Cultures, enzymes, yeast

Sustain is calling for a full declaration of artificial additives on supermarket bread labels

Campaigners renew call for fresh supermarket bread

By Rod Addy

Campaigners have renewed calls for tougher regulation of supermarket bread after Australian supermarket Coles was fined AU$2.5M (£1.3M) for making misleading claims about its par baked bread.

Kevin Brennan: 'People continue to rethink their meat eating habits'

Quorn sees January sales surge

By Rod Addy

Quorn Foods has attributed a surge in sales over January to increased demand for more sustainable diets.

The effects of bacteria on the gut will be discussed at the conference

Probiotic industry value set to reach £29bn

By Nicholas Robinson

Sales of probiotic food, drink and supplements are set to reach £29bn by 2018, as consumers seek food-based answers to health issues, according to one expert commentator.

New yeast puts sunshine in loaf

Lallemand is using its loaf

By Nicholas Robinson

Bread and other yeast-leavened bakery products can become sources of vitamin D with Lallemand’s VitaD baker’s yeast, following market authorisation from the European Commission (EC).

Crisis in the Ukraine underlines the need to step up food security, said Meurig Raymond

Crisis in Ukraine forces up world wheat prices

By Nicholas Robinson

Political instability in the Ukraine has reinforced the UK’s need to increase its own food security and production, National Farmers Union (NFU) president Meurig Raymond has warned.

Consumers are more concerned with calories and fat than salt

Slash the salt

By Michelle Knott

Yeast extracts are helping food firms slash the salt, reports Michelle Knott

Enzymes keep cake soft and fresh for longer

Layer bake

By Alyson Magee

Authentic taste, clean-labels and cost cutting must all be constituents of modern baking, reports Alyson Magee

All-purpose improver with natural taste

All-purpose improver with natural taste

Puratos has developed enzyme technology for its S500 bread improvers to enable them to be used in all bread applications and a wider range of process conditions.

Enzyme cuts the cost of wheat

Enzyme cuts the cost of wheat

Flour improving specialist Mühlenchemie's new enzyme compound Pastazym Plus has been designed to enhance the quality of pasta and deliver cost savings - irrespective of wheat quality.

Some acrylamide-preventing yeasts have yet to be released

Invisible helpers

By Lynda Searby

They rarely appear on labels, but enzymes can produce very visible results for product developers. Lynda Searby reports

Bredmose is sure Chr Hansen will win its gut and immunity claims

Culturevulture

By Lynda Searby

Lars Bredmose speaks candidly to Lynda Searby about Chr Hansen's probiotics strategy in a hostile regulatory climate

Enzymes: processing aids or ingredients?

EU enzyme scrutiny could open up GM ‘can of worms’

By Paul Gander

Fresh efforts by the European Commission (EC) to clarify the status of food enzymes as ‘processing aids’ or ‘ingredients’ could reopen the vexed question of labelling genetically modified micro-organisms (GMMOs) in food, according to one regulatory expert.

Enzymes are guar gum substitute

Enzymes are guar gum substitute

DSM is deploying its enzyme toolkit to develop innovative ways to replace guar gum in bakery products. The firm says the effects of guar gum for thickening, binding and improving texture can be replicated using a combination of enzymes and ingredients....

EFSA confirmed that GM maize produced in 2010 had no negative effects on humans, animals and the environment

GM maize strain given EFSA all-clear

By Dan Colombini

No negative effects on human and animal health or the environment can be traced to a trial of genetically modified (GM) maize strain which produces insect toxin, according to research from the European Food Safety authority (EFSA).

Cut monoglyceride costs by 30%

Cut monoglyceride costs by 30%

AB Enzymes has launched the most recent addition to its Veron baking enzyme range: a monoglyceride replacer called Veron GMS+.

Beyond the gut: probiotics

Beyond the gut: probiotics

By Anne Bruce

The benefits of probiotics for digestion is well publicised, but research on their other strengths is growing, as Anne Bruce reports

Yeast strain offers hope in fight against acrylamide

Yeast strain offers hope in fight against acrylamide

By Elaine Watson

Canadian firm Functional Technologies is seeking partners to help commercialise a radical new approach to tackling acrylamide formation in baked goods based on a proprietary strain of yeast.