Kiri

Empower excellence
with kindness

Kiri® is known for its unmatchable taste and inimitable quality. The Kiri® and Kiri® Professional brands bring comfort and pleasure to consumers and food service professionals across the globe. It is the number one cream cheese of choice for many chefs because it allows them to achieve delicious results, consistently.

Kiri

Unwrap a moment of Kindness

The magic of Kiri® lies in its simplicity and the careful way it is crafted, delivering a unique sensory experience known as “Kiri-ness”. Four key qualities contribute to this delicious experience: Kiri®’s white appearance, its smooth mouthfeel, creamy milky aroma, and its slightly sour and salty taste.

The natural ingredients used to make Kiri® shine through in its soft creamy texture and comforting taste, providing a delicious eating experience.

Your guests can also enjoy some nutritious indulgence with the iconic Kiri® portions during several occasions throughout the day.

Craft a taste of kindness

Kiri® Professional is renowned as a superior cream cheese brand and is the top choice for pastry and dessert chefs worldwide. Kiri® Professional has a soft creamy texture, an unmatchable flavour and is made with natural ingredients.

Kiri® Professional was developed to serve foodservice professionals in the out-of-home market, providing them with the means to delight consumers with indulgent creations that make life taste sweeter.

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An instant success when launched almost 60 years ago

In 1966, Bel broke new ground when it launched Kiri® in France – it was the first cheese made specifically for children. The aim was to delight and nourish little children with delicious square servings of creamy Kiri®. It proved an instant hit and it wasn’t long before the brand also found success overseas.

Today, Kiri® delights consumers of all ages in many corners of the world, including Asia and the Middle East. The Kiri® Professional brand was launched in recent years to allow chefs to bring the unique taste and characteristics of Kiri® to delicious culinary creations.

A highly versatile culinary ingredient with a unique taste

Kiri® is known for its inimitable taste – a fresh smooth cheese with a creamy texture and the perfect balance of saltiness that is highly prized by chefs around the world. The Kiri® Professional brand includes a large range of products that enable delicious results, consistently. They’re unique and versatile ingredients available in a large range of sizes and formats, which bring a touch of indulgence to pastry, dessert and savoury creations.

They also bring many functional benefits to the professional kitchen. For example, Kiri® Professional Cooking & Spreading is an ideal base ingredient, which makes mixing and incorporating ingredients easy in practically every application. It’s also ideal for spreading on bagels, sandwiches, wraps and stuffed breads, while adding a satisfying texture to soups and sauces. It’s perfect for low temperature baking too.

The preparation of professional kitchen staples such as whipped cream and icing are also made easy with Kiri® Professional. The brand brings a welcome taste and high stabilising element to both.

Kiri® Professional cream cheese blocks are available in a range of sizes and give great structure to multiple creations, including a whole range of cheesecakes, ice cream and delicious creamy toppings for beverages like tea.

creamy texture
easy mixing

A great thing about Kiri®
is that it is a simple product
that is so versatile.”

Heyam Abdelhadi
Chef Counselor Bel
Near and Middle East

Kiri sustainability

Harnessing the goodness of nature

Bel is committed to high standards of animal welfare and respecting the environment. The milk we use to make our delicious Kiri® cream cheese comes from local farms, located less than 200km from our production plant in Sablé-sur-Sarthe in France.

We partner with farmers who feed their cows non-GMO hay and cereals and give them access to grazing on fresh pastures. The advanced milk standardization process we use ensures consistent quality, combined with a high-quality manufacturing process that culminates in the unique “Kiri-ness” experience.

Cream is another key ingredient in the production of our delicious cheese. Again, only the highest quality cream is chosen, made from a combination of milk from our partner farms and other dairy producers who adhere to very high standards.

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