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Mane Launches Mane Native Dairy Flavor Line

Jul 19th, 2013

Nicole Urbanowicz

Mane has launched Mane Native Dairy, which offers a wide range of natural flavors primarily sourced from dairy food ingredients. They can be used in:

Dry sauce

Mashed potatoes

Pasta filling

Processed cheese

Cheese analogue

Blends and preparations ...

Its cream and butter range includes: Fresh Cream Mane Native, which offers a creamy, buttery flavor profile; Sour Cream Mane Native, which offers a creamy, acidic flavor profile; Fresh Butter Mane Native is buttery and fatty; and Ghee Mane Native, offers a buttery, caramelized, rancid profile.

Its cheese range includes: Creamy Blue Cheese Mane Native, which offers a creamy blue cheese flavor profile; Strong Blue Cheese Mane Native, which has a blue cheese, ketonic flavor profile; Fresh Goat Cheese Mane Native, which offers a goat, animalic, creamy flavor profile; Mature Goat Cheese Mane Native, which has a goat, animalic, fatty, pungent flavor profile; Camembert Mane Native, which offers a sulphury, creamy and cheesy profile, among other cheeses.

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