
Strawberries are small, red fruits that grow on low, spreading plants and belong to the genus Fragaria. They have a unique structure, with tiny seeds (achenes) on the outside rather than inside the fruit. Strawberries are believed to have originated in Europe and the Americas, and modern cultivated varieties are the result of hybridization. They have a soft texture and a juicy interior. Strawberries grow best in temperate climates and are typically harvested in late spring and early summer, although greenhouse cultivation allows for extended availability.
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About Our Strawberry
Intense Strawberry Flavor With a Brilliant Red Hue
Concentrated Strawberry Juice: High-Yield Sweetness
When your formulation requires intense strawberry flavor and a brilliant red hue without the viscosity or seeds of a puree, our bulk Concentrated Strawberry Juice is the premier industrial solution. The juice is extracted from ripe fruit and gently evaporated under vacuum to a standardized 65° Brix. Because it is thoroughly enzymatically depectinized and ultra-filtered, it provides a highly stable, water-clear syrup that will not cloud or drop sediment.
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Anthocyanin Protection: Strawberries are highly susceptible to thermal color degradation. Our low-temperature vacuum evaporation process protects the natural anthocyanins (red pigments), ensuring your concentrate maintains a brilliant, vibrant red hue rather than turning a cooked, oxidized brown.
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Exceptional Logistical Economics: By removing up to 80% of the water content, this 65° Brix concentrate drastically slashes freight costs and minimizes cold-storage warehouse footprints, allowing for highly efficient, high-volume blending.
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Primary Applications: Clear RTD beverages, hard seltzers, fruit gummies and confectionery, dairy syrups, and commercial fruit cordials.
Physical Body, Natural Pectin and Lush Mouthfeel
Strawberry Puree: Custom Textures and Viscosity
For applications demanding the physical body, natural pectin, and lush mouthfeel of whole fruit, our Single-Strength Strawberry Puree delivers uncompromised quality. Produced by crushing sound, ripe strawberries and passing them through precision mechanical sieves, this puree retains the authentic flavor and viscous texture of the fresh fruit.
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Precision Seed Calibration (Seeded vs. Seedless): We understand that visual authenticity matters. Our purees can be processed through varying screen sizes to deliver a completely smooth, seedless format for clean dairy integration, or a seeded format to provide visual proof of real fruit in consumer products.
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Uniform Line Flow: Engineered for seamless integration into automated manufacturing lines, our purees offer a consistent viscosity that flows smoothly through industrial pumps and depositor nozzles without clogging.
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Primary Applications: Fruit preps for premium yogurts and ice creams, infant nutrition and baby food, high-end smoothie bases, and craft jam or preserve manufacturing.
Intense Flavor, Rich Color and Fibrous Texture
Concentrated Strawberry Puree: Low-Moisture Integrity
For advanced food formulators who require the intense flavor, rich color, and thick, fibrous texture of a puree but cannot tolerate high water content, we supply bulk Concentrated Strawberry Puree. Concentrated under vacuum to a standardized 28° to 30° Brix, this high-viscosity ingredient packs maximum fruit solids into a low-moisture format.
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Strict Syneresis (Weeping) Prevention: Strawberries naturally contain high water levels. Adding single-strength puree to baked goods or snack bars causes moisture migration, leading to soggy crusts and shortened shelf life. Puree concentrate provides robust fruit flavor while keeping water content activity tightly regulated.
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Natural Binder and Humectant: The concentrated natural sugars and pectins act as an exceptional moisture-retaining agent, providing a dense, sticky matrix that extends the soft freshness of baked goods without weeping.
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Primary Applications: Industrial bakery pastry fillings (strudels, turnovers, toaster pastries), extruded fruit bars, dense confectionery centers, and heavy dairy swirls.
Fresh-Picked Aromatic Compounds
Strawberry Essence: Capturing Volatile Top-Notes
The most delicate, floral, and "fresh-picked" aromatic compounds of a strawberry are highly water-soluble and instantly vaporize during the thermal evaporation process of making concentrate. Utilizing state-of-the-art closed-loop recovery systems, we capture this aromatic steam and flash-distill it into pure Strawberry Essence.
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High-Concentration Folding: Available in industry-standard concentration levels, typically 100-fold or 150-fold (meaning 1 gallon of essence contains the volatile aroma compounds of 150 gallons of single-strength juice).
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Restoring Authentic Freshness: Strawberry essence is a crystal-clear, highly volatile liquid used at micro-dosage levels. When added back into formulations, it perfectly restores the sweet, floral, and "jammy" top-notes often lost during commercial pasteurization.
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Primary Applications: Custom compounding for flavor houses, clear RTD waters and hard seltzers, premium teas, and upscale personal care fragrances.
Whole, Slices & Dices
Strawberry IQF: Cryogenic Preservation
When your finished product relies on the visual authenticity, natural texture, and satisfying bite of whole fruit inclusions, our Individually Quick Frozen (IQF) strawberry formats deliver pristine structural quality. Harvested at peak ripeness, the berries are washed, precision-cut, and cryogenically flash-frozen within seconds. This rapid temperature drop prevents the formation of large ice crystals that puncture cell walls, ensuring the strawberries do not collapse into a weeping, oxidized mush upon thawing.
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Standardized Industrial Cuts: Available as Whole Berries, Sliced (Halves/Quarters), and precision Dices to guarantee seamless integration through volumetric depositors, assuring uniform piece identity in every batch.
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Excellent Freeze-Thaw Stability: Our cryogenic process ensures the fruit pieces maintain their rigid structure, bright red color, and natural juices, even when subjected to industrial baking or secondary freezing cycles.
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Primary Applications: Premium ice cream inclusions, commercial bakery toppings (tarts, cakes), retail frozen smoothie kits, breakfast cereal/oatmeal additions, and prepared foodservice desserts.
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Available Strawberry Formats
The Brothers International
Quality Promise
Brothers International and its 4 divisions, Brothers Ingredients, Dennick Fruit Source, Hosh International and Food Partners, are trusted global importers of premium ingredients to major food and beverage manufacturers in North America. We deliver consistent quality and supply across every format the industry demands. Our strawberry are sourced from the earth’s prime growing regions where farming expertise, climate and soil composition come together to produce strawberry of exceptional caliber. All of our suppliers undergo a rigorous vetting process to ensure we work with only the highest-quality processors and can fully guarantee traceability, sustainability, and compliance with all international regulations.
Each of our divisions has a specialized operations team to manage shipments and coordinate with customers and suppliers. They work closely with our in-house customs team to ensure efficient clearance, and collaborate with the USDA and FDA to maintain full regulatory compliance. This ensures your ingredients move seamlessly through every stage of import, arriving on time and ready for production with complete confidence. With decades of sourcing expertise and a strong commitment to customer success, you can count on Brothers International to deliver the premium ingredients your products require.
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