Limagrain Ingredients’ Innosense White Masa

The newest ingredient launched by Limagrain Ingredients is Innosense White Masa, used to produce soft tortilla, wraps and salty snacks like tortilla chips or tacos from a white maize.

Masa flours are precooked maize flours traditionally produced by a process called nixtamalization, requiring high amounts of water and alkaline conditions that generate a high amount of waste. More than that, in the drying step, a high amount of energy is required to evaporate large amounts of water used for cooking.

Limagrain, however, has developed a process that uses much less water, does not generate polluted water and requires less energy for drying (less water to evaporate compared to a traditional process).

This process is applied to all its masa flours in the range, and, thanks to European sourcing and the company’s eco-friendly process, its new white masa is a functional ingredient with better environmental impact.

Additionally, Limagrain Ingredients has the option to adapt the concept depending on a customer’s applications: either for a use in tortilla chips as snacks; as a soft tortilla; or a gluten-free alternative to wraps currently based on wheat. With its light colour and Tex-Mex taste, it’s way easier to integrate inclusions to the product: pulses, seeds, legumes ... everything is possible and will bring a touch of originality and more consumer attention.

Available from Limagrain Ingredients online.