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Calibrating Thermal Profiling Equipment
Thermal profiling equipment is a key tool to know how heat transfer equipment, such as ovens, dryers, proofers or freezers, operate. It doesn't really matter what type of product you make, or if you have a small or large operation. What really matters is that you are...
Preventing Listeria in Food Production
There’s a lot of pathogens and bacteria that can be passed on though food. One particularly big one in the food industry is Listeria, a gram positive, non-spore-forming motile foodborne pathogen. It can be especially present in ready-to-eat food production. How can...
Can Whole Wheat Bread Taste Good?
I think we've finally reached a point where everyone realizes the benefits of whole wheat bread over white bread. Wheat grain can reduce the risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Whole wheat flour also has higher antioxidant activities...
Bulk Up Your Baking with Insoluble Fiber
Insoluble fiber falls under the dietary fiber heading, and offers a big health punch to products. It helps with digestion, reduces serum lipid levels and adds no calories! With the FDA defining more of what can be labeled as "dietary fiber," bakers have more options...
Do You Know What Your Ingredients are Doing?
Wouldn’t it be great to know your ingredients are doing just what they are supposed to do at just the right time? Thanks to encapsulated ingredients, we can! This really comes in handy for products like sorbic acid which are virtually impossible to use without...
Stay Golden: 4 Egg Wash Substitutes
Egg washes are frequently used in bakeries to add a finishing-touch glaze to breads, pies, pastries and more. However, from rising egg prices to an increase of vegan products, many are searching for reliable egg wash substitutes. What kind of replacements are there?...
Wondering How to Make a Successful Clean Label Product?
You’re not alone. Products with natural and simple labels are in greater demand than ever, and it looks like clean label products are sticking around for awhile. At first, it may seem overwhelming and difficult to remove ingredient standards from formulas. But fear...
Modernize Artisan Bread with Benchmark Technology
Artisan breads are unique, natural and tasty. Items in this category include crusty baguettes, pretzel buns, focaccia and naturally leavened multigrain bread. They use simple ingredients and are often described as country style or rustic. When thinking about these...
Amylase: The Group of Enzymes that Improve Shelf Life
Enzymes are the champion of natural solutions for dough improvers. Different types, or groups, have different functions, however. Today, we’re going to take a look at Amylase. What’s Amylase? It’s a family of starch-degrading enzymes that work together to improve...
A Sustainable Plant Protein that’s the Complete Package
Looking for an innovative, sustainable way to add more protein to your baked goods and food products? Meet Lemnaceae, or water lentils. It’s commercially produced and sold as LENTEIN® by Parabel. Water Lentils are considered to be the world’s smallest flowering plant....
Fine Tune Your Kill Step With This Tool
The kill step. Sounds pretty intense...and it is. It’s the absolutely necessary point when harmful pathogens, like Salmonella spp., are eliminated. And it has to be absolutely effective to ensure baked goods are safe to eat, plus have a proper shelf life. And you need...
Sustainable Chocolate in the Baking Industry
As bakers and food producers, it’s important to know what’s going on in the world around us. Especially when it’s about the state and future of our ingredients. In the late 1990s, some of the stakeholders in the cocoa industry realized crops were at risk due to pests,...
Do You Have a Foreign Supplier Verification Program?
Validating kill-step reduction of Salmonella is one part of the new Federal Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) bakers should be aware of, but there are other provisions and requirements to keep in mind. Such as FSMA Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP),...
Creating Effective Sanitation Plans
Shelf life in baking is always a big topic. How far can you push your product? Whether you’re trying to increase your time, or just last a few days, you HAVE to look past your ingredients. Look at: Sanitation Plans Keeping equipment, surface areas, floors and air...
Exploring the Sourdough Library
Have you ever wondered how sourdough flavors can differ so much, even when the same ingredients are used? This is because sourdough starters differ in microbiology, depending on the culture used. And depending on the culture, the final taste and aroma will change. The...
