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Major Whey Products Markets — 1976

Whey Products Institute, Chicago, IL 60606

ABSTRACT

In reviewing the subject of major whey products markets for 1976, I would like to present various data tabulated by the Whey Products Institute (WPI) relating to total whey supply, quantities processed for utilization as human food and animal feed, and the major end-use markets for these whey products.

Since organization of the WPI in 1971, we have estimated yearly figures representative of total U.S. fluid whey production, corresponding equivalent whey solids, and the percentage of these whey solids which were "further processed" into products either for human food or for animal feed. Our estimates were based upon cheese production, and so fluid whey and whey solids are referred to by type — sweet-type from cheddar-like cheeses and acid-type from cottage cheese. summarization of these figures is in Table 1.

Let us compare U.S. fluid whey and whey solids production, as estimated by WPI, for 1975 and 1976. For 1975, total production of fluid whey was estimated at 29.5 billion pounds, 25.3 billion pounds of sweet-type and 4.2 billion pounds of acid-type.