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FTNF Fruit Essence

Brothers International is your trusted source for 100% natural, From The Named Fruit (FTNF) water-phase essences for your production needs. From Apple and Orange to Peach, Grape, and Passionfruit; all captured during gentle juice concentration to deliver the highly volatile, fresh-picked top-notes that bring beverages and flavor systems to life.

Brothers International is proud to offer various fruit juices and concentrates as USDA Organic certified.

Fruit Essences can be supplied as organic upon request

RTD Beverage Formulation

Fruit essences are the ideal aromatic solution for crystal-clear beverages, including sparkling waters, hard seltzers, and clear functional drinks. Because they are 100% water-soluble, they deliver vibrant, fresh fruit aromas without causing cloudiness, ring formation, or oil separation in the bottle.

Juice Reconstitution

When reconstituted juice concentrates lose their fresh aroma top-notes due to thermal evaporation, fruit essences are added back to restore the original “just-squeezed” aromatic profile. They allow beverage formulators to maintain batch-to-batch consistency and authentic sensory quality year-round.

Alcoholic Beverages & Craft Spirits

Distillers, craft brewers, and RTD cocktail formulators use fruit essences to impart clean, bright fruit top-notes without adding sugars, calories, or turbidity. Their high purity also makes them ideal for TTB-drawback eligible alcoholic beverage formulations.

Restoring Fresh Top-Notes and

Fruit Essence Aroma

During the standard juice concentration process, thermal evaporation causes delicate, volatile aroma molecules to flash off. Aroma Recovery Units (ARUs) capture these water-vapor compounds before they are lost, condensing them into highly concentrated, pure water-phase essences.

By understanding how fruit essences complement juice concentrates and water bases, R&D teams can restore true “freshly picked” character to their formulations.

  • 100% Water-Soluble Clarity: Unlike peel oils or essential oils, water-phase fruit essences mix seamlessly into water bases. They provide intense aromatic impact while maintaining total clarity and stability in liquid applications.

  • Micro-Dosage Cost Efficiency: Fruit essences are exceptionally potent. Used at fractions of a percent, a tiny injection of high-fold essence drastically elevates the sensory profile of a beverage without significantly impacting cost-per-liter.

  • 100% FTNF Clean-Label Status: Because our essences are extracted strictly from the named fruit during juicing, they carry 100% From The Named Fruit (FTNF) status, allowing for clean, natural ingredient labeling that modern consumers trust.

Available now, blackberry concentrate, blackberry essences, blackberry IQF, blackberry juice, blackberry puree.
Brothers International is your supplier for cranberry NFC juice, cranberry juice concentrate and other cranberry ingredients and products.
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Fit For Purpose Sourcing

Not every application demands the same volatile profile or concentration fold; a high-proof spirit, an ultra-clear sparkling water, and a high-volume juice blend each require specific volatile fractions and solubility traits.

Rather than offering a standard off-the-shelf product, our global sourcing network aligns origin, fruit variety, and essence recovery specifications with your exact product requirements.

Whether you need a crisp, high-aldehyde Apple essence to brighten a juice blend, or a tropical Passionfruit essence to anchor a premium beverage line, we match the origin and extraction parameters to your objective. We deliver fruit essences that fit your exact manufacturing needs.

  • Zero Thermal Degradation: Our essence recovery systems operate under vacuum at low temperatures, preserving delicate esters, aldehydes, and ketones that would otherwise be destroyed by high heat.

  • True-to-Fruit Botanical Mirror: The captured essence is an exact aromatic footprint of the ripe fruit’s natural juice vapor, delivering the authentic aroma consumers expect from premium products.

Uncompromising Purity and Integrity

100% Pure, FTNF Fruit Essence

As international fruit experts, we’ve spent the last 25 years supplying our customers with everything from Fruit Essences to Juice Concentrates and IQF parts. The purity of our aqueous essences makes them essential for flavor houses, beverage compounders, and food manufacturers worldwide.

  • 100% Solvent-Free & Natural: Our recovery process utilizes zero chemical solvents, synthetic additives, or alcohol carriers—just pure, natural water-phase fruit volatiles.

  • Seamless Formulating: Compatible with standard flavor-dosing systems, our essences blend effortlessly into liquid production lines without special emulsifiers.

As a global fruit ingredient supplier, we can supply fruit essence from (but not limited to) the following fruits:

We supply pomegranate NFC juice, pomegranate juice concentrate and pomegranate essence.
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Fruit Essences F.A.Q.

A fruit essence (or aqueous aroma) is a water-soluble volatile condensate recovered from the juice phase during evaporation. A citrus essential oil is an oil-soluble fraction mechanically cold-pressed from the peel/rind of the fruit. Essences mix completely into water-based products without cloudiness, whereas peel oils require emulsifiers or soluble alcohol bases to remain suspended in clear liquids.

FTNF stands for “From The Named Fruit.” It means 100% of the aromatic flavor compounds in the essence were derived exclusively from the specific fruit listed (e.g., 100% Apple Essence comes only from apples). This classification is crucial for clean-label claims and regulatory compliance when declaring “Natural Fruit Flavor” on consumer packaging.

When juice concentrates are reconstituted with water at a bottling plant, the original aroma profile can taste slightly “cooked” or flat. Adding a micro-dose of fruit essence restores the volatile top-notes, making reconstituted 100% juice taste remarkably close to fresh NFC juice.

Because fruit essences contain highly volatile aromatic compounds, they must be stored in airtight, food-grade containers (such as stainless steel drums or barrier-lined containers) in temperature-controlled cold storage (35°F–40°F or chilled). Keeping containers tightly sealed with minimal headspace prevents volatile top-notes from escaping into the air.