ＵＳ産ホエイ・プロテイン技術セミナー開催のお知らせ
アメリカ乳製品輸出協会(USDEC)は、5月21日より開催されるifia国際食品素材/添加物展に出展し、ホエイ・プロテインなどの米国産乳原料の機能性をご紹介いたします。このところの原料高騰や供給難に伴い、食肉加工品、水産加工品分野においては、特に興味深いＷＰＣ８０をこれらの解決策として紹介いたします。ＷＰＣ８０は、他のたんぱく質と比較し水と脂肪をより保持する特性を持ち、肉、魚、パン菓子類などに幅広く使用されています。またホエイたんぱくは、骨、筋肉を強くし、免疫力を改善することによりあらゆる年齢層の人々が活動的なライフスタイルを維持することを助けるなどの健康効果を持つことでも知られています。ホエイたんぱくは高品質で消化が良く特に加齢に伴う筋肉の減少を経験している年配の方々に有効です。会期中には、米国の専門家によるセミナーを会場にて開催を予定しています。会期中はぜひＵＳＤＥＣブースにお立ち寄り頂き、セミナーの詳細、またＷＰＣ８０を始めとする乳原料の様々な用途について知識を深めていただければ幸いです。 Read More
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2008 World Championship Cheese Contest
2008年ワールド・チャンピオンシップ・チーズコンテスト開催
チーズの“オリンピック”とも称される「ワールド・チャンピオンシップ・チーズコンテスト(WCCC)」が3月11日から13日まで米国ウィスコンシン州マディソン市にて開催され、日本におけるチーズの第一人者の村山重信氏が今回も審査員として参加しました。 Read More
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June 2008
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Editorial
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天候不順が続いておりましたが、道にはつつじをはじめたくさんの花々が咲き、すがすがしい季節になりました。アメリカ乳製品輸出協会には、今年も嬉しいニュースが届いております。さる3月11日から3日間に渡りアメリカウィスコンシン州で開催された「ワールド・チャンピオンシップ・チーズコンテスト(WCCC)」においてアメリカ産チーズは全77カテゴリーのうち46カテゴリーで金賞を受賞しました。アジア代表の審査員の一人として村山重信氏が今年も参加されましたが、コンテストの後、アメリカチーズの工場や地元のチーズショップを見学された村山氏から、こんな嬉しいコメントが届きました。“今回見学したアルチザンチーズ工場や地元のチーズショップでは、ヨーロッパでも失われつつある伝統的技法を重んじ、またそこにオリジナリティを加えるなど、高品質で日本人の口に合うチーズがたくさんありました。
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U.S. Dairy Industry News
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U.S. Container Shortage
Dairy suppliers and
customers are faced with a new logistical challenge. Shipping containers used to
export U.S. dairy products are in
short supply. Obtaining dry containers for dairy ingredients may now take four
weeks or more.
Managing Price Risk through CME
Wide swings in
U.S. commodity pricing
present challenges to exporters and customers. Two of the tools currently
available to help manage price risk are ‘futures’ and
‘options’.
2008 IFT Annual Meeting & Expo
The 2008 IFT Annual Meeting & Food Expo will be held from
June
29th to July 1st in
New
Orleans,
Louisiana and over 22,000
attendees are expected.
In the
News…
- USDEC welcomes eight new
members: Bongards’ Creameries, Challenge Dairy, CoBank, Fort Forwarding, MCT
Dairies, Rabobank International, Shamrock Foods Co. and Swiss Valley Farms
Cooperative.
- Arla Foods will invest
$15 million to increase annual production capacity at its cheese plant in
Hollandtown, Wisconsin.
- BelGioioso Cheese
celebrated the opening of its fifth plant in Freedom,
Wisconsin.
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Cheese & Manufactured Products
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Demystifying the Health Benefits of
Cheese
Finding great-tasting, nutrient-rich
foods can be a challenge for consumers trying to follow healthier diets.
However, taste and nutrition need not be mutually exclusive. Consumers need to
look no further than the cheese case in their local supermarket to find
rich-tasting, flavorful options that offer functional benefits and support
healthy eating plans.
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Ingredients
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Formulating Beverages
with Whey Protein Ingredients
New beverage
introductions in the U.S. have continued to increase in recent years with a
total of 3,231 in 2007, the greatest number of new product introductions in any
food category. Some of the product areas with the highest growth were in the sports and
meal replacement categories, which place a greater emphasis on nutrition. More
beverage companies are focusing their attention on adding nutrition to their new
products. The introduction of product labeling, which highlights dietary
guidelines or specific nutrient goals of a company-wide dietary program, means
that these foods are typically lower in sugar, fat and calories. Often companies
are looking to dairy ingredients to add nutritional value to their products and
much of the interest is focused on protein. Beverage companies are turning more
often to whey proteins for their unique functionality and excellent nutritional
properties.
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Nutrition
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Dairy
Products for Infant Nutrition
Newborns and infants
have unique and critical nutritional requirements. In order to meet those
requirements the World Health Organization (WHO) exclusively recommends
breast-feeding as the sole nutrition source for the first six months of life.
Human milk is the perfect food for infants and it’s a well-known and accepted
fact that breast-feeding reduces infant mortality and has benefits extending far
into adulthood. Breast-feeding is recommended for children up to 2 or more years
of age with the addition of complimentary food sources after 6
months.
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Meet USDEC's Members
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Downes-O’Neill, LLC
Downes-O'Neill is a
dairy market brokerage group and risk management consulting firm. They offer
purchasing services for CME futures, options and forward
contracting.
Humboldt Creamery
Humboldt Creamery is
the oldest continuing dairy farm co-op in California. They began exporting
dairy products over 10 years ago and reported nearly $60 million in sales for
2007.
Rice Dairy
Brokerage firm Rice Dairy specializes in dairy commodities
purchases and market guidance. Their services are designed to help dairy buyers
in the “institutional management of price risk”.
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More from USDEC
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USDEC 2007 Annual
Report - Unprecedented: Markets, Demand, Delivery
“Unprecedented” is the theme of the
U.S. Dairy Export Council 2007 Annual Report, because there has never before
been a year equivalent to last year's export
growth.
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