Mitigating business costs through alternative ingredients

Our latest Taste Tomorrow consumer research found that increasing food prices are a top 3 concern for consumers. To save money, people are changing their shopping habits to source cheaper ingredients, which impacts artisan bakeries and the food service. With this in mind, product prices must remain competitive in the current market, and costs must not exceed your target consumers' willingness to pay.

That said, data from our most recent Taste Tomorrow survey revealed that over 40% of people don’t go for the cheapest option for bread, chocolate, cakes, and pastries; they remain with a quality brand that they trust. This highlights the value of your craftsmanship, the importance of not compromising quality, and ensuring that your products are as great as they’ve always been.

At Puratos, we help find solutions. One of those solutions is using alternative, cost-effective ingredients to help mitigate costs while keeping the quality of your finished products high. 

Puratos’ egg reduction solution is ACTI Egg Reduction. It has been developed to keep all finished product properties the same, such as taste and texture so that consumers can’t tell the difference. However, by reducing the number of eggs in the product by 25% (for example) and increasing the water content with ACTI Egg Reduction, you can reduce production costs by up to 16%. 

As well as an egg replacement, we offer an egg wash alternative, Sunset Glaze, a plant-based solution that improves the visual aspect of baked goods. This solution removes the use of eggs in the wash altogether, which, in turn, eliminates the instability of the cost.

Further, glazing your products with Sunset Glaze brings 10% extra yield, allowing you to mitigate costs and stabilize them. 

Read more about our egg and egg wash alternatives here.

This is why, at Puratos, we offer you a direct plant-based butter alternative, Mimetic. It’s an option that is much more convenient to use than its animal-based counterpart, has great workability, and excellent plasticity, and it’ll still give consumers that delicious buttery sensation while saving you up to 30% in production costs.

In addition to this, we have an innovative product that reduces fat in soft & sweet bread recipes by up to 75% - Puraslim. With this solution, you can reduce recipe costs by up to 20% without compromising taste and quality. Moreover, thanks to Puraslim you can improve the nutritional profile of your soft & sweet breads. 

Read more about Mimetic and Puraslim and contact us to find out more. 

Although gluten is almost an essential ingredient in the baking world, it’s also one that’s relatively expensive. Overall, it can amount to 3.5% to 15% of the recipe, depending on what you are baking.

At Puratos, we have developed a cleaner label solution, Intens Gluten Replacement, replacing 3% of the gluten in any recipe without compromising product quality. It’s an easy-to-use, effective alternative that can significantly reduce your production costs.

Find out more about Intens product range.