Optimize Natural Mold Inhibitor Performance.
Extend Bread Mold-free Shelf Life.
Improve your production and consumer appeal.
Bartek is continuously pursuing new innovative uses for malic and fumaric acids, such as Uphold™ Clean: an acidulant-based ingredient technology that can be paired with natural mold inhibitors (NMIs) to optimize bread shelf life and improve overall quality.
Elevate your bakery portfolio with Uphold™ Clean
Partner with Natural Mold Inhibitors
Extend mold-free shelf life
Optimize Shelf Life and Customer Appeal with Reduced Costs and Better Flavor
An ingredient system that is simple to implement and is an easy way to address consumer needs
Promote Product Differentiation
Help your bakery product stand out on-shelf longer
Intention
Partner with Natural Mold Inhibitors
Keeping bread mold-free and fresh as long as possible while on-shelf helps enable more flexibility and less waste during distribution, in storage, and at the home. Additionally, delicious baked goods must deliver on consumer expectations of freshness with pleasant softness, aroma, and taste profiles.
Formulators utilize many different methods for bread preservation. The current industry-standard preservative, Calcium Propionate (CalPro), is not considered a clean label ingredient, therefore natural mold inhibitors (NMIs) are used as a clean label alternative. Commonly used NMIs are a category of fermented/cultured carbohydrates that are produced using inputs such as wheat, starch, dextrose, or whey.
Rising demand from label-conscious consumers to eliminate ingredients like CalPro has prompted North American bakeries to increase their use of NMIs. Despite this, NMIs cost more by weight and require a higher level of use to achieve the shelf life comparable to when CalPro is used. These factors result in a very high cost in use, limiting the applicability of NMIs in the market today.
Furthermore, using NMIs can impart unpleasant sensory attributes to baked goods, particularly in terms of flavor and aroma. These negative attributes can be especially noticeable at the high levels necessary to successfully extend shelf life in breads. Consumers continue to demand baked products that offer them great eating experiences and long shelf lives, and thankfully, Uphold™ Clean can help bakers achieve just that.
Uphold™ Clean helps maintain shelf life while using less of the primary preservative.
It can also extend shelf life by boosting performance of the preservative system without needing to add more of the primary preservative.
Possibilities
Optimize Shelf Life and Consumer Appeal with Reduced Costs and Better Flavor
Uphold™ Clean is an easy to use, drop-in, clean label ingredient system that simplifies formulation balancing to optimize shelf life and provide a practical, safe, and uniform delivery of active ingredients. All this while maintaining the desirable sensory qualities and clean label that consumers demand.
Uphold™ Clean helps to sustain shelf life and boost performance of the preservative system while using less NMIs. Therefore, it helps bakers and formulators reduce costs and improve overall system performance.
Moreover, Uphold™ Clean minimizes the off-flavors and aromas associated with natural mold inhibitors. The incorporation of Uphold™ Clean helps offset negative taste attributes associated with NMIs and other preservatives while maintaining a clean label of ingredients. It provides softer texture, increased volume of finished products, improved yield through increased dough water absorption, and enhanced process efficiencies due to reduced dough mixing time. The result is a more desirable product for the final consumer.
Elevate your product portfolio with Uphold™, Bartek’s acidulant-based ingredient technology
At Bartek, we apply lessons from our decades of experience with acidulant applications in the food and beverage industries to address today’s challenges in the bakery industry. Our Uphold™ Bread Preservation Technology ingredient systems represent our commitment to innovate solutions that create value for and address the needs of commercial bread formulators and manufacturers.
We would love to share some of our commercial success stories and have case studies of how our innovative systems are being utilized to improve the value and profitability of baked goods. Please download our white paper by filling out this form, and then reach out to us to schedule a call by emailing info@bartek.ca.
