Butter Buds offers new solutions for baked goods

Racine, Wisc.-based dairy and non-dairy concentrates leader Butter Buds has announced new flavor and texture solutions private label brands can use for baked goods. The new solutions are made from real butter, cheese and other fats, adding both flavor and functional characteristics to bakery products.

“Butter Buds label-friendly butter and cheese flavors have been around for more than 40 years,” said Michael Ivey, national sales director at Butter Buds. “Because our ingredients are made from real butter, cheese and other fats, it allows the ingredient declaration to read ‘natural flavor'. Our flavor solutions add richness and texture to bakery products, helping our customers meet the ever-increasing demand for cleaner labels. Having our hard-working ingredients in the matrix often means manufacturers can reduce usage of other commodity ingredients such as butter resulting in a bakery product that not only has a cleaner, simpler label but also provides a rich, satisfying taste and texture.”

Butter Buds offers a wide range of new flavor solutions that are ideally suited to a variety of clean label bakery applications. Flavor solutions for clean label bakery products include:

• Butter Buds 32X – A concentrated flavor providing rich butter flavor enhancement
• Cheese Buds – Cheese Flavor Enhancers available in various combinations depending on desired flavor profile
• Butter Buds CL – a non-maltodextrin butter enhancer
• Dried Cream Extract/Cream – helps mask off-notes, improves texture and bite, also increases richness and mouth-feel
• Cocoa Butter Buds – increases richness and improves mouth-feel

“Many manufacturers are also working to expand offerings to include lifestyle options such as keto-friendly alternatives,” said Zachary Fuchs, international business development manager at Butter Buds. “The rise in these alternative products often leads bakers to seek solutions to improve the mouthfeel of low-fat, healthier items such as cheese breads, rolls and other specialty breads. Our flavor solutions help add richness and create a fatty mouth-feel while masking off notes to ensure your next keto-friendly bakery products taste as great as their full fat counterparts.”