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Bulk Grape Ingredients

Your source for NFC grape juice, concentrated grape juice, grape puree, concentrated grape puree, grape essence and grape IQF.

Our customers use grapes because of their natural sweetness, versatility, and strong consumer appeal across a wide range of products. Grapes are commonly processed into juices, concentrates, raisins (dried grapes), and extracts, making them useful in beverages, snacks, baked goods, and confectionery. Their high natural sugar content allows manufacturers to enhance flavor while reducing the need for added sugars. Grapes are also rich in antioxidants, such as resveratrol, which supports heart health and wellness-related marketing claims. Additionally, their mild, familiar flavor blends easily with other ingredients, and their availability in shelf-stable forms makes them ideal for large-scale production and consistent product formulation.

Grape Ingredients can be supplied as organic upon request

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NFC Grape Juice: Cold-Stabilized Premium Quality

For brands seeking a pristine, "fresh-from-the-vine" sensory profile, our bulk NFC grape juice delivers unparalleled quality. Pressed from premium, hand-selected harvests at peak maturity, the juice is immediately pasteurized to secure microbiological safety. Crucially, our NFC juices undergo strict Cold Stabilization (De-tartration). The juice is chilled to near-freezing temperatures for extended periods, forcing naturally occurring tartaric acid to crystallize and precipitate out. The juice is then filtered, ensuring your final bottled product will never develop unappealing "wine diamonds" (tartrate crystals) on the shelf.

  • Concord NFC (The Bold Standard): Pressed from the iconic North American Concord grape. Known for its deep, opaque purple hue and robust, robustly sweet-tart "foxy" flavor profile. Ideal for premium 100% grape juices, craft sodas, and artisanal fruit spreads.

  • White Grape NFC (Crisp & Clean): Pressed from premium white seedless varietals (like Niagara or Thompson). It offers a delicate, crisp, and refreshing floral profile with a beautiful golden-green hue, perfect for upscale sparkling juices and premium multi-fruit juice blends.

logistical efficiency and extended shelf stability

Concentrated Grape Juice: Industrial Sweetening

When logistical efficiency, extended shelf stability, and high-solubility blending are your primary benchmarks, our bulk Concentrated Grape Juice is the ultimate industrial workhorse. Evaporated under a low-temperature vacuum to a standardized 68° Brix, this high-yield ingredient removes up to 80% of the fruit’s natural water.

  • Clarified White Grape Concentrate (The Neutral Sweetener): Fully depectinized and ultra-filtered, our Clarified White Grape Concentrate is a water-clear syrup that provides high-density natural sugar with an incredibly neutral flavor and color. It is one of the most widely used clean-label sweetening alternatives globally, allowing brands to sweeten clear beverages, gummies, and syrups while claiming "100% Fruit Juice Sweetened" without altering the product's intended flavor.

  • Concord Grape Concentrate: Retains the dense purple anthocyanins and intense flavor of the Concord grape. Widely used for high-volume commercial grape juices, frozen juice concentrates, and confectionery flavoring.

Single-Strength Formulations

Grape Puree : Authentic Jam and Jelly Bases

For formulations demanding the physical body, natural pectin, and lush mouthfeel of whole fruit, our Single-Strength Grape Puree delivers exceptional structural integrity. Produced by crushing whole grapes and passing them through precision mechanical sieves, the tough skins and seeds are entirely removed, leaving only a rich, velvety, intensely flavorful fruit pulp.

  • High Natural Pectin: Grapes are naturally rich in pectin, making this puree the ultimate foundational ingredient for large-scale jam, jelly, and preserve manufacturing.

  • Vibrant Anthocyanin Color: Our low-temperature processing protects the dark purple/red pigments of Concord and red grape varietals, ensuring your final product maintains a rich, appetizing color without synthetic dyes.

  • Primary Applications: Commercial jelly and preserve manufacturing, fruit leathers, premium dairy preps (yogurt swirls), and infant nutrition purees.

Rich Flavor and Thick, Fibrous Texture

Concentrated Grape Puree: Low-Moisture Bakery Bindings

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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • Primary Applications: Custom compounding for flavor houses, clear RTD waters and hard seltzers, premium teas, and upscale personal care fragrances.

Delicate, Highly Prized Aromatic Compounds

Grape Essence: Capturing Methyl Anthranilate

The most delicate, highly prized aromatic compounds of a grape—specifically methyl anthranilate, the molecule responsible for the signature, candy-like Concord grape smell—are highly volatile. During the thermal evaporation of juice concentrate, these top-notes vaporize instantly. Utilizing closed-loop recovery systems, we capture this aromatic steam and flash-distill it into pure, crystal-clear Grape Essence.

  • 150-Fold Volatile Concentration: Available in industry-standard concentration levels, such as 150-fold, meaning one gallon of essence contains the volatile aroma compounds of 150 gallons of single-strength juice.

  • Restoring Authentic Aroma: Used at micro-dosage levels by flavor chemists and beverage compounders to restore the intense, mouth-watering olfactory punch to pasteurized juices, hard seltzers, and confectionery products.

Visual Authenticity and Natural Texture

Grape IQF: Cryogenic Structural Integrity

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.

  • Standardized Industrial Cuts: Available as Whole Berries, Sliced and precision Dices to guarantee seamless integration through volumetric depositors, assuring uniform piece identity in every batch.

  • 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.

  • Primary Applications: Premium ice cream inclusions, commercial bakery toppings (tarts, cakes), retail frozen smoothie kits, breakfast cereal/oatmeal additions, and prepared foodservice desserts.

B2B Frequently Asked Questions

Available Grape Formats

Clarified White Grape Juice Concentrate (typically at 68° Brix) is entirely depectinized, ultra-filtered, and stripped of distinct flavor and color. This yields a heavy, water-clear syrup that provides high-density natural sweetness. It allows brands to replace synthetic sugars or high fructose corn syrup and utilize the highly marketable "Sweetened with 100% Fruit Juice" clean-label claim, without altering the primary flavor profile of their beverage or gummy.

Concord grapes are famous for their bold, robust, sweet-tart profile often described as "foxy." It is the classic, unmistakable "purple grape" flavor used in traditional jellies and sodas. White grape varietals (like Thompson or Niagara) offer a much lighter, crisper, more delicate floral sweetness with a mild tartness, making them ideal for sparkling ciders and elegant juice blends.

No. During our single-strength puree production, the crushed grapes are passed through fine mechanical sieves (0.5mm to 1.0mm). This meticulous screening process entirely removes the tough outer skins and all seeds, resulting in a 100% smooth, uniform, velvet-like fruit pulp that pumps cleanly through industrial depositor nozzles.

Standard purees contain a high amount of water. When baked inside a pastry crust, that water turns to steam and migrates into the dough, causing a soggy product—a process called syneresis or "weeping." By evaporating the puree down to 30°–40° Brix, we remove the excess water, creating a thick, sticky, low-moisture paste that acts as a natural humectant, keeping the pastry crisp and the filling soft.

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 grape are sourced from the earth’s prime growing regions where farming expertise, climate and soil composition come together to produce grape 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.

Industry Glossery

A Reference Guide for Fruit Ingredient Terminology

Check out our glossary for a consolidated reference of commonly used terminology across the global fruit ingredient industry. It provides straightforward definitions and context for the language and concepts referenced throughout the industry.