Substitution is no longer just a trend but a forward-looking solution for reinventing the taste, color, and texture of products.
ID Ingredients, the ingredients brand from Grands Moulins de Paris dedicated to manufacturers in the bakery, pastry, and catering industries, once again participated in the CFIA 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 today’s market challenges.
Malt extracts: a new textural and flavor experience
Every day, working in close collaboration 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 deep understanding of the grain market, our mastery of manufacturing processes from grain to finished product, and our ability to create custom formulations enable us to offer ingredients that provide solutions for our customers.
ID Ingredients has partnered with Diamalteria Italiana, a Malteurop subsidiary within the VIVESCIA Group and an expert in barley malt extracts since 1909, to offer solutions tailored to the needs of the food industry.
A range of malted ingredients for a wide variety of applications
We offer powdered roasted barley malt flour as well as malt extracts in various forms—“liquid,” “spray,” and “crystals”—with different levels of enzymatic activity and color shades suited to all needs and applications: baking, pastry, beverages, cereal bars, ice cream, chocolate…
Malt extract is produced 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 profile. In baking, for example, malt extracts provide:
– A unique flavor: malt extract enhances and boosts the aroma by adding distinctive notes of malt, caramel, hazelnut, and honey.
– A distinctive color: the amino acids and sugars in the malt extract produce an intense, even color in less time during baking.
– A distinctive texture: malt extracts primarily affect the dough, as the sugars and enzymes naturally present in the extract enhance the softness and add crispness to the crust.
DIACHOCO: Malt extracts combined with cocoa
In a tight market environment, and in the face of price volatility and shortages of certain raw materials, the food industry has an 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 designed to enhance and/or reduce the amount of cocoa in recipes, while ensuring a rich taste experience. The range consists of four products, each with unique flavor and color profiles: DIACHOCO “crystal” and “spray,” two brown products with notes of baked fruit, plum, and smoke, and DIACHOCO DARK “crystal” and “spray,” two dark brown products that amplify the toasted and smoky notes already present in the cocoa. Whether in a pastry or a chocolate cake, the combined use of the cocoa’s intensity and the malt’s sweetness and acidity propels the bakery and pastry sector toward new interpretations, offering a perfect balance between tradition and innovation.
“Hey Bro!”: the new innovative brownie mix
In light of the volatility of cocoa prices and the challenges surrounding its availability, “Hey Bro!” is a brownie mix that offers a practical, turnkey solution for the market. As part of the VIVESCIA Group, a leading French grain cooperative, we have complete control over the grain supply chain and access to a variety of ingredients derived from wheat, corn, and malt. By combining the expertise of three Group companies, “Hey Bro!” is formulated with:
– 100% French wheat flour from Grands Moulins de Paris, produced using the company’s century-old milling expertise,
– Kalizea toasted corn germ flour, made by roasting corn germ, which adds rich notes of hazelnut and toasted grains to recipes and gives them a unique flavor profile,
– and Diachoco Dark Spray malt extract from Diamalteria Italiana, specially formulated to work in synergy with cocoa to create a unique flavor profile: notes of toasted malt, vanilla, and umami.
The preparation is formulated, produced, and blended by ID Ingredients at the Grands Moulins de Paris blending facility in Briare (45).
Customized solutions for every project
Leveraging Grands Moulins de Paris’ expertise in formulation, production, and blending, ID Ingredients offers innovative solutions tailored to our clients’ specific needs: texturing, cleaning, stabilizing, flavoring, coloring, and substitution… From the initial brief through design and laboratory testing to sampling and pilot production, we start with your specific needs to create customized solutions that are ideal for each product. To achieve this, the company has built its model around providing comprehensive support at every stage of the client’s project to ensure its smooth implementation.
Our customers can rely on the expertise of our experienced team, who are agile and efficient. Our Product Innovation and Development team leverages its expertise in BVPT and our synergies with VIVESCIA Group companies to create formulations that combine our technical and sensory ingredients: sourdough starters, malt extracts, functional flours, and more. Our technical experts work closely with manufacturers to ensure effective integration into production lines, resulting in products that meet customer expectations and defining optimal processes. In collaboration with these teams, our marketing department organizes Our customers can rely on the expertise of experienced professionals who demonstrate agility and efficiency. Our Product Innovation and Development team draws on its expertise in BVPT and our synergies with VIVESCIA Group companies to create formulations combining our technical and sensory ingredients: sourdoughs, malt extracts, functional flours… Our technical experts work closely with manufacturers to ensure efficient integration into production lines, resulting in products that meet customer expectations and defining optimal processes. In collaboration with these teams, our marketing department organizes innovation workshops aligned with current market challenges and consumer expectations.ID Ingredients thus helps manufacturers optimize the costs and profitability of their products and achieve economic gains.
