It plays a vital role in helping to meet the world’s nutritional needs now and into the future.
Right now, we share trusted, sustainable dairy nutrition of New Zealand with customers and consumers through our world-leading core dairy products and advanced nutrition ingredients.
But we’re also looking to the future, bringing together nature and science to unlock more of that potential. Meeting changing consumer needs and lifestyles with new experiences, flavours and formats.
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At Fonterra we believe that our sustainable dairy goodness from New Zealand provides vital nutrition that will help people lead better lives.
Together with our nutrition policies, standards and guidelines we have a framework in place, called our nutrition identity, that ensures the continuous improvement, reporting and the governance of nutrition right across our Co-operative.
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*New Zealand Food Composition Database. 2022. The Concise New Zealand Food Composition Tables, 14th Edition 2021. The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited and Ministry of Health www.foodcomposition.co.nz/concise-tables/. We always encourage you to have a balanced & varied diet. Qualified healthcare professionals are the best source of information for the matters related to your health and nutrition.
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There have been many questions, myths and misconceptions about milk and dairy products over the years. Ever wondered what to believe? We’ve got the science and the facts right here.*
*We always encourage you to have a balanced & varied diet. Qualified healthcare professionals are the best source of information for the matters related to your health and nutrition.
Plant-based beverages are not nutritionally equivalent to cow’s milk. For example, cow's milk packs 4x the protein of an oat beverage.
People with lactose intolerance do not need to avoid dairy products altogether. In fact, reducing your lactose intake, rather than avoiding it completely, is recommended, with cheese containing very low levels of lactose and well tolerated.
The human body has evolved genetically over thousands of years to produce lactase, the enzyme that helps us digest and tolerate lactose, which is the sugar found in milk.
Processing doesn’t make any significant changes to the unique nutritional goodness that milk provides. You can be sure you’re still getting an important source of high-quality nutrition and making a meaningful contribution to your daily nutrient requirements.
Research has found it would be a serious challenge to find a suitable replacement for milk. Milk is making a massive contribution to the supply of key nutrients – it's the greatest single contributing food source for calcium, vitamin B2, dietary fat and lysine availability.
To get the same amount of calcium contained in one 250ml glass of full-fat milk you would have to eat either: 2.5 cups of boiled spinach or 6 cups of boiled broccoli or over half a cup of almonds.
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