Liquid Extract Diastatic & Non Diastatic
Specialist Cereal Extract
 
Liquid malt extracts are produced by the aqueous extraction of sugars from malted barley, and their subsequent concentration into a viscous syrup.

Non-diastatic liquid malt extracts provide a valuable source of fermentable sugars, a traditional malty flavour and natural colour.
By a carefully controlled evaporation process during concentration the naturally occurring enzymes in the original malt are preserved in diastatic malt extracts, enabling the end-user to make use of the enzyme activity in order to convert starches from other sources into sugars.

The range of Muntons liquid malt extracts is extensive and our list of standard products in no way inhibits our capability or willingness to develop new products or vary existing products to suit our customers' demands, provided that our minimum production batch size can be ultimately met. Our extracts are normally in the range of 80%-82% solids.
   

Diastatic Products:

Fifty Malt Extract

Century Malt Extract

Non Diastatic Products:

Light Malt Extract

Amber Malt Extract

Dark Malt Extract

Light Maltense Light Malt Extract

Maltense Dark Malt Extract

 

Our standard packaging for liquid malt extracts is: 

  • 19-kg, 21-kg and 23-kg Poly Box
  • 300-kg Steel Drums
  • 300-kg Plastic Drums
  • 1 tonne Mini-bulk Containers (subject to geographical location)
  • Road Tankers
           

Some Applications

Diastatic
Diastatic malt extracts possess varying degrees of enzyme activity. In bread baking the alpha amylase content can be used to improve the potential for fermentable sugars for yeast activity, thus enhancing gas production during fermentation and final loaf volume. Diastatic malt extracts can be used not only for the production of the traditional sticky malt loaf, but also as an improver in years when the naturally occurring levels of alpha amylase in wheat flour are low.

Higher diastatic extracts are used for the conversion of cereal starches into glucose syrups.

Non Diastatic

In bread baking, non-diastatic malt flour is used to enhance flavour, to provide sugars for yeast activity and product colour.

It is also used in breakfast cereals and biscuits, malted milk drinks and ice cream, sugar confectionery and chocolate confectionery to impart the traditional malty flavour as either an additional tone, or as a complementary flavour enhancer.

General
In many applications, malt extract can be used to replace the usage of sugar in part, which is of particular interest to the manufacturers of reduced sugar products. Muntons malt extracts are naturally produced and on product labelling may be declared as 'malt' or 'malt extract'.

 
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