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dafa : An expert in baking

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As a supplier of ingredients and improvers for baking, dafa has generated keen interest among French and European industrialists thanks to its positioning as an expert in cereals. Through its products, dafa offers its customers solutions adapted to their needs. Here are some details.

dafa is a brand that is 90% dedicated to industrialists. Its mission: offering industrial solutions via its range of bread improvers, which correct flour and improve the performance of dough and product texture. For example, they can be used to prevent dough from sticking, shape baguettes more easily, produce more tender products, reduce fat content or enhance taste.

Understanding and optimizing
This means not only supplying appropriate ingredients, but also offering our customers targeted solutions, whether their needs are linked to an industrial process or consumer tastes. Its knowledge of genetics and breeding through Limagrain provides dafa with a unique position in its field and recognized skills. Our work consists in characterizing the raw material, wheat, understanding the different components of flour and optimizing them to find additional functions for natural ingredients.
“Natural“ is a quality that is increasingly prized by consumers and, consequently, by food industries. Hence there is increased demand for more natural, authentic solutions. With its innovative product range, dafa is tackling its customers' current problems in the areas of nutrition, reducing additives or lowering production costs. Thus, the brand proposes a range of additivefree improvers called "Clean Label“. These ingredients allow industrialists to achieve the same functions as they could with traditional additives. For example, “dafa crisp croissant CL” is for flaky yeast pastries, such as croissants, and improves crispness. “dafa soft viennois CL” improves the tenderness and freshness of brioche. “dafa soft bread CL” is for pre-packaged sandwich bread and improves tenderness while preserving the elastic quality of the crumb during the product's life cycle.
Similarly, dafa has developed “gluSAFE”, an additive-free functional ingredient that reduces gluten content by 40 to 60%. The presence of gluten in flour is an important factor in the cost of producing baked goods. This innovative product improves the consistency, elasticity and strength of dough, as well as the volume of breads.

dafa's products serve as a remarkable showcase for its skills and knowledge. Innovation, new functionalities, authenticity and natural goodness…these are the watchwords that serve as guidelines for all LCI product ranges.

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