Remarkable Opportunities
Creating tomorrow's bakery succes.
In today’s society consumer trends and demands are ever changing. Zeelandia constantly seeks remarkable opportunities to embark on these trends -like convenience, indulgence, health and responsibility- to help our customers create bakery success.
Make the moist of it.
Bread should be full of flavour and juicy textures. By adding grains and seeds to a dough you drain the moisture, making the bread dry in just few hours. We wondered how we could add more freshness into bread.
Our bakers presented a remarkable solution, allowing grains and other textures to infuse in liquid sourdough. The result is our Silkgrain moisturizer that keeps the bread hydrated and adds the delicious bite and texture. Instead of draining moist, we turned grains and seeds into real freshmakers. Zeelandia is now offering these ingredients as a total solution for bread freshness.
What the fudge!
Here at Zeelandia we never stop wondering. We do not always wait for questions to raise, we are always on the lookout for new trends and opportunities. This is how our bakers discovered an inventive fusion between traditional fudge and pastry.
When applying fudge on pastry such as cakes, muffins and donuts, a thick, rich fudge layer will come as a pleasant surprise. Especially if you are used to a thin, breakable coating. Fudge develops a thin crust which helps avoid cracking and sticking even when defrosted. But it’s getting even better. A thick fudge layer on cakes or pastries remains deliciously creamy, giving the application a unique structure and fancy appearance. Today our fudge comes in different flavours, to help you play around with taste, looks and structure.
Fruitfully full of fruit.
Together with our customers we are constantly exploring inventive ways to create bakery success. That’s why Zeelandia’s great tasting Fruitful range is not only full of fruit, taste and texture. It is also full of ideas and business opportunities. Our customers can ask more than delicious fruit, like a high-end baker and caterer who asked us to create a ‘homemade’ dessert.
In this dessert everything comes together: our fruit and our fruitful way of working. We now create a new dessert every season based on different combinations of pastry with jam, fillings or a topping with appealing pieces of fruit. That is what Zeelandia Fruitful offers: the best combination of baking ingredients, including fruit and fruitful solutions.
The sound of crrrssst!
When buying a baguette, ciabatta or hard roll, consumers consider a crispy crust as an essential sign of freshness and quality. If you want to improve the crust you have to define the crustiness. But we wondered: how can you measure crustiness?
The proof of the crust is not in the tasting. The proof of the crust is in the sound. In search of the best crust in the world we developed a unique testing method, the Zeelandia Crustitest. It is an inventive way to measure force and sound; similar to squeezing bread by hand. Accurate and objective. The reproducible results give unprecedented data, helping customers improve the crustiness of their products and improve shelf life. And helping Zeelandia to improve products and processes. All for the ultimate experience of crrrssst!
Smooth operator.
There is more to release agents than just sliding a baked product from a baking tin. Discover the full potential of our release agents named Carlo and Carlex. It is just a matter of Spray & bake!
Together with our client, a mid-sized bakery, we explored all the possibilities with Carlo, an emulsion of water and oil, with more releasing power than plain vegetable oil. In combination with an accurate spraying machine our customer achieved better results. And more. Not only the releasing was better, they also needed less oil, reduced product waste and prevented damage to bread tins. Even the baking results improved.
How a cookie raised the bar.
We like to take customers’ wishes very seriously. But we do not always do what customers would like us to do. For instance, a bakery asked us to come up with a new cookie recipe. We wondered how we could meet expectations including trends and needs as we go along. The remarkable result was not a cookie … we raised the bar a bit.
We combined our business support with consumer insights and trends like health and convenience and developed a grab&go health bar. Adjustable according to customer needs and season involved. For instance by adding pumpkin seeds and dried fruit in autumn.
By presenting a total product, including packaging and marketing, our customer has been offered a unique and distinctive story. The result is not only a bigger margin, but also business growth.