Functional / Heat Treated Flours

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UNIPEX DAIRY PRODUCTS CO. LTD. (DRY GRAIN BRANCH)
FLOUR & SPECIALTY FLOUR
PO Box 24275, Sharjah, UAE
Tel. : +97165286800 (B), +97165028276 Mobile: +971 502146842, Fax: +97165282868 E-mail: rthakur@iffco.com

Our Offerings

A- Hygiene and Food Safety

To reduce food safety risks and food recalls in due to the possible presence of microbial pathogens like E. coli., Salmonella, Enterobacteriaceae; PRISTINE brings a range of Hygienic and microbially safe flours that can be used for various applications:

Bulking agent for snacks and meat seasonings
Frozen cookie, pastry, and biscuit & cookie dough; frozen pizzas
Bakery mixes: cake, brownie and ready to use mixes
Quick preparation of gravies and sauces
In store batter mix (adhesive & tempura) for meat and fish coatings

B- Clean Label

New trend of clean and simple labels for processed food is on the rise when it comes to Consumer preference. It means “NO” to artificial ingredients and additives with
E-numbers.

PRISTINE range of functional flours is useful to replace food additives such as Hydrocolloids, modified starches, while still being declared as Wheat Flour. Possible applications for PRISTINE Clean Label flour:

Bakery products: Cakes, Muffins, Swiss rolls
Instant Soups, Gravies, Noodles

C- Cost optimization

PRISTINE range of pregel wheat flour presents opportunity to replace expensive ingredients such as potato granules and potato flakes in sheeted and pellet snacks. In meat coating system, better yield and stability can be achieved because of high Water Adsorption. Cost optimization opportunities

Extruded and sheeted Snacks Pellets
Coating mix (adhesive and tempura batter), Predust

D- Nutritional Ingredients

The demand for nutritional ingredients in processed foods is growing for proteins and for natural dietary fibers from plant origin. PRISTGERM and PRISTBRAN are valuable ingredients from wheat as vegan protein and dietary fiber respectively. A thermal treatment and gentle grinding adds higher shelf life, nutty and baked aroma for fortification in different food matrix.

Applications are:

Granola bars, breakfast cereals
Heath food drinks (HFD)
Biscuits and cookies
Wafers, waffles, pancake

Introduction

IFFCO is an innovative and integrated multi food products group based in United Arab Emirates. The Group, set up in 1975, has a significant presence in Impulse foods, Agri-business, Oils and Fats, Packaging, Chemicals and Sales & Distribution. The Group has built a strong portfolio of brands with leading market shares in the domestic and regional markets. The brands’ single-minded focus is to offer great value to consumers.

IFFCO has invested in new technology to offer customized specialty ingredients named Heat Treated Ingredients such as dry flour, functional and hygiene flours, heat treated cake flour an alternative to bleached or chlorinated flour, nutritional ingredients: Toasted wheat germ and toasted wheat bran and roasted semolina.

Process

The unique process of Heat Treatment direct and/or indirect to wheat derivatives (Flour, wheat germ, wheat bran and semolina) allows to make ingredients more functional, in terms of Water Adsorption, Solubility, Hagberg number, Particle size, Shelf-life without additives chemicals/enzymes, i.e.
Clean Label ingredient. The process exploits the heat energy to modify wheat components mainly starch and protein at micro-level; in other words MAgiC of Heat (MACH Process) blossoms the wheat derivatives into value added ingredients with higher degree of food safety. MACH Process is fully integrated with sophisticated grinding through Air-Classifier in controlled temperature and closed loop environment to keep the natural goodness of cereals.

Quality Assurance

Food Safety System Certification (FSSC) 22000
HACCP System Certification
OHSAS 18001:2007 System Certification
Halal Certified Products
Committed responsible supplier having Sedex membership in compliance with 4-Piller SMETA guidelines