Substitution is no longer a trend but a solution for the future, reinventing the taste, color, and texture of products.
ID Ingredients, Grands Moulins de Paris's ingredient brand dedicated to manufacturers in the bakery, pastry, and catering industries, once again participated in the CFIA trade show from March 4 to 6, 2025, at booth C 35 in hall 4 in Rennes. We showcased our full range of technical and sensory ingredients, including ideal solutions based on cereal ingredients and malt extracts to help you create new products and meet current market challenges.
Malt extracts: a new textural and taste experience
Every day, working in synergy with the subsidiaries of the VIVESCIA group, ID Ingredients is committed to developing safe, high-quality, and cost-effective ingredients and products tailored to our customers' needs. Our century-old milling expertise and knowledge of the grain market, our mastery of the manufacturing process from grain to finished product, and our ability to create customized formulations enable us to offer ingredients that generate solutions for our customers.
The ID Ingredients brand has therefore joined forces with Diamalteria Italiana, a subsidiary of Malteurop within the VIVESCIA Group and an expert in barley malt extracts since 1909, offering solutions tailored to the needs of the food industry.
A range of malted ingredients for numerous applications
We offer roasted barley malt flour in powder form as well as malt extracts in various forms, including "liquid," "spray," and "crystals," with several levels of enzymatic potency and color nuances to suit all needs and applications: baking, pastry making, beverages, cereal bars, ice cream, chocolate, etc.
Malt extract is obtained through a rigorous selection of grains mixed with water using a grain extraction process based on over a century of expertise. A small amount of malt extract gives each recipe a distinctive character and unique flavor. In baking, for example, malt extracts provide:
– A unique taste: malt extract enhances and boosts the aroma by adding characteristic notes of malt, caramel, hazelnut, and honey.
– A unique color: the amino acids and sugars in malt extract allow for intense, uniform coloring in less time during cooking.
– A specific texture: malt extracts mainly affect the dough, thanks to the sugars and enzymes naturally present in the extract, which have an effect on softness and make the crust crispier.
DIACHOCO: malt extracts combined with cocoa
In a tense market context, faced with price volatility and the lack of availability of certain raw materials, the agri-food sector has the opportunity to reinvent itself by focusing on alternative ingredients such as malt extract to continue delivering high-quality products. When used in combination with cocoa, malt extract enhances the aromatic nuances of cocoa, making desserts and baked goods even more intense and indulgent.
DIACHOCO was created to meet this market need: a range of malt extracts that enhance and/or reduce the amount of cocoa in recipes, ensuring a rich taste experience. It consists of four products with unique flavors and colors: DIACHOCO "crystal" and "spray," two brown products with notes of cooked fruit, plum, and smoke, and DIACHOCO DARK "crystal" and "spray," two dark brown products that amplify the toasted and smoky notes already present in cocoa. Whether in a pastry or a chocolate cake, the combined use of the intensity of cocoa and the sweetness and acidity of malt propels baking and pastry-making toward new interpretations, offering a perfect balance between tradition and innovation.
“Hey Bro!”: the new innovative brownie mix
Faced with the volatility of cocoa prices and the challenges this poses in terms of availability, "Hey Bro!" is a brownie mix that offers a ready-made, practical solution on the market. Our membership in the VIVESCIA Group, a leading French grain cooperative, guarantees us complete control over the grain supply chain and a variety of ingredients derived from wheat, corn, and malt. Thus, by combining the expertise of three companies within the Group, "Hey Bro!" is designed with:
– 100% French wheat flour from Grands Moulins de Paris, produced using its century-old milling expertise,
– Kalizea toasted corn germ flour, produced by cooking corn germ, which adds delicious notes of hazelnut and toasted cereal to recipes and gives them a unique flavor profile,
– and Diachoco Dark Spray malt extract from Diamalteria Italiana, specially designed to work in synergy with cocoa to achieve an unexplored flavor: notes of toasted malt, vanilla, and umami.
The preparation is formulated, produced, and blended by ID Ingredients at the Grands Moulins de Paris mixing station in Briare (45).
Customized solutions for every project
Thanks to Grands Moulins de Paris' expertise in formulation, production, and blending, ID Ingredients offers innovative solutions that meet the specific needs of our customers: texturing, cleaning, stabilizing, flavoring, coloring, replacing, and more. From the initial brief to sampling and pilot production, through the design and laboratory testing phases, we start with your specific needs to create customized solutions that are ideal for each product. To do this, the company has built its model around providing comprehensive support at every stage of the customer's project to ensure its smooth implementation.
Our customers can rely on the expertise of experienced professionals who demonstrate agility and efficiency. Our Product Innovation Development team draws on its expertise in BVPT and our synergies with the VIVESCIA Group companies to create formulas that combine our technical and sensory ingredients: sourdoughs, malt extracts, functional flours, etc. Our technical experts work closely with manufacturers to ensure effective integration into production lines, so that products meet customer expectations and optimal processes are defined. In collaboration with these teams, our marketing department organizes Our customers can rely on the expertise of experienced men and women who demonstrate agility and efficiency. Our Product Innovation Development team draws on its expertise in BVPT and our synergies with the companies of the VIVESCIA Group to create formulas combining our technical and sensory ingredients: sourdoughs, malt extracts, functional flours, etc. Our technical experts work closely with manufacturers to ensure effective integration into production lines, so that products meet customer expectations and optimal processes are defined. In collaboration with these teams, our marketing department organizes innovation days in line with current market challenges and consumer expectations.ID Ingredients thus helps manufacturers optimize the costs and profitability of their products and achieve economic gains.
