{"id":1643,"date":"2019-10-17T14:39:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T18:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maltproducts.com\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2020-12-30T17:21:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T17:21:33","slug":"secret-ingredient-you-may-not-know-malt-products-extract-but-if-youre-on-vegan-burger-bandwagon-youve-eaten-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maltproducts.com\/maltproducts\/2019\/10\/17\/secret-ingredient-you-may-not-know-malt-products-extract-but-if-youre-on-vegan-burger-bandwagon-youve-eaten-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret ingredient: You may not know Malt Products\u2019 extract, but if you\u2019re on vegan burger bandwagon, you\u2019ve eaten it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By\u00a0Brett Johnson<\/strong> roi-nj.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plant-based burgers \u2026 meatless patties \u2026 beef substitutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amy Targan, president of Malt Products Corp., admits herself she doesn\u2019t know what they\u2019re usually referred to as.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But she knows better than anyone what\u2019s in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Products such as the Beyond Burger and the Impossible Burger have hit mainstream appeal, and many big food businesses are hastening to introduce their own version of these vegan sandwich patties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, whatever they\u2019re called, almost all of them use malted barley extract, which Malt Products manufactures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor fake beef, it\u2019s often an ingredient because there\u2019s a browning effect it helps to provide,\u201d Targan said. \u201cOur product is used also to mask any of the off flavors from the pea or soy protein, aside from it making it look more like a burger by giving it a richer color as it cooks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saddle Brook-based Malt Products is one of the many New Jersey companies in the food and beverage manufacturing space, which occupies a share of the state\u2019s manufacturing sector that\u2019s second only to pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid all that competition, the company is proving there\u2019s no substitute for a successful niche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even with a product that few people have heard of, the company is now at the forefront of the so-called \u201cclean labels\u201d movement in the food and beverage sector with its extracts and other natural sweeteners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere has been a big move not to use high fructose corn syrup and not to use GMOs, so we have substitutes,\u201d Targan said. \u201cWhen companies are working to develop a new product in which they want to take out corn syrup, they can use our product.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company\u2019s namesake malted barley product is made through a germination process that turns the starches in grains into a sweetener, similarly to how beer is made, but without the fermentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been doing that since the business was started in (1957) by my father, who still comes to work every day at 92,\u201d Targan said. \u201cOriginally, he sold the product to all the local bagel shops, Italian bakers and other small stores.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, the company sells its ingredients globally. There\u2019s a surge of demand for it in a wide range of food and beverage products \u2014 everything from organic ice cream to the now-popular fermented drink kombucha. One of its fastest-growing segments is an extract that\u2019s being used in oat milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the company started to scale up its production, it outgrew its original New Jersey manufacturing facility. The company kept its main hub in Saddle Brook, but Targan said much of its production has been moved from Maywood to Dayton, Ohio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBesides it becoming difficult to expand in Maywood as the area become more residential, we were also moving to be closer to the grain in Ohio,\u201d Targan said. \u201cWith development taking away farmland, grain stopped being on the East Coast and moved farther west.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The manufacturer still supplies a number of New Jersey food and beverage companies with its ingredients, and Targan said most the company\u2019s executives remain in the Garden State. The manufacturer has about 200 employees total, with around 30 high-ranked staff in New Jersey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if the company manufactures ingredients that don\u2019t always have name recognition, their uses are broad enough that they have some sizable competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut, I think what sets us apart is that we\u2019re very flexible,\u201d Targan said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t take us long to notice a trend and move toward it. I think that versatility means we\u2019ll always do well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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