Skim Milk Powder

Skimmed Milk Powder

Skimmed milk powder is a shelf-stable dairy ingredient manufactured through high-temperature spray drying of defatted cow's milk, providing high protein content (34-37% dairy proteins including casein and whey), essential minerals (calcium, phosphorus), and complete dispersibility for fat-free formulations. In the food industry, it delivers clean dairy solids functionality, excellent solubility in cold reconstitution (<30 seconds), heat-stable proteins for UHT processing, and neutral flavor ideal for bakery standardization, chocolate production, and reduced-fat product reformulation.

Food Industry Applications

• Bakery products: Standardizes dough moisture and protein levels in breads, cakes, cookies, and pastries ensuring consistent fermentation performance, improves crumb structure and volume through casein network formation, extends shelf life without dairy fat rancidity.

• Confectionery: Provides milk solids and structure in sugar-free chocolates, fudge, and caramels contributing smooth mouthfeel without fat bloom, enhances Maillard browning for authentic milk chocolate color at 10-20% addition, heat-stable during conching up to 80°C.

• Dry mixes and seasonings: Forms instant solubility in soup bases, sauce mixes, and baking blends dissolving completely without fish eyes, improves reconstitution performance in cold water systems, extends ambient shelf life to 18-24 months through low water activity.

• Meat products: Functions as binder and emulsion stabilizer in low-fat sausages, patties, and injection brines improving cook yield by 8-12%, creates thermo-irreversible protein gels post-cooking for slice cohesion, reduces purge loss during vacuum packaging.

• Beverages: Reconstitutes into skimmed milk bases for RTD coffees, milk teas, and nutritional drinks providing authentic dairy mouthfeel without fat separation, excellent foam stability for lattes through whey protein denaturation control.

• Dairy and frozen desserts: Thickens yogurt cultures and ice cream bases without adding fat, stabilizes whipped toppings and mousses creating 150-200% overrun, prevents lactose crystallization during freeze-drying processes.

Other Industry Applications

In pharmaceuticals, serves as tablet excipient and protein fortifier; in cosmetics, creates protein-rich hair conditioning masks and skin firming creams; in personal care, provides mild exfoliation in facial scrubs; in industrial uses, functions as adhesive in paper coatings and animal feed nutrition.