Fresh Dairy Products
Meadow Foods is the UK's largest independent supplier of fresh dairy products to the food and drink market. Our product range includes cream, anhydrous milk fat, butter and cultured products.
Cream
Growing consumer demand for skimmed milk and semi-skimmed milk means the volume of available excess cream in the UK has increased dramatically in the past decade.
Meadow Foods is the UK's largest cream processing business - handling more than 100,000 tonnes of cream processing each year.
Anhydrous Milk Fat (AMF)
AMF is produced exclusively from fresh, pasteurised cream. Using state of the art dairy processing techniques, the milk fat is separated and extracted from the cream to create a clear yellow liquid, which is used for creating ice cream, chocolate and soft spreadable butters. It can also be used in reconstituted milk.
The quality of the cream processing means that the final product is 99.8% milk fat and contains no more than 0.1% water. This high quality AMF is either supplied as liquid milk fat or chilled until it becomes solid milk fat so that it can be stored and transported more easily.
Butter
Butter is a key ingredient in a wide range of foods from bakery goods, pastry and sauces to ice cream, confectionary, soups and ready meals.
As one of the UK's largest butter manufacturers, Meadow Foods supplies many of the UK's leading food manufacturers with the butter they need to add flavour and structure to their food.
Our products include sweetcream butter which is churned from fresh pasturised cream and can be supplied as salted butter or unsalted butter. We also produce lactic butter or sour cream butter which has a sharper taste.
Cultured dairy products
Cultured dairy products are made by adding culture pellets to cream, fermenting and incubating. At our state-of-the-art Peterborough dairy processing site, we make a wide range of cultured dairy products including yoghurt and fromage frais. Our products are also used by manufacturers in a variety of foods such as sauces for ready meals.