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Discover the unique fermentation-based ingredient for taste modulation provided by Biospringer by Lesaffre.​

Mask unwanted flavor notes in food and beverages

Stop settling for the middle ground. With Springer® Mask 101, you don’t have to compromise between taste and health. Springer® Mask 101 is a natural solution, vegan suitable, and produced by fermentation, that neutralizes the off-notes.

  • To mask liquorice, metallic off-notes, bitter taste and to cut aftertaste brought by sweeteners such as stevia and acesulfame K.
  • To mask bitter taste, beany, earthy, cardboard off-notes brought by vegetal proteins.

Use a natural masking ingredient in food formulation​

Food manufacturers need to answer consumers evolving expectations: develop healthy and indulgent products. But solutions to avoid unwanted taste are not perfect and oftentimes, their compositions are not sufficiently transparent

+15%

of reduced sugar and sugar-free new products launched between 2020 and 2022

 

+66%

of new products launched with plant-based claims between 2020 and 2022

The food industry is very active in new product launches in plant-based and reduced sugar segments for food and beverages. Their main challenge remain to provide flavorful products and reduce unwanted tastes : metallic off-notes and bitter taste brought by sweeteners (ice-tea with stevia for instance) and beany/earthy notes and bitter taste for plant-proteins (vegan meat for example).

Bitterness, a highly complex taste

5 tastes, 5 different mechanisms

 

The numbers of receptors makes it difficult to neutralize bitterness.

Other basic tastes -salty, sour, sweet and umami – are only linked to one receptor while 25 sensory receptors (TAS2R bitter taste receptors) are responsible for reading bitterness.

Bitterness is a highly complex taste to mask

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consumersBiospringer by Lesaffre is supporting food producers meeting consumers expectations​

47%
OF CONSUMERS CONSIDER “FLAVOR” AS THE TOP FACTOR OF IMPORTANCE WHEN BUYING MEAT SUBSTITUTES PRODUCTS

source : Innova Market Insight – 2023

 

26%
OF CONSUMERS SAY THAT LOW/NO/REDUCED SUGAR IS THE TOP FACTOR OF INFLUENCE WHEN THEY BUY CARBONATES DRINKS

source : Innova Market Insight – 2023

34%
OF CONSUMERS SAY THEY INCREASED THEIR CONSUMPTION OF MEAT SUBSTITUTES OVER THE PAST YEAR

source : Innova Market Insight – 2023

Springer® Mask 101, a powerful bitter masker, it’s a scientific fact!

In 2022, Biospringer’s R&D department conducted a scientific study with the Center for Taste and Feeding Behavior (INRAe – CSGA, France) using a unique methodology and advanced technology: it evaluated the interaction of TAS2R bitter taste receptor ans Springer Mask 101. 

Study proved that Springer® Mask 101 is a powerful and large bitter masker.

Springer Mask 101, a powerful bitter masker

A natural yeast ingredient to support the development of​

LESS SUGARSupports the development of reduced and no-sugar foods

It neutralizes the off-notes brought by sweeteners and natural sweeteners, such as:

  • Bitterness
  • Metallic off-notes
  • Unwanted aftertaste

Enables the development of flavorful plant-based foods

Neutralizes the off-notes brought by vegetal proteins, such as :

  • Beany notes
  • Earthy notes
  • Bitterness

mask 101  Springer® Mask 101 in food and beverage

Plant-based alternatives​

Strongly driven by health and environmental​ concerns, consumers crave for plant-based​ alternatives, such as dairy, meat and fish​ analogues. Inspired by this demand, food​ manufacturers search for solutions allowing​ them to create great-tasting alternatives with​ plant proteins such as soy and pea proteins.​

Low-sugar and sugar free beverages with sweeteners​

Consumers are looking for reduced​ or sugar-free beverages: the beverage​ industry is challenged to offer delicious​ drinks while using sweeteners to​ reduce the sugar content.

soy milk mask 101

Soy milk

Masks the soymilk off-notes such as astringency,

beany and also bitterness​

soy milk
iced tea mask 101

Iced tea with stevia

Masks the sweeteners off-notes such as astringency,

beany and also bitterness.​

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What our experts say

  • "Springer® Mask 101 has proven efficacy in masking off notes associated with ingredients used in nutrition based foods and beverages. In a sugar-free beverage with stevia, it minimizes the off-notes and lingering bitterness, making it a more consumer accepted beverage. In a vitamin fortified nutritional beverage, it minimizes the bitterness, metallic, cardboardy off-notes, and rounds out the flavor profile to make a more palatable product that delivers the nutrition that consumers want."

    Heidi GEISENHOFF - Culinary Center Manager in North America

  • "The particularity of Springer® Mask 101 is that it does not add an aromatic note or taste like "classic" yeast extracts do, but it blocks the perception of off-notes, metallic or bitter, to reveal the original profile of the product. Thus, it makes it possible to balance the organoleptic profile of a product by "erasing" its undesirable notes. We can compare this work with that of sound engineers, who seek to erase the noise of old soundtracks, in order to highlight the main voice or melody."

    Marie BENSMAIL - Innovation project Manager

Looking for advice in formulating with Springer® Mask 101 ? Discover our Culinary Center services

A global network of Culinary Centers

Customers can benefit from our global network of five Culinary Center labs, where our food technologists provide them with tailored advice and support on how to use our yeast products to improve the taste of food & beverage formulations. They help customers locally to foster innovation in creating savoring applications with natural yeast ingredients.

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