Ingredients for bread & morning goods
For the manufacture of high-quality baked goods, one depends on high-quality ingredients and there are as many requirements as there are businesses. No matter whether malts, sourdoughs, improvers or mixes – as your partner for aroma and taste, we serve as your number one idea provider. At the same time, we leave all the space you wish for your individual creativity. By means of our malthouses, sourdough production, our own agricultural trade and a comprehensive service package, we provide you with know-how from the mere grain to the finished piece of baked goods – and beyond.
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The raw material malt is a natural one. With flavouring characteristics such as caramel, roasted or spicy, it can cater for a wide range of applications in achieving a distinctive taste. But malt is capable of more! In addition to improved dough development, using malt leads to an attractive crust and crumb as well as an optimised freshkeeping of baked goods. This holds true for bread and rolls just as much as for confectionery baked goods!
What is extraordinary about IREKS: As a manufacturer of baking ingredients, we possess our own malt and malt extract production and have hence every processing stage in our hands. Rye, wheat, spelt and barley make the basis of most various malt products: in flour form and paste-like, liquid, light or dark-coloured.
Using sourdough offers advantages: ideal dough processing properties, invariably high baked goods quality and a taste full of aroma. That is why IREKS has turned towards sourdough about 100 years ago. Today, we manufacture our sourdough based on this long-term experience according to the traditional three-stage method. Selected lactic acid bacteria and a strictly monitored sourdough production lead to ideal conditions when it comes to the desired fermentation.
Beside the manufacture of tried and tested variants like wheat, rye or spelt sourdoughs, IREKS is always thinking up new ideas. Rediscovered raw materials such as green spelt or buckwheat produce remarkable sourdough varieties and taste adventures.
The proper product for your concept! Compensation of harvest-related variations with regard to flour quality or optimisation of baking and processing characteristics are just a couple of starting points in our mission to make good things even better. In addition to sourdough and malt products, IREKS offers manyfold mixes and improvers, suitable for your individual demands. Thanks to our batch-oriented production, we can react to specific needs in a flexible way. In this way, we manufacture a variety of products with special features.
In some contexts, less can really be more! Thinking of lactose-free, palm oil-free, additive-free, egg-free, sugar-free or vegan – the “Free From” trend becomes increasingly relevant! And the good news is: Doing without specific ingredients does not necessarily mean to do without a rich taste. Our “Free From” product range allows us to provide our customers with opportunities for enjoyment when relying on a special diet due to intolerances or in order to support people’s general well-being. In this connection, we opt for a highly developed allergen management as well as a self-contained, batch-based production. Quality controls at every production stage are decisive when it comes to the manufacture of high-quality and perfectly safe baking ingredients.
Gluten-free diets – pre-eminently essential for coeliac disease sufferers – are becoming increasingly popular. More and more people make the conscious decision to avoid gluten in their food. We have been providing support to our customers in this connection since 1995 already, by offering a comprehensive gluten-free range. Manufacturing baking ingredients without gluten is a considerable challenge – not only because gluten, as a texture-providing protein, has a significant influence on baking properties. Product safety has top priority at IREKS. In this spirit, we carefully select gluten-free ingredients processed in our self-contained batch mixing system. In this way, we safely exclude the risk of cross-contamination. Finally, and to be absolutely certain, our products are tested in our IREKS IQ Centre.
Beside taste, foodstuffs are also evaluated according to the added value they might provide. Dairy products, mueslis or fruit juices, for instance, tend to be available in versions enriched with vitamins, mineral nutrients or protein and the like. Grain used in baked goods offers many a valuable ingredient by nature which can be easily combined with the concept of “added value”. In this spirit, IREKS provides support to bakeries offering specific products that can be used to produce baked goods including excellent taste as well as added value.
In connection with the Muslim religion, food has fundamental meaning. For this reason, its selection and manufacture are subject to strict regulations. IREKS has thus offered a range of halal products for many years now. An imam determines all relevant aspects and implements them accordingly in the production process when it comes to corresponding certifications. The cultivation of raw materials as well as their certification or the special cleaning of production facilities can be exemplarily named in this regard. Our company-own agricultural trade and the production of our baking ingredients in a self-contained batch mixing system facilitate the implementation of the relevant regulations.
