Yeast & Bread-making

Yeast & Bread-making

Lesaffre is today a leader in the global yeast production market. Benefiting from this vast experience, the group makes optimal use of its know-now in the fermentation sector, proposing a range of yeast products which are constantly adapted to meet to the needs of professionals in this industry. The group has achieved a dominant market position and a high level of brand awareness in the baking and yeast for alcohol markets.

Lesaffre is fully committed to bakers, providing them with innovative solutions to facilitate their work. As a result, our bakers are able to offer their clients delicious bread products characterised by their unique aromas and textures. The group also offers a wide range of special ingredients and bread improvers which can be used in mills and bakeries, in addition to mixes and blends adapted to new consumption patterns.

Keen to meet the needs of its clients, Lesaffre provides valuable know how in fields as varied as:

• Health and well-being: by reducing the levels of salt, allergenic substances and preservatives used in bakery products.
• Texture: Lesaffre offers innovative "custom" solutions to ensure that bread retains its freshness for longer, and has a soft, creamy texture.
• Taste: as the undisputed leader in taste creation, Lesaffre offers baking professionals numerous solutions with its range of taste-enhancing products including: dehydrated fermented flour, starters for sourdough, and ready-to-use live liquid sourdough.
• Frozen products: from frozen dough through to the quick-turnaround of products, Lesaffre offers bakers a host of new possibilities.

L’hirondelle, Saf-Instant and Magimix…

For more than 150 years now, Lesaffre has marketed an extensive range of leading products. Enjoying a high level of brand awareness among professionals, these key brands are seen as references in the international marketplace.

For many years, researchers and technicians at the Lesaffre Baking Centers® (international technical bread-making centres) have worked on a daily basis alongside bakers. They develop new techniques, better adapted to their needs, and which guarantee them products combining quality, performance and taste.
With 22 Baking Centers around the world, Lesaffre provides its clients with an extremely useful resource combining proximity and professionalism. In doing so, the group helps the profession to move forward, and encourages the emergence of new baking techniques