Sports nutrition is no longer a market of niche products for body builders and athletes. Regular consumers are also finding the benefits of high-quality protein and balanced nutritional intake in their active lifestyle, including the maintenance of muscle mass, and healthy weight management.
At the same time, consumers are increasingly knowledgeable about food additives, and demand natural and GMO-free choices in nutritional supplements. Valio’s traceable milk protein and whey protein ingredients, our expertise, recipes and processes help improve the profitability of your sports nutrition products and nutritional supplements in the market.
Let’s exercise with high quality sports nutrition together!
With the right nutritional ingredients, you can produce sports nutrition products that support maximum exercise performance and recovery.
Milk has the ideal protein composition to maintain the muscle mass in an active human body. Milk minerals and salts support muscle activity during exercise. You can easily increase the protein level of your products with Valio Eila® lactose free milk powders. Our solutions team can help you find the right high-quality milk proteins and correct dosages and processes to produce sports nutrition with the optimal nutritional values.
High-quality milk proteins stimulate muscle growth and enhance recovery from exercise
Minerals and salts support muscles during exercise
Easy to increase protein level with Valio Eila® lactose free powders
With the right natural ingredients, you can produce gut-friendly sports nutrition products and nutritional supplements to meet the needs of those interested in digestive wellness.
Milk powders are great ingredients in various nutritional and dietary supplements, as milk is an ideal source of natural nutrients. The challenge is that the majority of the adult population loses the ability to digest the milk sugar lactose which is present in large amounts in traditional milk powders. By reducing the lactose content of your products, you can reduce gastro-intestinal discomfort in lactose intolerant people, whether they know about the condition or not.
Gut-friendly features of the Valio Eila® lactose free milk powders:
Many people exercise to achieve and maintain the desired weight level or balanced body composition. With the right milk and whey protein ingredients, you can excel in the booming market for well-being products supporting an active lifestyle.
Valio milk powders are a great source of the proteins, minerals and vitamins needed for reaching healthy weight and maintaining it. Our solutions team helps you find the protein ingredients, dosages and recipes that work best for your dietary products.
Features of Valio Eila® lactose free milk powders for weight management food products:
With Valio’s all-natural pure ingredients, you can provide your health-conscious consumers with products that naturally enhance health and wellness.
Valio Eila® lactose free skimmed milk powder has a higher mineral and vitamin content than standard skimmed milk powder. It has multiple aspects of enhancing the normal functioning and metabolic of the human body:
Muscles and bones
Blood and circulation
Nervous system
Immune system
Skin health
With the right milk-based ingredients, you can optimize the mineral composition of your sports nutrition products and nutritional supplements for improved bone health.
You can make it easier for people to consume adequate amounts of minerals and protein using Valio Eila® lactose free skimmed milk powder. Valio’s experienced experts help you find the right high-protein ingredients and correct dosages for your health food applications.
Bone health benefits of the Valio Eila® milk powder’s mineral composition:
VALIO EILA® milk powders include a broad range of lactose reduced products. Great taste and properties for food industry applications.
Valio whey powders are produced from the highest quality – fresh whey from our own cheese plants. Powders are fully traceable to origin.
Valio has long experience in manufacturing milk powders, always using responsibly sourced milk from our own dairy farmers in Finland.
Valio base powders for baby foods are manufactured from Valio’s own fresh milk and whey in a new state-of-the-art facility.
Award winning Valio butter is produced to match the current trends - natural purity, craftsmanship, provenance and high quality ingredients.
Valio cheeses are made of the best natural ingredients and dedication to flavour and quality.
The manufacture of fruit and berry fillings, marmalades and jams takes place at Valio’s large, specialised facility at Suonenjoki, Finland.
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Download info packageProtein is known as providing a multitude of dietary benefits, with the demand for new, innovative, protein-based products growing steadily, year by year. To be able to meet and exceed the needs of our customers, now and in the future, it’s worth looking at the global food trends that are shaping behavioural changes on a daily basis.
Read more ›People at different points in their life benefit from protein in different ways when they eat foodstuffs that contain protein as part of a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle. You should pay attention to your protein intake for example if you are on a diet, want to control your weight, work out actively or are ageing.
Valio provides year-round, high-quality ingredients for various applications such as special nutrition, bakery, baby food and confectionary. These ingredients are produced in the Nordic climates of Finland and distributed globally.
We at Valio can break the common misconception that because a product is lactose free it might also be flavour free.
Sugar is increasingly overtaking fat and salt as a primary consumer concern, especially as high sugar consumption is blamed for rising obesity rates.
Consumers are increasingly aware of E numbers and food additives. Also the health and wellness trend and sugar taxes challenge the food industry to reduce sugar, salt and fat. Valio’s natural ingredients enable all this while preserving the delicious taste of baked goods.
Consumer base for sport nutrition is expanding rapidly form athletes to all consumers with active lifestyles. There is a significant opportunity to develop sport nutrition products to the wide consumers base of every day sporty people.
Health-conscious consumers demand a combination of indulgence and healthiness from confectionery and chocolate products. Valio’s patented technology and GMO-free ingredients allow reduced sugar and increased protein products to be made with superior taste and texture.
Active older adults are foodies with huge potential for consumer segment specified products. Target for healthy ageing is clear, but there are very diversified needs and motives guiding the food choices and preferences. This gives significant potential to develop special nutrition products to meet the evolving needs of elderly.
Rising demand for products that suit consumers’ free from or health and wellness agendas are the market drivers also in dairy. Consumers prefer products with better nutritional values like higher protein or reduced sugar. At the same time lactose free trend is growing.
Baby foods must meet the existing regulations and the local nutritional recommendation for healthy development. We have solution for help you with balanced nutrition. Efficient and accurate recipe design and calculation to produce optimal composition for your needs.
Global demand for lactose free products has increased significantly during the last few years. We have solutions to help you in production of lactose free products.
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