Cheese

Ultimate cheese? Yes please

If you want to create the ultimate cheese, our dairy experts will help you get there - with our unrivalled portfolio of proven cheese ingredients and solutions.

For example, our cultures for cheese help you boost flavor with appetizingly delicious texture and outstanding sliceability and shredability - all while avoiding the expense of spoilage and increasing your yield. In fact, our cheese solutions support you with acidification, coagulation, biopreservation, coloration, surface protection, and phage management. 

Our cheese solutions also enable you to remove fat and salt. Importantly, we can help you achieve all this in a more sustainable way based on our unique contribution to the dairy ecosystem - which stretches from cow to consumer. If you want to take your cheese beyond the boundaries in taste, yield and functionality, you need a partner that goes beyond cheese. And now, you’ve found one!

Tackling your key cheese challenges

To create great cheese you need a partner that understands the trends driving consumer preference; and knows how to deliver the qualities needed to help you create differentiated products.

Flavor first

Creating the right taste and flavor profile is essential in all types of cheese. But it’s a nuanced and complex process.

Tackling texture

Cheese needs great mouthfeel. But texture is also critical for functional performance like sliceability, meltability and shredability.

Healthier cheese

How can you reduce salt and fat in your products without compromising sensory qualities?

The assured bioprotection for cheese

Protecting your cheese is essential for safeguarding consumers and extending product shelf life.

Yearning for yield

How can you reduce wastage and improve your cheese yield – for the benefit of both planet and profit?

Confident color

You need a partner that understands color; but also understands how it relates to the complexities of cheesemaking.

Cheddar

From process optimization, to balancing taste and texture, to improving shredding and slicing functionality, we’re the perfect partner to change-up your cheddar – and get it just right.

Continental cheese

Whatever your unique needs, our experts can meet them: from easy and affordable solutions like sliced and diced cheese; to premium specialty products with a unique flavor or texture.

Cottage cheese

Specialty ingredients are just the start. Our global team of application experts can also work with you to create the maximum value from both your product development - and process efficiency.

Mozzarella

We’ll help you achieve great baking performance – for example by enhancing the stretch and melt behavior to help solve yet another pizza puzzle! But our solutions can also boost yield and contribute to less waste. 

White brined cheese

Looking to maintain a clean, taste and consistent texture while maximizing shelf life and minimizing food waste? It’s all possible with our highly effective solutions for white brined cheese.

Our ingredients

Bio-gum gellan

Explore our Bio-Gum Gellan below.

Gellaneer®

Biopreservatives

Explore our Biopreservatives below.

Biopreservation range

Dairy Safe™

Delvo®Cid

Delvo®Guard

Delvo®Nis

Delvo®Zyme

Coating and Ripening Solutions

Explore our Coating and Ripening solutions below.

Ceska®Coat & Delvo®Coat

Pack-Age™

   

Color

Explore our Color ingredients below.

Enzymes

Explore our Enzymes below.

   

Flavors

Explore our Flavors below.

Expresa

GB Select™

ModuMax®

Premix Blends

Explore our Premix Blends below.

Process solutions

Explore our Process Solutions below.

   

Pectin 

Explore our Pectin below.

Vitamins, Carotenoids & Micronutrients

Explore our Vitamins, Carotenoids & Micronutrients below.

   

Yeast Extracts

Explore our Yeast Extracts below.

Expresa

Functional blends

Explore our Functional blends below.

Latest news

  • Maxiren®EVO wins World Dairy Innovation Award for Best Manufacturing/Technology Innovation

    19 June 2025

    Maxiren®EVO wins World Dairy Innovation Award for Best Manufacturing/Technology Innovation

  • dsm-firmenich launches Maxiren®EVO: A revolutionary coagulant enzyme for enhanced cheese texture, taste, yield, and functionality

    20 March 2025

    dsm-firmenich launches Maxiren®EVO: A revolutionary coagulant enzyme for enhanced cheese texture, taste, yield, and functionality

  • When art meets science: Using the latest technology for more sustainable and efficient cheesemaking

    25 November 2024

    When art meets science: Using the latest technology for more sustainable and efficient cheesemaking

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