Miyoko’s Reveals No Indicators of Slowing Down With 2 New Groundbreaking Dairy-Free Launches

Miyoko’s Creamery is thought for its revolutionary strategy to plant dairy and its latest product pushes the envelope even additional. The corporate’s new Cinnamon Raisin Cream Cheese is the primary vegan model of this traditional taste and is rolling out in Could at main retailers.

Miyoko’s Creamery

Visionary chef Miyoko Schinner based Miyoko’s Creamery in 2014 and has since been redefining what plant-based cheeses and butters will be. Based mostly in Northern California, Miyoko’s combines old-world creamery traditions with new, revolutionary applied sciences to revolutionize the cheese and butter classes, with an overarching mission of constructing vegan dairy the norm. 

“It’s at all times been essential for Miyoko’s as a model to steer with innovation, and that’s what we’ve completed with our first-of-its-kind Cinnamon Raisin Cream Cheese,” Rusti Porter, CMO of Miyoko’s Creamery, tells VegNews. “There’s a rising urge for food from our followers—vegans and flexitarians alike—for candy treats they will be ok with.”

First vegan cinnamon raisin cream cheese 

Made with cashew milk and coconut cream—and with out added flavors, oils, or gums—the brand new Miyoko’s Cinnamon Raisin Cream Cheese taste options new proprietary cultures that ship a extra dairy-like expertise. 

Miyoko’s Creamery

Porter explains that the brand new taste was created to focus on a possibility within the cream cheese class, the place 72 p.c of development is coming from candy flavors. “Creating scrumptious flavors with easy elements ensures we deal with the demand and fulfill shoppers’ cravings, whereas engaging much more plant curious shoppers to change to plant milk dairy,” Porter says.

“Along with the brand new taste, we’re enhancing our total cream cheese line with using proprietary new cultures, making a diminished stage of tang, whereas delivering richer dairy notes, and an excellent creamier texture,” Porter says.

It additionally serves as a automobile to unveil a brand new packaging search for Miyoko’s Creamery, which options high-contrast colours (making it simpler to identify on retailer cabinets) and a call-out to its easy and natural elements. 

Outdoors of its retail launch, the same product made a quick look in 2020 as a part of a single-store take a look at at Starbucks. At its Issaquah, WA location, the espresso chain large supplied Miyoko’s vegan cream cheese in All the things and Cinnamon Raisin flavors for $1 for a restricted time. 

Vegan caramels with Miyoko’s butter

Outdoors of the brand new launch beneath its personal line of dairy-free merchandise, Miyoko’s can also be partnering with different manufacturers to assist them ship next-level merchandise. Oakland, CA-based firm OCHO Sweet simply launched a line of darkish chocolate-coated vegan caramels in Basic, Cinnamon, Espresso, and Chocolate flavors. 

OCHO Sweet

What’s distinctive about these confections is their caramel middle is made with Miyoko’s European Cultured Type Butter, which imparts a luscious buttery taste usually masked by extra widespread coconut milk-based vegan caramels. The distinctive formulation additionally delivers that very same gooey pull and chew of conventional caramel however with none animal merchandise. 

“I’m extremely excited to announce this partnership between OCHO Sweet and Miyoko’s Creamery,” Scott Kucirek, CEO of OCHO Sweet, stated in an announcement.

“Vegan and dairy-free shoppers deserve dessert choices with nice textures and daring flavors, and we imagine our plant-based caramel line delivers on each fronts. We’re additionally proud to supply a licensed natural and Truthful Commerce choice for caramel lovers,” Kucirek stated. 

OCHO Sweet’s new vegan caramel line—which is offered via the corporate web site—is the newest collaboration that includes Miyoko’s vegan butter. Earlier collaborations included an upcycled vegan chocolate chip cookie by Renewal Mill and a Miyoko’s Butter Toffee & Chocolate ice cream taste at Seattle-based model Frankie & Jo’s—which returned to the ice cream store for a second yr in December. 

Making higher dairy with vegetation

Since its launch, Miyoko’s has grow to be a family favourite however its mission to excellent vegan dairy merchandise is ongoing, fueled by a need to provide shoppers scrumptious vegan selections for each event. 

Miyoko’s Creamery

Along with butter and cream cheese, Miyoko’s produces vegan cheeses in quite a lot of codecs, together with liquid mozzarella (which browns completely on pizzas); artisan wheels (that pair nicely with wines); and Roadhouse Cheddar (a dippable cheese that goes marvelously with pretzels).

“With plant-based milks in practically half of households throughout the nation, Miyoko’s believes there’s simply as a lot alternative for plant-based cheeses to grow to be a family staple,” Porter says.

“We are going to proceed to push boundaries with innovation that appeals to vegans and flexitarians alike who’re searching for scrumptious and wholesome meals, and our Cinnamon Raisin Cream Cheese innovation does simply that,” Porter says.

The forward-thinking firm can also be engaged on the world’s first vegan cottage cheese—made partially with watermelon seed milk—a prototype of which it unveiled final yr.

Anna Starostinetskaya is the Senior Information Editor at VegNews and is at all times maintaining a tally of all issues vegan in her residence metropolis of San Francisco, CA and all over the place else.