Trend: Emerging Flavors and Colors
Product: Maltichoc
Maltichoc, a new ingredient designed to enhance chocolate baked goods, while also reducing raw material costs is a blend of roasted malt flours and dried malt extracts. It has a bitter/roasted flavor, with a sweet background flavor. Maltichoc compliments and extends bitter chocolate notes perfectly in a range of baked goods. It also has a clean label, just declare “Barley Malt Flour, Barley Malt Extract.”
Andrew Fuller, Muntons Product Development Technologist, said “A reduction of up to 50% in cocoa powder is possible with the inclusion of our new product ‘Maltichoc’, while seeing no loss of product quality. In fact in our sensory panels many tasters preferred products made using the Maltichoc recipe.” Andrew also added “It’s not just cost saving where Maltichoc performs. The addition of this new ingredient to a value product or to a core recipe instantly enhances the product providing a richer chocolate flavor, and dark chocolate color.”
