Tasty quality
Tasty quality
We monitor taste, quality and safety at every step of the way through controls on our ingredients, semi-finished products and finished products globally.
Our quality tasting panel involves over 2000 expert tasters around the world, to verify and guarantee the taste excellence and consistency of our products.
Milk is one of the ingredients that gives Kinder products their unique taste. That’s why we take great care to get it just right, closely following its journey from the farm to our treats.
The journey starts at the farm where cows are milked.
The fresh milk is immediately refrigerated in tanks to slow down bacterial growth and maintain its freshness.
The cooled milk is stored in large, insulated bulk tanks at the farm until it is collected.
Specialised insulated tanker trucks collect the milk from farms, keeping it cool during transportation. Milk is typically collected within 24 to 72 hours from milking to ensure its freshness.
Upon arrival at the dairy, the milk undergoes rigorous quality testing for factors like taste, temperature, acidity and contaminants.
The milk that passes the quality testing is pasteurised bringing it a 72°C temperature for a few seconds to kill any harmful bacteria and extend its shelf life.
Before or during pasteurisation, milk is also separated into cream and skim milk, which are later recombined in specific proportions for some of our recipes - all within 48 hours of milk collection.
For other recipes, like Kinder Chocolate or Kinder Surprise, we use dried milk. In this case, the liquid pasteurised milk is dried using a technique called spray drying, which removes nearly all of its water content, turning it into a powder.
Both the liquid pasteurised milk and powdered milk are then transported to our factories under optimal conditions, where they are mixed with other ingredients to create the Kinder treats you love.
- Europe
- NAM
- HCO
- International
- APAC – MEA
Kinder treats are produced in 20 different plants around the world, managed under Ferrero’s rigorous quality system and certified to internationally recognised standards, such as the Food Safety System Certification (FSSC 22000).
Kinder treats are produced in 20 different plants around the world, managed under Ferrero’s rigorous quality system and certified to internationally recognised standards, such as the Food Safety System Certification (FSSC 22000).
