Cheese Portions

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Cheese Portions are mini-sized, individually wrapped dairy snacks with the potential for wide appeal. They are crafted from a base of Cream Cheese, Gouda, Cheddar, or a blend of these, offering milky savoury, or sweet options. With a diverse array of flavours and textures, Cheese Portions can serve as quick snacks or be incorporated into larger meals to suit all ages.

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There’s growing opportunity to develop Cheese Portions that appeal to a broader age range, to innovate flavours, sizes, formats, and positioning.

Discover the little diairy snack that could be the next big hit!

Cheese Portions are popular, versatile formats of processed cheese. There is a huge range of innovation possible with different shapes, sweet or savoury flavours, textures, inclusions, and fortification which means:

They appeal to any age group.
You can excite consumers with new product launches and LTOs offerings.
The ways to consume Cheese Portions are almost endless.

Meet the expert behind the growing trend in developing Cheese Portions, Sam Harper.

Sam has spent an impressive 10 years at Fonterra, developing his skills in product formulation design, processed cheese and value engineering.

Developing Cheese Portions that hold wider appeal, could be the key to further growth for your brand. Choosing NZMP ingredients means brands can create Cheese Portions with the backing of our dairy expertise. Learn more about how Sam’s been applying his unique experience with customers to help them launch a variety of processed cheese products, like Cheese Portions.

“We’re seeing more growth in new flavours for Cheese Portions, in both savoury and dessert style Portions. This is all under a bigger space of a push for more adult snacking.”

– Sam Harper, Senior Research Technologist, Dairy Foods, Fonterra.

Retail value of processed cheese is forecast to grow at an average CARG of 5% from 2023 to 2028. As consumers develop a taste for cheese and become more aware of the variety of dairy products, we see a growing desire for them to include more in cheese in their diets.¹

[1] Euromonitor International – Market Sizes

Cheese Portions are the second biggest cheese category in Japan.²Japan has already showcased the endless possibilities for flavours, shapes, textures and sizes so we see an opportunity for Cheese Portions to be just as successful in other markets.

[2] TPC Marketing Research, 2021 Cheese Market Analysis Survey, 2021年チーズの市場分析調査

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