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Precision Bio-Catalysis for Superior Flour Performance

In the modern industrial bakery, achieving the “perfect bake” transcends simple flour quality; it is a complex exercise in process optimization. Fluctuations in raw material variables—such as damaged starch levels, endogenous protein strength, flour ash content, and water absorption capacity (WAC)—can significantly destabilize production. Furthermore, inconsistencies in mixing rheology and fermentation kinetics often lead to unwanted variations in the finished product. To mitigate these challenges, GEBAKE specialized baking enzymes serve as high-efficiency processing aids. These biocatalysts enable bakers and improver formulators to maintain batch-to-batch uniformity across diverse manufacturing plants and varying seasonal wheat crops, specifically within high-throughput industrial lines. Value Engineering through Enzymatic Solutions By integrating GEBAKE targeted enzyme systems, manufacturers can optimize several critical performance parameters:
  • Dough Rheology & Machinability: Enhances extensibility and elasticity, ensuring stable dough performance on high-speed dividers, moulders, and sheeters.
  • Fermentation & Proofing Tolerance: Delivers predictable yeast activity and proofing stability, even under fluctuating fermentation conditions and variable ambient temperatures.
  • Oven Spring & Structural Symmetry: Improves CO₂ retention within the gluten–starch matrix, resulting in superior loaf volume, improved symmetry, and a refined, uniform crumb grain.
  • Hydrophilic Freshness & Extended Shelf-Life: Utilizes targeted amylolytic activity to reduce amylopectin retrogradation, slowing staling and maintaining crumb softness over extended storage.
  • Clean-Label Optimization: Enables reduction or replacement of synthetic emulsifiers and chemical oxidants, supporting clean-label strategies while maintaining peak structural performance (subject to regional regulatory frameworks).

Gebake solutions for Baking improvers are designed to enhance dough strength, extensibility, and process tolerance across a wide range of bread and bun formulations.

By stabilizing fermentation and dough handling, bread improver formulations deliver reliable performance, better line efficiency, and consistent finished product quality.

Applications:

Dough strength, extensibility & machinability | Improved fermentation tolerance | Enhanced volume, crumb structure & softness | Extended freshness and shelf life |
Consistent performance across flour variations

GEBAKE solutions support flour mills in delivering consistent flour performance despite seasonal and wheat-quality variation. Our systems help improve flour standardization, dough rheology, and downstream baking consistency, enabling more predictable results for industrial bakeries and improver manufacturers.

By optimizing functional performance in the flour stage, mills can reduce customer complaints, improve repeatability, and supply flour that performs reliably across applications.

Applications:

Flour correction & standardization | Improved water absorption and dough rheology | Better baking consistency across wheat batches | Enhanced performance in downstream bakery applications

GEBAKE enzymatic solutions for biscuits, wafers, and crackers are designed to support consistent dough handling, controlled spread, and uniform texture in low-moisture bakery systems.

Our systems help improve process stability during mixing, sheeting, and baking, ensuring predictable dimensions, surface appearance, and bite characteristics. By optimizing dough behavior and bake performance, manufacturers can achieve uniform crispness, reduced breakage, and repeatable quality across high-speed production lines.

al collagen ingredients suitable for food, nutrition, dietary supplements, and pet nutrition applications, while supporting process optimisation and sustainable by-product valorisation.

Applications: 

Sweet biscuits | Cream biscuits | Hard and soft dough biscuits | Crackers and savoury biscuits | Wafer sheets | Wafer cones | Filled and coated wafers | Snack crackers | Specialty and high-fiber biscuits

The pasta and noodle market demands consistent dough performance, smooth processing, and stable cooked texture, especially under variable wheat and semolina quality. GEBAKE™ enzyme solutions are designed to support pasta and noodle manufacturers by improving dough and sheet stability, extrusion and sheeting efficiency, reduced stickiness, and uniform bite after cooking.

GEBAKE enzyme-based systems help deliver repeatable quality, improved process control, and consistent finished products across fresh, dried, and instant pasta and noodle applications—making GEBAKE™ a reliable choice for modern pasta and noodle production.

Applications:

Instant noodles (fried / non-fried) | Hakka noodles and chowmein noodles | Fresh noodles (chilled / short shelf-life) | Dried noodles | Vermicelli / seviyan (wheat-based) | Macaroni | Spaghetti | Pasta sheets (for lasagna-style products) | Ready-to-cook noodle and pasta meal kits

Industrial Bakery Troubleshooting: A Diagnostic Guide to GEBAKE Solutions

In large-scale production, minor fluctuations in raw materials can lead to major line stoppages.
Use this diagnostic guide to identify the specific enzymatic “interventions” required to stabilize your process and protect your product quality.

Challenge: Raw Material Variability & Seasonal Inconsistency
  • The Problem: Fluctuating flour lots, varying protein strength, and seasonal wheat changes lead to unpredictable dough behavior.
  • Enzymatic Strategy: Alpha-Amylase & Xylanase Complexes.
  • Target Outcome: Standardized dough rheology and consistent performance across batches, regardless of the flour source or environmental conditions.
  • The Problem: Dough is too resistant, causing cracks during sheeting, shrinkage in pizza/biscuit production, or poor moulding.
  • Enzymatic Strategy: Bacterial Protease.
  • Target Outcome: Controlled protein relaxation and improved extensibility, allowing for seamless sheeting and perfect product symmetry.
  • The Problem: The dough lacks the integrity to hold gases, leading to collapse or “slumping” during the final proofing stage.
  • Enzymatic Strategy: Glucose Oxidase & Lipase.
  • Target Outcome: A reinforced gluten-lipid matrix with enhanced gas retention and superior fermentation tolerance.
  • The Problem: Poor oven spring results in a heavy, small loaf with a tight, unappealing crumb structure.
  • Enzymatic Strategy: Hemicellulase (Xylanase) & Fungal Alpha-Amylase.
  • Target Outcome: Optimized starch conversion and water redistribution for maximum oven spring and a light, aerated crumb.
  • The Problem: Products lose their “just-baked” softness within hours, leading to a dry mouthfeel and shorter retail shelf life.
  • Enzymatic Strategy: Maltogenic Amylase.
  • Target Outcome: Inhibition of amylopectin retrogradation, ensuring long-term crumb softness and premium freshness retention.
  • The Problem: Dough adheres to dividers, rollers, and belts, causing mechanical “hiccups” and hygiene issues.
  • Enzymatic Strategy: Optimized Xylanase & Lipase Blends.
  • Target Outcome: Precision water management and controlled surface viscosity for high-speed machinability and cleaner equipment.

Technical Summary for Formulators

Observation

Potential Root Cause

Recommended Enzyme Intervention

Cracked Crust

High starch damage

Alpha-Amylase blends

Small Loaf

Poor gas retention

Glucose Oxidase + Xylanase blends

Crumbly Texture

Fast staling

Maltogenic Amylase blends

Shrinking Biscuits

High gluten tenacity

Protease blends

BAKING

Improving Dough Handling & Stability

Enzymes such as amylases, proteases, and lipases enhance dough strength and elasticity, improving mixing and shaping properties for products like sandwich bread, burger buns, pizza bases, and flatbreads. They break down complex starches and proteins, improving dough extensibility and fermentation tolerance. This leads to smoother production, reduced stickiness, and consistent dough quality, essential for both artisanal and industrial baking operations.

Enhancing Volume, Softness & Shelf Life

Baking enzymes improve loaf volume, create a soft crumb texture, and enhance crust color in bakery products such as cakes, pastries, croissants, and laminated dough products. Amylases release fermentable sugars to boost yeast activity, while xylanases and cellulases modify fiber components to create a tender crumb. These enzymes also delay staling, ensuring products remain soft and fresh for an extended shelf life, reducing returns and food waste.

Clean Label & Cost Optimization (Gluten-Free & Wholegrain Breads)

By reducing or eliminating chemical improvers and emulsifiers, enzymes offer natural, label-friendly solutions for bakery products, including gluten-free and wholegrain breads. Enzymes help improve dough stability, water absorption, and crumb softness naturally, aligning with clean-label and health-focused consumer trends. They also reduce dependency on costly additives while delivering high-quality baked goods, supporting both cost efficiency and sustainable production.

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