• Cheese Ingredients
  • Breaded
  • Cheese Concentrate
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  • Crumbled Natural Cheese
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  • IQF Portions
  • Non-Refrigerated
  • Reduced Fat
  • Reduced Sodium
  • Shaved Natural Cheese
  • Shredded/Diced/Cubed
  • Slices
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• Culinary Ingredients
  • Culinary Sauces
  • Dips & Spreads
• Better-for-You Ingredients
  • Reduced Fat
  • Reduced Sodium

Reduced Sodium

Our reduced sodium cheese ingredients deliver great taste without trade-offs. While developing our better-for-you cheeses, we knew that we had to meet the same high taste standards product formulators expect from our full-flavored products. As a result, Sargento better-for-you reduced sodium cheeses deliver all the flavor you'd expect, without all the sodium.

Depending on your development needs, we offer:

Reduced sodium natural cheese ingredients
Reduced sodium processed cheese ingredients

Reduced sodium natural cheese ingredients

When formulating reduced sodium products, you want to be able to achieve acceptable flavor profiles without having to mask off flavors or give up a clean ingredient statement. Sargento reduced sodium natural cheese lets you create lower sodium products without flavor or label concerns. Although Sargento reduced sodium natural cheese has a sodium reduction of 25%, it does not contain salt replacers or flavor masking agents. (Watch a video about the ingredient development.)

As with all Sargento products, you can expect great flavor and functionality in our reduced sodium natural cheese. We invite you to draw on our cheese expertise and that of our culinary product development specialists when formulating your next reduced sodium application. We'll collaborate with you to ensure that you get the functionality and flavor you need to optimize your end-product quality.

Reduced sodium natural cheese application ideas: salads, meal kits/entrees, pizza, pasta, sandwiches, breakfast items.

Features

Formats available:

Reduced sodium processed cheese ingredients

Most product formulators use processed cheese because of its controlled melting properties and processing flexibility. With Sargento reduced sodium processed cheese, you don't have to give up any of these benefits, because it has all the functionality and flavor of traditional processed cheese without all the sodium. Depending upon application targets, sodium reduction can be achieved at varying levels up to 35%, without the addition of sodium substitutes, which could negatively affect flavor.

The controlled melting properties of our reduced sodium processed cheese are maintained, so the cheese will perform as expected, softening and spreading when heated without oiling off. Our R&D and culinary team will partner with you in your reduced sodium application development to ensure that you have the sodium level and melting characteristics to meet your specifications.

Reduced sodium processed cheese application ideas: breakfast items, sandwich builds, protein toppers, meat inclusions (e.g., brats and hot dogs)

Features

Formats available: (Slices, Shreds, Dices, Cubes and bulk [blocks or tubes])