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Tasty quality

From ingredient selection
to quality products.

We care about every little detail in the making of our treats. 

This starts with carefully selecting the best ingredients for our recipes. We work together with trusted suppliers and farmers with whom we have often built long-term relationships, to source ingredients responsibly and ensure that their quality meets our standards.

We then combine the ingredients in our factories to create our recipes, leveraging on the expertise we have developed over 50 years, to preserve their taste, texture, flavour, and nutritional characteristics at their best.

our CARE FOR QUALITY

We monitor taste, quality and safety at every step through controls on our ingredients, semi-finished products and finished goods globally. 

Over
3.5 million

quality and safety tests across all our factories per year

Over
2,000

specialist tasters around the world involved in our quality-tasting panel
(to verify and guarantee the taste excellence and consistency of our products)

Over
150,000

taste tests on our KINDER® treats carried out by specialist testers in our laboratories and plants in 23-24 alone

Meet our Taste Experts

Our quality tasting panel includes over 2,000 expert tasters around the world to verify and guarantee the taste excellence and consistency of our products.

The journey of milk: from farm to recipe

Milk is one of the ingredients that gives KINDER® products their unique taste. That’s why we take so much care in getting it just right, following closely its journey from the farm to our treats.

Collection

The journey starts at the farm where the cows are milked. 

Immediate Cooling

The fresh milk is immediately refrigerated in tanks to maintain its freshness.

Bulk Tanks

The cooled milk is stored in large, insulated bulk tanks at the farm until it is collected.

Milk Tanker Trucks

Specialized 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.

Quality Testing

Upon arrival at the dairy, the milk undergoes rigorous quality testing for factors like taste, temperature, acidity, and contaminants.

Pasteurisation

The milk that passes the quality testing is pasteurized, bringing it to a 72°C temperature for a few seconds to kill any harmful bacteria and extend its shelf life. 

Drying process

For other recipes like KINDER® CHOCOLATE or KINDER® SURPRISE®, we need dried milk. In this case the liquid pasteurized milk is dried through a technique called spray drying, that removes nearly all its water content turning it into a powder. 

Transport

Both the liquid pasteurized milk and the powdered milk are then transported to our factories, ensuring that they always remain in optimal conditions, and then are mixed with the other ingredients in the different KINDER® recipes to make the KINDER® treats that you love.

Our plants certification
  1. Europe
  2. NAM
  3. HCO
  4. International
  5. APAC – MEA

KINDER® treats are produced in 20 different plants around the world, managed through our Ferrero rigorous quality system and subject to internationally recognized quality certifications such as the Food Safety System Certification FSSC 22000. 

KINDER® treats are produced in 20 different plants around the world, managed through our Ferrero rigorous quality system and subject to internationally recognized quality certifications such as the Food Safety System Certification FSSC 22000.