Tasty quality
Tasty quality
We monitor taste, quality and safety at every step of the way through safety, quality and taste controls on our ingredients, semi-finished products and finished products globally.
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.
Milk is one of the ingredients that gives Kinder products its 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.
The journey starts at the farm where the 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.
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.
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 to a temperature of 72°C for a few seconds to kill any harmful bacteria and extend its shelf life.
The milk is separated into cream and skim milk, which are recombined in specific proportions in some of our recipes – like Milk Slice or Pinguì – all within 48 hours from milk production.
For some of our recipes, like Kinder Chocolate or Kinder Surprise, we need dried milk. In this case the liquid pasteurised milk is dried through a technique called spray drying, that removes nearly all its water content turning it into a powder.
Both the liquid pasteurized milk and the powdered milk are then transported to our factories, ensuring that they always remain in optimal conditions, and are then mixed with the other ingredients in the different Kinder recipes to create the Kinder treats that you love.
- Europe
- NAM
- HCO
- International
- 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.
