SupplySide Global 2025: FrieslandCampina Ingredients combines nutrition and indulgence
12 Nov 2025 | FrieslandCampina Ingredients
The growing demand for high-protein, gut health, and GLP-1 companion products is driving FrieslandCampina Ingredients’ latest protein and prebiotic innovations. The company presented a range of functional snacks, drinks, and supplements that combine nutrition and indulgence in Las Vegas, US. Sophie Zillinger Molenaar, global marketing execution lead, tells us more.
This is Elizabeth Green reporting for Food Ingredients First and Nutrition Insight.
I'm here in Las Vegas at Supply Side Global.
I'm with Sophie Zillinger Molinar, who is the global marketing execution lead at Friesland Campmpia Ingredients.
Welcome, Sophie.
Thank you for joining me today.
What can you tell us about what the company is exhibiting at Supply Side Global and why it is important for you guys to be here.
Thank you for that really nice question.
Start with the last question.
It's very important to be really in the market.
We are a global dairy company, but we really want to understand the local insights in the US, especially at this show where we can really see the new trends that consumers like around proteins, prebiotics proteins.
I want to showcase different applications like protein bar we have with our patented technology, we have Texpro.
We have friendly concepts we are promoting and also our prebiotics.
There are a lot of different concepts here on the stand, but we'll go into some of the specific ones that you are kind of responding to as the market.
It evolve.
So you've got your Excelion caseinates that are being adapted to meet the growing demand for G1 products and functional nutrition applications.
What can you tell us about the specific caseinate ingredients?
Thank you for that question.
We see that G1 is really quite a big trend, a trend that is here to stay.
Elent caseinate.
A very important role, can play a very important role in that, and that is for the main reason that our caseinates have a lower release, which is some protein, slower release of the amino acids in the blood.
That means that somebody who is on a GP1 diet really is looking for that satiety, that lowers feel that.
And that is what the caseinate is helping.
Secondly, also, it's very important for your muscle strength.
So if you are on a diet like this like that, that can also affect your muscles cases.
And then lastly, it's really an easy ingredient to work with and works very.
Because it's very easy soluble, so it helps to look for those types of foods.
Fantastic, thank you.
It's a very interesting ingredient.
You also have some high protein bars as , don't you, which you are using Excelion Texpro.
What is the formulation benefits for maintaining soft textures?
In high protein bars over a 12 month shelf life, it could bring some challenges when you formulate a really high protein content type of bar, so up to 30 to 40% is what consumers are looking for, and that can impact the taste and the texture, so the texture.
Could be impacted by these high protein type of bars, meaning it becomes very hard, and our Taro is a casin that helps to avoid that, so it's giving you that really soft and nice taste, chewy taste also where the younger consumers really are interested in like the Gen Z consumers.
It reduces the hardiness, the stickiness, and it gives a great mouth feel.
So that is a variety.
Really great functional benefits.
Our calcium.
Fantastic, thank you very much.
You also have a variety of prebiotics and fermented protein solutions on the stand here.
What can you tell us about these ingredients?
So first of all, is a really great ingredient that you can connect to fertile, and it's very researched by us, so good scientific evidence we have, so clinically substantiated, and why that is important because consumers are becoming more and more educated and more interested in their daily health journey, so they also want to understand the ingredients and how does it work in.
The body, so we have a lot of science also what we do in the US we have the most research in the world and that is really what consumers like.
They really want to trust and understand what.
Secondly, ferment mentis is a very innovative ingredient we launched.
Quite new to the market and it's really new in terms of it's a combination of prebiotic with probiotics fermented together with whey, and it really is tackling the gut muscle axis, so it helps in improving your gut but also your muscle strength, gives you energy, and it's quite new.
It's really a new innovative ingredient and fermented, so consumers are recognized for the fermentation and the.
Health Benefits with fermutation and nicely there is a connecting.
So if you really like to have this really smaller bites, if you really like to have the side effects of the GP1 diet like less muscle strength, maybe some impact on your gut, this is the ideal ingredient to fantastic.
A lot of interesting innovations we've seen that the better for you kind of snacking.
Beverages kind of evolution has changed a lot over the past few years, and we've mentioned a lot of the different trends that are kind of being tied into that.
But how you, how are Friesland Campina ingredients as a company kind of really harnessing those trends and kind of making yourselves stand out from your competitors really look at their diet and nutrition intake.
What is really part of their health journey and they really want to understand better how they can incorporate it in their lives, so to speak.
So proteins is in very high demand for proteins and it really makes a shift from people going to the gym and exercise a lot to very active health concerns and health focused consumers, and they're looking for those proteins around the clock type of.
Proteins that they can take in throughout the day like in the morning with your coffee or like in the afternoon with a healthy snack so you really see that shift.
And what about the kind of sensory expectations of consumers while also still meeting the demands for health orientated products and with clean label ingredients.
Health, healthy products is on one side, but really products with good taste, good texture, good mouth feel, that's super important for consumers.
Health is one thing, but also you need to enjoy your nutrition, so that's an important thing for consumers, and there are ingredients come into play.
One example is that it's very easy soluble, so it's easy to use in different formats, and that can also help to really play and make.
More attractive to consumers and also have a great taste.
So that's connecting fantastic.
And what has the response been with visitors to the stand with the concepts that you've got here on display?
Yes, they feel very much inspired by that.
That's why to be here, to be in the market, to really showcase our application expertise, our science behind it.
To taste it, you need to feel it.
You need to experience it, and that's why we are.
We really have a local team also available.
We make our samples of all our products in here, so really adjusted to the flavoring and the taste and the texture again, preferences of the consumers.
So we feel very much inspired by that.
I have a lot of questions also, so grateful.
Lovely.
Thank you very much for your time, Sophie.
It was great to speak.
