CSM Ingredients offers cost-effective, high-quality, and sustainable egg alternative
Egg ‘n Easy Plus in use in a brioche.
Egg ‘n Easy Plus, a cutting-edge egg reduction solution for cakes, muffins, and brioches, has been introduced by the CSM Ingredients group.
This most recent formulation, which builds on the popularity of the Egg ‘n Easy series, offers even more flexibility and cost-efficiency while maintaining outstanding performance and quality.
With egg prices rising and sourcing becoming increasingly difficult – due in part to avian flu outbreaks and also to growing global demand – the food industry is under pressure to find reliable alternatives that don’t compromise on quality. Over the past years, CSM Ingredients group has invested heavily in R&I to meet this challenge, developing Egg ‘n Easy. This range of products, dedicated to egg reduction, leverages both CSM Ingredients’ know-how in the bakery sector and HiIFood’s expertise in plant-based ingredients.
The most recent addition to the range, Egg ‘n Easy Plus, is a plant-based, fully customisable powder solution.
This innovation allows manufacturers to replace up to 100% of whole eggs in brioche recipes – which typically contain 5% to 15% egg – significantly reducing production costs while preserving optimal dough consistency and workability. Switching from free-range eggs to Egg ‘n Easy Plus can lower egg-related costs by up to 55%.
In addition to brioche applications, the new formulation improves texture, moisture, and mouthfeel in cakes and muffins, enabling up to 50% egg replacement in these applications and maintaining the same great taste.
Egg ‘n Easy Plus contains wheat protein for improved crumb structure, vegetable fibre for enhanced freshness, sorbitol to improve moisture retention, and enzymes for a finer crumb structure, ensuring the baked good maintains a soft mouthfeel and a similar texture and taste to the egg-based version. The solution is also available in a fully clean label version.
Egg ‘n Easy Plus is the most advanced version in the Egg ‘n Easy range, a system of solutions that covers a vast number of applications: sponge, muffin, cake, waffle, pancake, shortcrust, and brioche. More information can be found at: csmingredients.com/industrysolutions/en_en/homepage
