Create better plant-based cheese alternatives with biosolutions

Better plant-based cheese alternatives

Looking to create better plant-based cheese alternatives? Unlock all the answers inside your raw materials with biosolutions

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The answers to better products are inside

For thousands of years, fermentation has been at the heart of traditional cheese-making. Today, it remains essential to the craft—and is now gaining momentum in the world of plant-based cheese alternatives. Fermentation is key to creating the rich, deep, and complex flavors we know and love.

Better taste
Through fermentation, our biosolutions can help you create rich, complex flavors in your plant-based cheese alternatives. They’ll also help you reduce beany off-flavors.
Protein source
Our biosolution reduces off-notes at higher protein levels, helping you create plant-based cheese that meets the EU “source of protein” claim — where 12% of energy comes from protein —without compromising on taste.
Naturally fermented
When you introduce fermentation into the production process, your plant-based cheese alternative becomes one step closer to traditional cheese making.

Plant-based cheese alternatives – the reality

55% of US consumers follow a vegan, vegetarian or plant-based diet to be healthier. Yet only 4% of global cheese launches in 2024 were plant-based or vegan.¹ This highlights a need for innovation to revitalize the plant-based cheese alternatives category. And biosolutions are the answer.

^{1. IFIC, Food and Health Study, 2024 Mintel (2024): GNDP database.}

What do consumers think?

Consumer expectations for plant-based dairy alternatives are evolving across Europe

59%

of French consumers agree dairy alternatives should resemble the taste and texture of dairy products as closely as possible.¹

^{1. Mintel, Dairy alternatives - Europe - 2022}

30%

of German consumers agree dairy alternatives are too processed.²

^2.^{Mintel, Dairy alternatives - Germany - 2022}

46%

of UK consumers would like to be able to see from the product label whether it is fermented.³

^{3. Novonesis (2024): The role of a healthy diet in US & Europe.}

For consumers, it’s a matter of taste

Consumers want plant-based cheese alternatives that deliver a rich, authentic cheesy flavor. Fermentation plays a key role—it helps reduce unwanted beany or vegetal off-notes and enhances dairy-like taste.