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Natural ingredients. Innovative solutions.

Grande Custom Ingredients Group produces innovative functional whey ingredient solutions that are derived from the finest white Italian cheese made in our own facilities. Through our proprietary processes, we offer all-natural ingredients that improve texture, flavor, freshness, nutrition and mouthfeel in a variety of creamy applications, cheese-based products, sports beverages, processed meats and more.

  • Sustainable, nutritious, functional and ethically sourced
  • Produced with ingredients sourced at our own dedicated Grande producer dairy farms
  • Can be traced from collection to when the finished ingredients show up at your door
  • Exceed the highest quality standards and contribute to your clean-label initiatives

When you combine your toughest formulation challenge with the expertise of our team and specialty ingredients, you’ll get a delicious, wholesome and price-stable product that appeals to today’s demanding consumer.

Explore our innovative ingredients to see which one is best suited for your application!

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Bravo

Partially replace high-fat ingredients like heavy cream and cream cheese while maintaining the product's natural mouthfeel, texture and flavor.

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Durato

Retain that just-baked freshness of cookies, cakes, muffins, bars and pastries throughout their shelf life by replacing other dairy powders.

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Gusto

Obtain all the cheesy goodness by partially replacing cheese or cheese powder, plus reduce sodium by up to 10% without compromising flavor or mouthfeel.

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Festo

Increase yields and improve the quality, texture and umami flavor of your meat applications with this clean-label ingredient, not classified as a filler or binder.

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Primo

Achieve real yogurt taste and texture for a variety of fresh and dry mix applications, and improve nutrition. Available in regular or Greek yogurt flavors.

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Ultra

The best combination of clarity and flavor over a wide pH range available in a whey protein isolate for use in high-protein RTD and RTM beverages.

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WPCrisp

A superior blend of nutrition, flavor, and texture for high-protein snacks and meal replacement bars.

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Frequently Asked Questions

It depends on the product. Grande Bravo partially replaces heavy cream and other high-fat dairy. Grande Gusto partially replaces fresh or powdered cheese. Grande Primo is used in place of regular or Greek yogurt. Contact our formulation team to talk through your challenge.

At Grande Custom Ingredients Group, all of our whey protein products are made following a strict chain of custody and production process that uses zero chemical modifications, additives, preservatives or antibiotics. This results in all-natural whey protein products that can help clean up your nutrition labels with ingredients that are recognizable by consumers.

Grande whey protein products can help you optimize ingredient costs by replacing costly ingredients like fresh dairy. It can also help minimize storage and handling costs. Unlike commodity ingredients, its price remains incredibly stable over time—eliminating the need to reformulate due to unexpected ingredient price fluctuations.

Our whey protein products have no special inventory requirements and don’t require refrigeration, giving them better shelf life than most products made otherwise. — typically up to 18 months.

Grande Custom Ingredients Group takes the quality of our products and the health of your end consumers very seriously. This is why the majority of our whey protein products are available Kosher, Grade A, HALAL, and EU, and all of our plants are certified at SQF Level III.