
Our customers use lime because of its sharp acidity, refreshing flavor, and wide functional applications in food and beverages. Lime provides a bright, tangy taste that enhances products like drinks, marinades, sauces, and desserts, often balancing sweetness and adding complexity to flavor profiles. Its high citric acid content also helps act as a natural preservative by lowering pH and slowing microbial growth, which extends shelf life. Additionally, lime is a source of vitamin C, supporting health-related marketing claims. It is commonly processed into juice, concentrate, zest, and essential oil, making it easy to use in large-scale manufacturing while ensuring consistent flavor and product stability.
Supplier and Manufacturer
About Our Limes
Crisp Citrus Punch
NFC Lime Juice: Raw, Vibrant Zest
For premium brands looking to capture an authentic, crisp citrus punch, our bulk NFC lime juice delivers a "freshly squeezed" sensory profile with zero thermal concentration. Expressed from hand-selected Persian and Mexican key limes at peak maturity, the juice is immediately flash-pasteurized to secure microbiological stability while protecting the fragile volatile esters that give lime its signature mouthwatering aroma.
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Standard vs. Key Lime Profiles: We supply standard NFC lime juice for a clean, universally loved tartness, as well as Mexican Key Lime NFC juice for applications requiring a sharper, intensely aromatic, high-acid bite.
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Natural Cloud & Color Integrity: Our single-strength juice retains its natural pectins and micro-pulp, maintaining a stable, characteristic pale-green cloud that consumer brands associate with high-end, premium quality.
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Primary Applications: Premium RTD cocktails (Margaritas, Mojitos), craft ginger beers, key lime pies, gourmet citrus marinades, and high-end salad dressings.
For Maximum cold-storage space
Concentrated Lime Juice: Industrial Acidulation
When shipping weights, cold-storage space, and strict cost-per-liter parameters dominate your procurement goals, our bulk Concentrated Lime Juice is the ideal solution. Standardized by its titratable acidity - typically measured at 400 GPL (Grams Per Liter of Anhydrous Citric Acid) - our concentrate is available in both Cloudy formats for traditional juices and Clarified (depectinized) formats for clear liquids.
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Clarified (Depectinized) Excellence: For clear beverage applications, our concentrate undergoes enzyme treatment and ultra-filtration. This completely removes the pectin and pulp, yielding a water-clear concentrate that delivers an intense acid punch without causing sediment or clouding.
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Exceptional Shipping Economics: Evaporating the natural water content under vacuum removes up to 85% of the juice's volume. This slashes logistical freight costs and carbon footprints, providing a massive volume of re-hydratable juice in a highly compact storage footprint.
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Primary Applications: Clarified is the industry standard for hard seltzers, flavored gins/vodkas, and clear sodas. Cloudy is preferred for high-volume commercial juice mixers, frozen limeades, and industrial sauces.
Cold-Pressed and Traditional Distillation
Lime Oils: Essential Applications
Lime oil is unique in the citrus world because extraction chemistry drastically changes the flavor profile. We offer both cold-pressed and distilled lime oils to suit completely different formulation requirements. Whether your R&D team needs the fresh, raw bite of the peel or the complex, sweet-tart depth achieved through historical distillation, our portfolio delivers exceptional chemical purity.
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Cold-Pressed Persian Lime Oil (Expressed): Mechanically expressed from the peel at ambient temperatures, keeping the oil and juice strictly separate. This preserves the high-aldehyde top notes, resulting in a bright, sharp, true-to-fruit aroma.
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Distilled Mexican/Key Lime Oil: Following traditional South American methods, the entire fruit is crushed into a homogenous puree and heated. The volatile oils evaporate and are captured via steam distillation. This deliberate heat allows the juices and oils to intermix, triggering a unique chemical reaction that creates a rich, sweet, slightly candy-like profile.
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Primary Applications: Cold-pressed oil is preferred for fresh beverage emulsions and clean skincare. Distilled oil is the absolute global benchmark for traditional cola formulations, citrus sodas, confectionery gummies, and hard candies.
Slices, Wedges & Zest
Lime IQF: Structural Flash-Freezing
When your product relies on visual authentication, natural garnishes, or high-potency peel aromatics, our Individually Quick Frozen (IQF) lime formats offer the ideal solution. Using advanced cryogenic flash-freezing, we drop the temperature of processed lime components within seconds. This rapid crystallization preserves the cellular walls of the rind and flesh. When thawed or baked, the fruit maintains its rigid structure, bright yellow color, and volatile oils without weeping or turning into a soft, oxidized pulp.
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IQF Lime Zest (Flavedo Strips & Grates): Pure outer rind entirely free of the bitter white pith. Packed with native essential oils, it provides an intense flavor burst and a visually striking yellow fleck in gourmet formulations.
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Precision Industrial Cuts: Available in standardized Slices, Half-Wheels, and Wedges, providing precise portion control and seamless integration into automated deposition lines.
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Primary Applications: Industrial baking (lemon tarts, cookies, artisanal breads), craft brewing (whole-lemon botanical additions), ready-made meal kit inclusions, and commercial foodservice beverage garnishes.
B2B Frequently Asked Questions
Available Lime 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 lime are sourced from the earth’s prime growing regions where farming expertise, climate and soil composition come together to produce lime 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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