Bakery

Puratos has developed Puraslim: a fat alternative that improves the nutritional values of breads and cakes by lowering calories and fat while keeping the taste. In blind taste tests consumers were satisfied with reduced fat products, and the buying intention increased significantly when additional information was given on the lower fat content. …

Puratos is proud to announce the new and improved S500 bread improver range. Based on Puratos patent-pending enzyme technology and freshness enzymes, the new S500 gives superior dough tolerance, outstanding volume and improves the fresh characteristics of the final bread. True to its tradition S500 continues to offer absolute peace of mind and the best quality. …

The owner of Save-A-Lot in Wellsville, OH, Nemenz plans on turning the former MacDonald Elementary building in the village into the Ohio River Bread Company. The business will be a wholesale venture designed to provide bakery items to distribution centers and retail markets in Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. …

Excellent Packaging & Supply, an innovator and distributor of sustainable, biodegradable, nature-based packaging for foodservice and other applications, is helping Acme Bread of Berkeley, Calif. make a bold environmental statement by enabling the famed bakery to switch to 40 percent post-consumer waste paper bread bags for all in-store retail packaging of its artisan breads. …

The American Bakers Association (ABA) and 89 other groups urged Congressional leadership to let the refundable Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) expire and to resist calls for spending on infrastructure for conventional biofuels. VEETC is a 45-cent-per-gallon federal tax credit for fuel blenders that purchase and blend ethanol with gasoline. Started in the 1970s, the program provides federal support to the domestic ethanol industry. …