Sponsored by J&K Ingredients. Creativity has always been a fundamental part of food. The industry is constantly looking for ways to build something groundbreaking and eye-catching from simple ingredients. What’s interesting is when new technology comes into the mix. Say for instance, 3D food printing customized strawberries filled with chocolate ganache. In this BAKED [...]
Sugar is one of the absolutely essential bakery ingredients for just about any baked good. First and foremost, it adds that flavor all us sweet tooths love. Yet it is so much more than just a sweetener with many key uses in baked goods. Sugar functions in baking as: Food for yeast: during fermentation to [...]
Butter Cookies What are Butter Cookies? Butter cookies are one of the most consumed cookies around the world. They are made with simple ingredients such as butter, wheat flour, sugar, and less frequently, eggs. These cookies resemble English tea cakes and Scottish shortbread. 1 Danish butter cookies sold in round tin cans [...]
Nutri-Score Also known as 5-Colour Nutrition label or 5-CNL What is Nutri-Score? The Nutri-Score, also known as the 5-Color Nutrition label, is a nutritional rating system that was selected by the French government in March 2017 to be displayed on food products. The Nutri-Score label is based on a 5-color coded scale [...]
Let’s talk sweeteners for a minute. You want one that has a distinct flavor and favorable color. Oh yeah, it be great if it’s healthy and possibly clean label! These days there are plenty of options of sweetness. But if you relate to the description above, brown rice syrup may be a good choice for you. [...]
Do you have issues trying to prevent mold on your product? Or maybe some of your baked products later have a small amount of water gathered? Water activity is one of the biggest reasons why breads and pastries have fast mold growth. So on today’s podcast Richard Charpentier and Dr. Lin answer your mold [...]
Allulose What is Allulose? Allulose is a novel reduced-calorie sweetener for the food and beverage industry. It is a ketohexose monosaccharide with the scientific name D-ribo-hexulose, or just D-psicose. It is about 70% as sweet as sucrose. It provides only 10% as many calories as sucrose (0.4 calories per gram).1,2 [...]
Fillings What are Fillings? Fillings are key ingredients in many bakery products such as creams, fondants, chocolate, truffles, pralines, caramels and many more. They are incorporated into a variety of pastries and desserts such as donuts, layer cakes, eclairs, pies, turnovers, sandwich-cookies or savory baked goods to impart unique: Color Taste Texture [...]
Cake Donuts Also known as chemically-leavened doughnuts What are Cake Donuts? Cake donuts are amongst the most iconic and most popular U.S. bakery products. They are made from a cake batter that is chemically-leavened and fried to develop its traditional taste and aroma. Given their formulation and processing, cake donuts are one [...]
Maltodextrins What is are Maltodextrins? Maltodextrins are products of partial hydrolysis of starch. They are used as: Bulking agents Carriers for flavors Sweetness reducers ‘Gram by gram’ sugar/fat replacers They are classified based on their dextrose equivalents (DE) which range from 3-20. The higher the DE, the more extensive is the hydrolysis [...]
