Puratos' leading sourdoughs can support you in creating high-quality baked goods with delicious signature flavours. When it comes to baked goods, taste and naturalness are key factors when consumers are making purchase decisions. Sourdough can be the perfect ingredient for naturally enhancing the taste and aroma of all types of breads, pastries and cakes.
Our sourdough range provides satisfaction and convenience for artisan and industrial bakers alike. As leaders in sourdough, we've been helping customers develop fresh, tasty and high-quality baked goods for over 25 years.
What is sourdough and how is it used in bread and other baked goods?
Sourdough is a natural leavening ingredient consisting of flour and water. Also known as bread starter, levain, masa madre, lievito naturale or Sauerteig, sourdough gives baked products their structure and taste. Micro-organisms within the sourdough use the starch and minerals found in flour to ferment and increase the volume of bread, while organic molecules create the flavours.
The flavour molecules that are naturally created in sourdough make it possible to add different sourdoughs to baked goods in order achieve enhanced or more well-rounded taste profiles. For example, if you’re looking to add a slight sourness in a pizza crust, stronger buttery notes in pastry, or a long-lasting fresh taste in a packaged rolls, Sapore sourdoughs can naturally enhance these flavours.
What are the advantages of using sourdough?
Sourdough offers a natural form of leavening that enhances the taste and nutritional value of baked bread products. In this way, it satisfies the demands of customers looking for tasty, healthy breads made from natural ingredients. Sourdough also enables bakers to vary their breads, as different types of sourdough bring out different product qualities.
At Puratos, we believe that the future of bread lies in its past. Over the years we’ve developed expertise in natural fermentation and knowledge of baking cultures from all over the world. Drawing on this knowledge, we’ve created Sapore – a range of natural bakery sourdoughs that provide consistent quality, convenience and exceptional diverse flavours.
Living sourdough made in the UK
We're able to meet the UK's growing sourdough demand with living sourdoughs made in the UK with ingredients from British flour millers. We combine years of fermentation expertise with up to date consumer insights to meet our UK customer's current and future sourdough needs.
