07 May BEMA Member Company Spotlight – EDME Food Ingredients Ltd

EDME Food Ingredients Ltd – Aymeric De Foucher
EDME registered for 2024 as their first year heading to IBIE in 2025.

Aymeric De Foucher is the International Sales Manager for EDME Food Ingredients Ltd.

Wes Luczak, Membership Manager for BEMA, had an opportunity to ask Aymeric a few questions about himself and the organization.

Q: Tell us about the products and services your company offers:

A: Since 1884, We create natural, nutritious flours, flakes, kibbles, mixes, sprouted grains and malt extracts for the bakery and wider food industries. The raw materials we use to produce these wholesome ingredients include whole cereal grains; malted wholegrains; seeds and pulses.

Wholegrain is our specialty. Minimal processing is used to convert raw grain into palatable ingredients. Every part of the grain, including the bran layer, is present during milling, flaking, kibbling or malting. This means the resulting ingredients contain all the good things the grains have to offer – and are all set to add nutritional, health and taste benefits to your finished food product.

The benefits of wholegrain in the diet are now widely accepted by health professionals. Evidence indicates that it lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer and type 2 diabetes. That’s as well as helping to maintain a healthy body mass index (BMI).

Q: What is something new or innovative your company has done recently?

A: Over the year, EDME has developed a large range of malted ingredients and concentrates to enhance, flavor, color, texture and functionality within breads and confectionery industry. Thanks to our strong expertise, we have been able to create malts combination to offer unique dough conditioners used as clean label solutions.

Looking at current cocoa market, EDME is now offering an exciting range which can help reducing up to 50% cocoa powders without comprising the organoleptic properties into cookies, brownies, muffins and biscuits, among others.

Q: Why is your company a BEMA member?

A: EDME ambition is to offer its unique range towards the bakery industry through North America. Being part of BEMA is an important milestone to increase our network and create win-win cooperation by offering nutritious healthy cereals ingredients in line with final consumers expectations. Being BEMA member will help to win reactivity by being close to the decision makers and be able to adapt together, to a fast changing market and more exigent consumers.

Q: Which member benefit do you find especially valuable?

A: BEMA has been an important key to access to major bakery players contacts in North America through events like Nexus and IBA in Europe. The rich and detailed intel collected from the market help us to understand the various categories and their developments development within USA. This background information is a strong support to keep innovate in according to the market direction which have become very sensitive to external factors (Pandemic, geopolitical instability, weather changing,etc.. ) over the last decade.

Q: Anything you want the baking industry to know about your company?

A: With more than 140 years experience in the market, EDME ingredients has been recognized from Paris to Auckland!
The rising concern for healthy diet considering wholegrain and its sources of fiber without compromising the taste and the consumer experience for more artisan style products are the success factors EDME want to bring into the USA market. From a bakery perspective and thanks to EDME’s multi-cultural team, we have worked through a numbers of region and local specialties from which the expertise could fit perfectly among the US bakery market. The diversity of usage of the malted ingredients are incredible and always fascinating.

About EDME Food Ingredients Ltd:

We create natural, nutritious flours, flakes, kibbles, mixes, sprouted grains and malt extracts for the bakery and wider food industries. The raw materials we use to produce these wholesome ingredients include whole cereal grains; malted wholegrains; seeds and pulses. We’re champions in the development and re-introduction of ancient grains.

Visit https://www.edme.com/ for more information!