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QUALITY ASSURANCE

Care for quality raw materials and quality processing

Mlekarna Planika is 100% owned by farmers. We decided to buy milk only in the area where we live, and that this will be our specialty

Our milk is exclusively local, coming from hilly areas from the Soča Valley and the Idrijca Valley. In addition to farmers, we cooperate with other local providers and thus form local stories and innovative products. Our Soča cheese with smoked trout or Dobra misel with wild oregano are just two examples of this cooperation.

In order to ensure safe products, we pay great attention to choosing the best raw materials, materials, and processes. We are aware that adequate human nutrition is essential.

Through our products, we aim to provide our consumers with safe and delicious food.

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We want to provide consumers with healthy and tasty products that follow the knowledge and tradition of our ancestors.
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A long tradition of dairy farming and cheese making in the Soča valley region

The first records on the production of Tolminc cheese date back to the 13th century. As a millennium ago, mountain pastures of the Soča region have been grazed and the Valley has been cultivated. The tradition of cheese making in the upper Soča Valley is still very lively and genuine, old recipes are respected. Tolminc cheese holds a protected designation of origin.
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Local milk from Soča and Idrijca valleys

We buy and process exclusively local milk from surrounding farms from the hilly areas of Tolmin, Kobarid, and Bovec and peripheral areas of the municipalities of Kanal, Nova Gorica, Cerkno, and Idrija. Organic milk is obtained from our organic property in Bovec. Our partners are the Agricultural Cooperative Tolmin and the Agricultural and Forestry Cooperative Idrija. Nature in the hilly area and unspoiled pastures are a guarantee for high quality of our milk.
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Milk preserves natural milk properties

In Mlekarna Planika, we try to process the milk as little as possible so that it preserves natural milk properties. Our milk is NON-HOMOGENIZED and PASTEURIZED, so it does not need to be cooked. The most important in pasteurized, non-homogenized milk is that all harmful microbes are destroyed in the process, while all the essential properties of raw milk are preserved.
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Maturing of cheese on wooden shelves

The maturation of our cheese takes place under controlled conditions on wooden shelves, as our ancestors did. We turn the cheese manually every day. We are one of rare companies who turn the milk into cheese with a natural crust, such as Tolminc or Planika cheese. The key to success is conscientious and daily care of cheese during the process of maturing.
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Butter is made according to the traditional method, in butter churn

All dairy products of the Planika Dairy are natural and genuine in their composition. They are distinguished by a special, specific taste, which is also the result of traditional recipes in milk production and careful further processing.
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Hand-packed and not pureed cottage cheese

Tolmin cottage cheese is hand-filled with the intention of preserving its lumpy texture.
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Albumin cottage cheese follows an over 100-year tradition

Our albumin cottage cheese is made from sweet whey and contains a high proportion of high-grade milk proteins, such as albumin and globulin. It is therefore easily digestible. Production is not serial, but in smaller quantities. With this, we imitate what they have always done on the mountains of the Soča Valley region.
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Pasteurized, non-homogenized milk

All our products are made of pasteurized and non-homogenized milk. Pasteurization is a process of heat treatment of milk at a temperature of 65 ° C to 85 ° C. Because pasteurization destroys all harmful microbes, the milk does not need to be boiled, so retains its natural properties.

Certificates

,,Selected quality Slovenia,, for all our products

The designation “selected quality” for milk and milk products is intended for labelling foodstuffs from the dairy and milk processing sector, the raw material of which is produced and processed in Slovenia. This symbol ensures that the product has special properties and is regularly controlled.

Designation organic

The EU official logo for organic food can be used by anyone who qualifies for organic production and processing laid down in Council Regulation (EC) 2018/848, and has obtained the certificate from an authorised certification body. It provides the consumer with a guarantee of the origin and quality of foods. Since July 2010, this label is mandatory for all pre-packaged organic food products within the European Union, and the voluntary use of the label for non-prepacked organic foods produced within the EU or for all organic products imported from third countries is also permitted.   

        

Protected designation of origin for the Tolminc cheese

This sign means that agricultural products and foodstuffs with a designation of origin are closely linked to the area, the name of which they bear. In order for agricultural products and foodstuffs to be labelled as designations of origin, they must satisfy the following conditions:

  • Production and processing must take place in the defined geographical area, the name of which the product bears.
  • The characteristics of such an agricultural product or foodstuff are significantly influenced by the geographical environment, which includes natural and human factors such as climate, soil quality, local knowledge, and experience.
National trademark of protected designation of origin

The national trademark “designation of origin” is borne by agricultural products and foodstuffs originating in a particular region, place, or country.

Awards

Številne prejete nagrade za naše izdelke so dokaz, da so izdelki, proizvedeni v Mlekarni Planika, resnično kakovostna živila.
Special prize for innovation 2023
Awards the prize Healthy Nutrition - Institute of Nutrition

Yoghurt with Spruce Tip Syrup

Special prize for innovation 2022
Awards the prize Healthy Nutrition - Institute of Nutrition

For Kefir with vitamin D3

Grand gold medal 2020
Awards the prize Awards the prize Agra – International evaluation of milk and milk products
Gold medal 2021
Awards the prize Awards the prize Agra – International evaluation of milk and milk products
Grand gold medal and gold medal 2019
Awards the prize Agra - International evaluation of milk and milk products

At AGRA 2019, Fair of agriculture and food in Gornja Radgona, we received a GREAT GOLD medal for our pasteurized and non-homogenized Milk Planika 3.5% milk fat at the international assessment of milk and milk products.

Gold medal 2018
Awards the prize Agra - International evaluation of milk and milk products

For pasteurized, non-homogenized milk Planika 3.5% milk fat

At AGRA 2018, Fair of agriculture and food in Gornja Radgona, we received a GOLD medal for our pasteurized and non-homogenized Milk Planika 3.5% milk fat at the international assessment of milk and milk products.

The best food consumer choice 2018
Awards the prize The Journal Finance - Agrobiznis 2018 competition

Cheese Dobra misel

The Journal Finance has been running this competition for several years. In the Agrobiznis 2018 competition, 24 candidates were selected to win three categories. The expert commission chose the best entrepreneur in agriculture and the most innovative food, while Internet voters of Finance and Agrobiznis selected the best domestic product. They also awarded special recognition for the development of new technologies and methods of production.

Mlekarna Planika received the highest number of votes for the Dobra misel cheese, through online voting in the category of voting for the best domestic product.

At the award ceremony, they wrote: “With the cheese Dobra misel, Mlekarna Planika continues the story of genuine dairy products from the Soča valley, from where all the ingredients originate. The basis for this is Cheese Kober, which is made of milk from mountain farms in the Upper Soča region. It is strongly sweet, but wild oregano gives it a pleasant aroma. Wild oregano is called dobra misel (kind thought) in Slovenia and this is where the name of this cheese originates from. Wild oregano in the mountains of the Soča region is collected by a local herbalist, and the dairy Mlekarna Kobarid buys it from her.

Special prize for innovation 2018
Awards the prize Zdrava prehrana - Inštitut za nutricionistiko

Received Mlekarna Planika

Our company is the recipient of a special Innovation Award 2018 for promotion of local food production and processing.

At the award ceremony, the Institute wrote:

“Mlekarna buys and processes exclusively milk produced in hilly local areas. This way, it contributes significantly to the cultivation of agricultural land, preservation of the industry, and local employment. They pay special attention to fresh pasteurized milk, which has a characteristic full-bodied taste due to its production method. This is influenced by animal nutrition, breeding practices, and hilly buying area, where livestock graze in the summer and are fed with high quality forage in the winter. Such milk is also an excellent raw material for a variety of dairy products, to which, with a great deal of innovation, interesting local ingredients are added.”

 

Innovation 2017
Awards the prize Healthy Nutrition - Institute of Nutrition

ORGANIC yoghurt with hemp oil

The Innovation Award in the Dairy Group Organic yogurt with hemp oil belongs to the line of organic products of Mlekara Planika and is the first such product on the Slovenian market. In 2017, the Institute of Nutrition has selected the most innovative of its forty-seven proposals. The seven winning foods produced in Slovenia and marketed for the first time in the past year, bear a special label ‘innovation 2017’. We are proud that our Organic yogurt with hemp oil is among them. This label has a special weight, since it cannot be obtained otherwise than through participation in the selection process, with recognizable benefits for consumers, and is awarded by a group of experts at the Institute.

Gold medal 2017
Awards the prize Agra - International evaluation of milk and milk products

For pasteurized, non-homogenized milk Planika 3.5% milk fat

At the 31st assessment of milk and dairy products, our milk was again excellent at the 55th international Agra fair in Gornja Radgona.  International evaluation of milk and dairy products within the AGRA fair is the largest and most influential international evaluation in Slovenia.

Gold medal, silver medal, bronze medal 2016
Awards the prize Agra - International evaluation of milk and milk products

Milk PLANIKA 3.5% milk fat / Soča cheese / Cheese with hemp

At the 30th assessment of milk and dairy products, our milk was again excellent at the 54th international Agra fair in Gornja Radgona.  We received gold medal for pasteurized, non-homogenized milk Planika 3.5% milk fat. The silver medal was awarded to the Cheese with smoked trout and Chest with Hemp, and the Bronze medal to Organic yogurt with hemp oil. Evaluation of milk and dairy products within the AGRA fair is the largest and most influential international evaluation in Slovenia.