Unlock better texture, lower costs, and cleaner labels with Acti — Puratos’ enzyme-based innovation for cake production.
Acti is a range of enzyme-based solutions designed to improve the performance, quality, and efficiency of your cakes. Developed through Puratos’ expertise in enzyme technology, Acti solutions work naturally within your recipe to enhance key product attributes without adding additives
By leveraging enzymes — naturally occurring processing aids — Acti enables you to meet the growing demand for cleaner labels while delivering consistent, high-quality results across a wide range of applications.
Why Choose Acti?
Acti is designed to tackle the biggest challenges in cake production today — from rising ingredient costs to evolving consumer expectations around health, sustainability, and transparency.
With Acti, you can:
- Improve texture, delivering softness, moistness, lightness, and melt-in-the-mouth indulgence
- Extend freshness and shelf life, maintaining optimal quality from day one to end of shelf life
- Reduce recipe costs, including egg and fat reduction solutions
- Support cleaner labels by removing or reducing additives
- Enhance nutritional profiles, including sugar reduction capabilities
- Improve sustainability, by optimising formulations and reducing waste
All of this is achieved while maintaining the taste, volume, and quality your customers expect.
Acti solutions are highly versatile and can be used across a wide range of cake applications, including muffins, layer cakes, Swiss rolls, brownies, loaf cakes, and more.
They are available as both functional improvers for scratch recipes and concentrated solutions (Easy Acti), offering flexibility for artisan, semi-industrial, and industrial production environments.
Acti is more than an ingredient solution — it is a tool to help you stay competitive in a rapidly evolving market. By combining technical performance with consumer-driven benefits, Acti enables you to:
- Deliver consistent, high-quality products
- Adapt quickly to trends in clean label, health & wellbeing, and sustainability
- Improve profitability through cost optimisation
- Innovate with confidence across your range
A Solution for Every Challenge
The Acti range is built to address specific production needs, allowing you to choose the right solution for your application:
- Acti Fresh – Improves softness and freshness over shelf life, helping extend product quality
- Acti Egg Reduction – Reduces egg usage while maintaining texture and volume, delivering cost and supply stability
- Acti Fat Reduction – Lowers fat content without compromising mouthfeel or indulgence
- Acti Sugar Reduction – Reduces sugar while preserving taste, texture, and consumer appeal
- Acti Clean(er) Label – Replaces additives such as emulsifiers to create shorter, cleaner ingredient lists
Big Changes, without Label Changes
We have developed many of our Acti solutions to be Clean(er) Label thanks to the enzyme technology. No new ingredients to declare and no label change - something both you, and your consumers, will be happy to see.
Transform Your Cakes with Acti
Whether you’re looking to improve texture, extend shelf life, reduce costs, or meet clean label demands, Acti provides the flexibility and performance to support your growth.
Better texture. Smarter formulations. Stronger business results.
