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Fermented bread with rich flavors and consistent quality

Sourdough​

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What is Sourdough​?

  • Made through the fermentation of yeast and lactic acid bacteria, sourdough breads have enjoyed a popularity surge in recent years.
  • Lesaffre’s selection of sourdough starters and ingredients is developed to give you great flavours and aromas, along with consistent quality for every bake.

Crafting Consistently Great Sourdough with Perfect Flavours and Aromas

Characteristics

Enjoy high quality finished products with every bake:

Highly customisable products encourage the creation of your own signature breads.
Can be mixed directly into your flour preparation.
Stable products with an extended shelf life.

How Can You Use Sourdough Solutions​?

Get creative with Lesaffre’s range of starters and ingredients.

Use our scientifically developed starters to streamline your sourdough preparation process, with no need to repeatedly refresh a spontaneous starter!

Experiment with our live sourdough products and ingredients to create breads with diverse flavours, visuals and aromatic palettes.

Bake exceptional breads with our inactive sourdough formulations, designed for stability and adaptability across a range of bread making processes.

benefits

Get creative with Lesaffre’s range of starters and ingredients.

Easy-to-Use

All our sourdough ingredients can be added directly into your mixture and conveniently dosed according to your desired characteristics.

Consistency

Experiment with our live sourdough products and ingredients to create breads with diverse flavours, visuals and aromatic palettes.

Versatile

Bake exceptional breads with our inactive sourdough formulations, designed for stability and adaptability across a range of bread making processes.

Sourdough Starters

Sourdough starters allow bakers to prepare sourdough in just one step and within 24 hours, retaining the rich flavours and, distinct crumb and crust in the finished loaf.

Calling on years of knowledge and mastery, we carefully select and stabilise just the right natural sourdough flora to replicate the quality and characteristics of traditional sourdoughs to improve crumb texture and provide those familiar sourdough flavours within 18-24 hours, instead of days.

By adjusting temperatures, hydration, sourdough flour types, and dough maturation times with a sourdough bread starter, bakers can create a wide variety of speciality breads, sandwich breads, brioche, and Viennese baked goods.

Starters

Livendo® Starters LV1

Designed for butter and dairy-based sourdough products with a sour note.

Starters

Livendo® Starters LV2

Best suited for rye sourdough breads. Provides a rich fruity flavour.

Starters

Livendo® Starters LV3

Ideal for sourdough applications with an acetic finish.

Live Sourdough

Ready- to- use in liquid form, which can easily be worked in during kneading, our live sourdoughs remove the extended sourdough preparation phase without losing the distinctive sourdough aroma. Livendo® Live Sourdoughs are produced from the natural fermentation of cereal flours obtained from organic farming.

The desire to maintain the fermentation power of sourdough and conserve its sensory qualities inspired Lesaffre to launch the first- ever, ready-to-use living liquid sourdough with guaranteed biomass. The benefits of this patented process for bakers include:

A live sourdough with potential stability of up to 14 weeks at temperatures less than 10°C.
Greater consistency in the finished loaf.
Prevents spoiling by inhibiting the development of micro-organisms.
Potential for use with a wide range of applications including: baguettes, Viennese pastries, rye bread, traditional sourdough-based French breads, ciabatta, pizza bases, and more.
Live Sourdough

Livendo® Live Sourdough Creme de Levain

Perfect for rye and wheat sourdough products, offering a rich aromatic flavour.

Devitalised Sourdoughs

Devitalised sourdoughs provide solutions to enhance the taste and aroma of bread by expanding customisation and flexibility in usage. Made from different types of fermented flours (wheat, rye, spelt, and certified organic grains) and incorporated directly in the mixing process, you can easily produce the distinctive aromas and flavours of the grain used.

Sourdough Ingredients

Livendo® Sourdough Ingredients (Powder) BD100

Designed for butter and dairy-based sourdough products with a sour note.

Sourdough Ingredients

Livendo® Sourdough Ingredients (Powder) E120

A devitalised spelt sourdough powder.

Sourdough Ingredients

Livendo® Sourdough Ingredients (Powder) F60

A preparation of devitalised wheat sourdough.

Sourdough Ingredients

Livendo® Sourdough Ingredients (Powder) F100

A fermented wheat flour formulation to enhance flavour and appearance.

Sourdough Ingredients

Livendo® Sourdough Ingredients (Powder) F200

A devitalised wheat sourdough preparation.

Sourdough Ingredients

Livendo® Sourdough Ingredients (Powder) FS60

A devitalised sourdough powder with a wheat and rye base.

Sourdough Ingredients

Livendo® Sourdough Ingredients (Powder) S76

A devitalised sourdough formulation with a rye base.

Sourdough Ingredients

Livendo® Sourdough Ingredients (Powder) S400

A fermented wheat flour formulation to enhance flavour and appearance.

Sourdough Ingredients

Livendo® Sourdough Ingredients (Powder) AOM470

A powder preparation with a base of wheat flour and malted barley flour.

Sourdough Ingredients

Livendo® Sourdough Ingredients (Liquid) AF200L

A fermented wheat flour formulation to enhance flavour and appearance.

Sourdough Ingredients

Livendo® Sourdough Ingredients (Liquid) AS75L

A liquid base of rye and malted wheat flour.

Sourdough Ingredients

Livendo® Sourdough Ingredients (Liquid) AS200L

A fermented wheat flour formulation to enhance flavour and appearance.

Sourdough-Based Preparations

Our sourdough-based preparations help extend and vary the diversity of aromatic notes in baked goods. Using our extensive expertise in sensory analysis, we have developed sourdough-based formulations enriched with malt, organic acids, spices, and other ingredients. Suited to a variety of bread-making processes, these fermented flours come in liquid or dehydrated form. They are quick to make, easy to customise and offer a relatively long shelf life.

For more information on sourdough starters, flour, or yeast, contact us.  A Lesaffre expert can help you discover the best sourdough solution for your needs.

Sourdough Based Preparation

Livendo Tradizy® Durum

An all-in-one, very easy to use product for anyone starting with sourdough.

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