Do you take your coffee with milk or with oat milk sheet? 🙂 

Some brands are turning liquid products into dissolvable sheets to cut down on water use, packaging, and emissions. If you don’t know what dissolvable sheets are, they’re dehydrated, edible films that dissolve in water to create liquid products like milk.

Take Veganz, a German plant-based brand. Their Mililk Organic Oat Barista comes in 2D-printed sheets that are slim enough to fit through a mail slot. 

Since traditional plant-based milk cartons are up to 97% water, these sheets dramatically reduce packaging weight and materials. Mixing one with tap water creates creamy oat milk, and a pack of 20 sheets makes up to 5 liters. 

Image from Veganz’s website showing the size of the packaging and the oat milk sheets.

This design keeps its environmental footprint low. The packaging is 85% lighter, uses 94% less material than conventional cartons, and takes up less space. 

By removing excess water, it also lowers transportation emissions. Plus, with a 12–24 month shelf life, users can mix only what they need, reducing food waste.

And it’s scaling fast—since launching in 2023, Veganz has secured €10M to increase production fivefold. The idea is catching on in the U.S. too, with Milkadamia planning to launch its own flat-pack oat milk in 2025.

Both brands use Vitiprints’ patented technology to turn liquids into fast-dissolving sheets, cutting packaging waste and transport emissions. The patent covers a dissolvable sheet made of multiple layers that break down in just 3 to 15 seconds.

This is just one example of how dairy and dairy alternatives are evolving. But innovation comes with real challenges—keeping formulations clean without sacrificing texture, reducing waste without compromising shelf life, and scaling new ideas while staying cost-efficient.

That’s why we put together a report on 8 key trends shaping dairy like fixing texture issues in plant-based milk and using AI to improve production. 

The way dairy is made, packaged, and formulated is changing fast. See which trends are set to have the biggest impact on dairy: https://www.greyb.com/blog/dairy-industry-trends/