weight Control - Vinamilk Tu Do

COMMENDED Yashili Dairy (Maanshan) - Mengniu One Metre Eighty-Eight Children Growth Formula Milk Powder

Best intolerance-friendly innovation

WINNER Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial - Yili’s Patented Multi-Enzymatic Lactose-to-GOS Technology: Boosting Gut Health in Qinghuo Adult Milk Powder

FINALIST Arla Foods - Arla LactoFree Yoghurts

FINALIST China Feihe - Muyuyouyang

FINALIST Dairy Farmers of America - Dairy Pure Milk50

FINALIST Junlebao Dairy - Tianshikangmin Infant Partially Hydrolyzed Milk Protein Formula Food for Special Medical Purpose

COMMENDED China Feihe - Xingfeifan Xiaoyang COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - MENGNIU Shiny Meadow Double Protein Milk

COMMENDED Yeeper (Qingdao) Sheep Dairy - Yeeper Boneng Young Children Formula Sheep Milk Powder

Best manufacturing/technology innovation

WINNER DSM-Firmenich - Maxiren EVO

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Conversion of Lactose in Milk to Tagatose by Enzyme-Chemical Method in a Synthesis Tower

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Multi-Texture Ice Cream Blending-Dispersion-Infusion Integrated Technology

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial - Ambpomial Yellow Peach Oatmeal Bursting Beads Yogurt

FINALIST Junlebao Dairy - Freshjoy Lactose Free Milk

FINALIST Mengniu Hi-tech Dairy Products - Mengniu 12MM Large Fruit Chunks Yogurt

FINALIST Smaxtec - TruHealth Management – Powered by AI TruAdvice & Digital Assistant

COMMENDED Arla Foods Ingredients - High Yield Cottage Cheese

COMMENDED Collo - Collo Liquid Analyzer

COMMENDED CP-Meiji - Meiji Greek Style Yogurt

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Yijiahao Cheese - Yili’s Xiang Yue Whipping Cream

COMMENDED SPXFlow Technology Danmark - APV Seamless UHT Vessel

COMMENDED Vikan - Ultra Safe Technology Tank Brush

Best businesses of 2025

Best marketing campaign

WINNER Dairy Farmers of America - Alta Dena

FINALIST Dairy Farmers of America - Mayfield Dairy

FINALIST Dairy Farmers of America - Meadow Gold

FINALIST Hunt And Brew - Hunt And Brew UK Launch Campaign

FINALIST Les Producteurs de lait du Québec - Lait - Rien d'autre (Milk - Nothing Else)

FINALIST Les Producteurs de lait du Québec - Milkeye

FINALIST Müller UK & Ireland - Müller Corner Originals

COMMENDED Arla Foods Ingredients - Upcycle your whey to value

COMMENDED China Feihe - China Feihe - Launch of Fresh Extraction Technology of Milk Protein

COMMENDED Dairy Farmers of America - TruMoo limited-edition flavours

COMMENDED Dairy Farmers of Canada - Farm & Seek campaign

Best new brand

WINNER Shanghai Maction Health Technology - Mengniu M-Action

FINALIST China Feihe - Feihe Aiben Daily Protein Nutritional Paste

FINALIST China Feihe - Feihe Zhiyunsheyang Postnatal & Lactation Nutrition Powder

FINALIST PlanetDairy - How All Dairy Companies Will Be In The Future

FINALIST SYNAURA Biotechnology (Shanghai) - Synaura Biotech: A Synthetic Biology Start-up that Specialises in Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs)

COMMENDED China Feihe - Feihe Zhiyunsheyang Prenatal & Maternity Nutrition Powder

Best packaging design

WINNER Vinamilk - Vinamilk Plant-based Yoghurt

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Daily Fiber Oat Milk Biomimetic Eco-Friendly PET Bottle

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Guanyiru Forest-Protection Fermented Milk

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Shiny Meadow Seasonal Packaging (Cherry Blossom Bottle / Chinese New Year Bottle / Luminous Bottle)

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial - Satine Fresh Active Pure Milk

FINALIST Mengniu Hi-tech Dairy Products - Mengniu YoyiC Chubby Bottle Probiotic Dairy Beverage

FINALIST Yili - Shuhua Lactose-free Milk x Ma Long Co-branded Collectible Edition Packaging

FINALIST Yili ChangQing - Changqing Greek Yogurt

COMMENDED China Feihe - Love Veggie Cheese

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Deluxe@ TPA250 Edge DreamCap PoB Full Color Digital Printing

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Guanyiru Blueberrie Popping Beads Fermented Milk

Best CSR/sustainability initiative

WINNER Yili Group - Satine Carbon-Reduced Organic milk

FINALIST Arla Foods Ingredients - Upcycle your whey to value

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniuu Deluxe Organic Milk Ice Cream

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Green Mood Mung Bean Ice Cream (Eco Mission Edition)

FINALIST Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Strawberry Flavoured Ice Cream

FINALIST Yili - Yili Eco-friendly Double Reduction Pure Milk

COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu Deluxe A2 Beta-Casein Pure Milk COMMENDED Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy - Mengniu YoyiC Environment - Friendly Packaging

COMMENDED Maui Food - Maui Sheep Milk

Which innovations excite you most from this year's results? Share your insights and join the conversation using #WDIA25

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