New product releases: From plant-based cheese spray to Nestlé’s spicy evaporated milk

US-based Credo Foods claims to have created the first oat milk-based spray cheese. Available in Cheddar and Smoky flavors, the product took more than three years of R&D to develop because the company wanted to avoid using artificial preservatives in the formulation. As a result, both flavors are oatmilk-based and contain coconut oil, corn starch, plant-derived lactic acid, nutritional yeast, plus a range of stabilizers and natural flavor and color additives.

The Credo Foods Oat Milk Cheeze can be purchased directly from the company’s website as well as HEB and Wegmans and retail at around $7.16.

Nestlé’s first ever flavored evaporated milk

Nestlé released a jalapeño-flavored limited-edition run of its Carnation Evaporated Milk. Infused with natural jalapeño flavors and available directly from the brand’s website during three limited edition ‘drops’ in June and July, the product was designed to coincide with this year’s Mac’n’Cheese Day in the US and was distributed as a kit that included a mac’n’cheese recipe by US food influencer Tini Younger, a can of the original Carnation evaporated milk, and a $25 gift card to purchase all the recipe ingredients.

 Puck’s limited-edition zaatar cream cheese

Another limited-edition release, Arla Foods cheese cream brand Puck has launched Zaatar Cream Cheese in a jar. Available in Middle East markets including UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and Lebanon, the product will be presented in a new 450g jar and aims to provide ‘convenience and to add something fresh and exciting to the breakfast table’, according to Arla Foods regional marketing manager, Katrina Davison.

Yaza’s Mediterranean labneh

US manufacturer Yaza Foods is expanding the distribution of two labneh flavors to select Whole Foods Market stores nationwide. The company’s Plain and Za’atar & Olive Oil dairy spreads are being rolled out across the grocery retailer’s national stores.  

The products contain gut health-promoting probiotics and are made according to a traditional recipe by straining pasteurized cultured milk and salt through a cheesecloth and the manufacturer uses whole milk and salt from a creamery in the Catskill Mountains.