New & Improved Platinum Yeast:  What Makes It Our Superior Instant Yeast

Platinum Yeast is a game-changer for home bakers. We’re excited to announce we’ve taken this product to a new level, it’s truly the most superior instant yeast product on the market! This unique 2-in-1 product contains our premium instant yeast, plus a dough improver. And now it’s even better than ever, keeping your breads softer, fresher and oh so yummy even longer. Because when you work hard to bake the best, you deserve the best results. Keep reading and watch the video below to learn more about our new & improved Platinum Yeast.

What is a dough improver?

The dough improver in Platinum Yeast is a blend of common ingredients: enzymes and ascorbic acid. More on those in a bit. The dough improver in Platinum strengthens and improves the volume of your dough, and our new formula also gives your breads that fresh-from-the-oven soft and airy texture even longer – bonus! Platinum is the first yeast product to include dough improvers. By using Platinum Yeast, you can feel confident in the strength of your dough and achieving baking success.

A deeper dive into the ingredients:

Enzymes and flour create a strong dough

Enzymes are simply just proteins. These enzymes cut down the components in flour (proteins, lipids, and starch) into smaller units. This allows flour to absorb water differently, interact with other ingredients in the dough easier and provide additional food (glucose, which is sugar) for the yeast to ferment.

Ascorbic Acid to strengthen gluten

Ascorbic acid, also known as Vitamin C, connects and strengthens the gluten network in your dough by interacting with gluten proteins in the flour. The gluten network is the basic structure for yeast-raised breads; making it stronger helps the dough hold the gas (carbon dioxide) produced by the yeast, giving the dough a better rise.

Two of the most common mistakes when making homemade bread are undermixing and over-proofing the dough. The stronger gluten network helps prevent the dough from collapsing during the rise or in the oven. In fact, it will give your baked goods a bigger oven spring – which is the extra rise the dough gets during the first few minutes of baking.

How dough improvers work with flour for a more consistent rise

The main ingredient in bread is flour, which comes from wheat. Like most of our food, wheat is a raw material that comes from the earth. Because of this, there can be variations in wheat performance depending on where it’s grown and the type of soil used, the weather, and the variety of wheat. As you may have seen in your own baking, it is often necessary to adjust the amount of water or liquids used when making bread.

To help make baked goods more consistent, dough improver helps reduce variabilities that may come from flour in your recipe. You can count on Platinum Yeast to deliver that consistency.

How we’ve improved the new Platinum Yeast formula

New and improved Platinum is the same product you know and love for strength, tolerance and great oven-spring. And now it also has the added benefit of extending that right-from-the-oven freshness of your baked goods.

They say “all good things must come to end” which is unfortunately true for baked goods. But we’ve added additional enzymes to Platinum that slow the staling process so that your baked goods stay fresher longer. Bread staling is the process of the two main molecules found in starch: amylose and amylopectin, undergoing a process where they become rigid (recrystallize) on a molecular level over time. Starch is the main component in the wheat kernel that makes up flour. This process happens very quickly after baking, but the effects aren’t seen until after 1-3 days.

It is important to note that these enzymes will not prevent mold growth. But they will help to maintain the softness you’re familiar with when the bread comes directly out of the oven. Enjoying that fresh taste longer means less food waste and more delicious moments.

Give our New and Improved Platinum Yeast a try with your next baking adventure. Find it in a store near you or buy online.