Supplier and Distributor

IQF Fruit Ingredients

Brothers International is your trusted source for premium Individually Quick Frozen (IQF) fruit for your manufacturing needs. From high-demand staples like Strawberries, Blueberries, and Mango to Peaches, Pineapples, and Exotic Berries; all rapidly flash-frozen at peak ripeness to preserve natural piece identity, cell structure, vibrant color, and fresh-picked flavor.

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

IQF Fruit can be supplied as organic upon request

Bakery, Pastry & Confectionery

IQF fruit holds its shape and structural integrity during high-shear mixing and baking. It is the gold standard for fruit pies, pastries, muffins, artisan breads, fruit fillings, and tart toppings where visual piece identity and minimal batter bleed are essential.

Dairy, Yogurt & Frozen Desserts

IQF fruit pieces add vibrant visual appeal, natural texture, and real-fruit bite to dairy products. They are widely used in fruit-on-the-bottom yogurts, ice cream inclusions, sorbets, gelato, and freeze-dried cereal fruit toppings.

Smoothies & Prepared Foods

Essential for commercial smoothie kits, ready-to-eat meal preparations, salsas, chutneys, and foodservice bulk operations. IQF fruit provides exact portion control, easy automated dispensing, and consistent plate presentation.

Cellular Integrity, Texture, and Visual Appeal

IQF Fruit for Production

When utilizing whole or cut fruit in commercial food production, conventional block freezing often damages fruit tissue, resulting in soft, mushy textures and excessive juice loss upon thawing. Individually Quick Frozen (IQF) technology flash-freezes each individual piece of fruit in seconds, preventing large ice crystals from forming and rupturing the fruit’s cell walls.

By understanding how IQF processing protects cellular integrity, R&D and operations teams can maintain superior product texture and visual appeal without processing downtime.

  • Free-Flowing Convenience & Portion Control: Because each fruit piece is frozen individually, IQF fruit does not clump into a solid block. This allows for effortless automated weighing, precise recipe portioning, and continuous feeding into production lines without manual thawing or chopping.

  • Minimal Drip Loss & Color Bleed: By preserving natural cell walls, IQF fruit significantly reduces fluid loss (drip loss) and prevents unwanted color migration into bakery batters, white dairy bases, or doughs during processing.

  • Peak-Ripeness Consistency Year-Round: IQF fruit is harvested and flash-frozen within hours at peak maturity, locking in optimal Brix levels, natural acidity, and vibrant color regardless of seasonal agricultural gaps.

Brothers International has a global network of growers and suppliers that can source blueberry NFC juice, blueberry juice concentrate and more.
Brothers International is your dedicated supplier for raspberry juice concentrate, raspberry puree, raspberry essence, IQF and more.
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Fit For Purpose Sourcing

Not every manufacturing line can handle the same cut size or moisture parameter; a high-speed pie line, an artisan muffin batter, and a commercial smoothie blender each demand specific piece dimensions, firm textures, and melt-rate characteristics.

Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all solution, our global sourcing network carefully aligns fruit cultivar, cut specification, and freezing protocols with your functional requirements.

Whether you need 10x10mm Chilean diced peaches for a bakery prep, or calibrated whole Polish wild blueberries for a muffin mix, we match the origin and cut specification to your objective. We deliver IQF fruit that fits your exact manufacturing parameters.

  • Custom Cuts & Precision Grading: We offer a vast array of cut options—including whole, halved, sliced, diced (e.g., 3/8″, 1/2″), chunks, tidbits, and crumbs—graded to strict size tolerances to prevent machine clogging.

  • Unbroken Cold Chain Security: Maintained at strict sub-zero temperatures from post-harvest freezing through global shipping and warehousing, ensuring zero freezer burn or ice build-up in bulk containers.

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 IQF Fruit to Fruit Purees and Juice Concentrates. The quality and reliability of our frozen fruit make them essential for high-volume food and beverage manufacturing.

  • 100% Clean Label: Our standard IQF fruits contain zero added sugars, artificial colors, syrups, or chemical preservatives—just 100% natural, unadulterated fruit.

  • Organic & Conventional Options: We supply both conventional and certified organic IQF fruit to support various market positioning goals and clean-label declarations.

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

Apple Juice Concentrate, Apple Puree and More
Optimize Production

IQF Fruit Ingredient F.A.Q.

IQF stands for “Individually Quick Frozen.” In this process, individual fruit pieces are exposed to extremely low temperatures while being suspended on a blast freezer conveyor. This rapid freezing process forms micro-ice crystals rather than large macro-crystals, preserving cell walls, firmness, and natural juices. Block freezing, by contrast, freezes large masses together slowly, causing cell damage, mushy texture, and clumping.

To minimize color bleed and moisture loss, IQF fruit should generally be incorporated into batters, doughs, or ice cream bases while still completely frozen, near the very end of the mixing cycle. This prevents the fruit from thawing prematurely and releasing juices during mechanical agitation

Our IQF fruit is packed in food-grade, poly-lined bulk containers designed to preserve quality and prevent freezer burn. Common packaging formats include 20–30 lb cartons, 40 lb cases, or large bulk totes (1,000+ lbs) for industrial processors. All shipments are maintained in an unbroken frozen cold chain at 0°F (-18°C) or colder.

We manage supply chain complexities so your quality assurance teams don’t have to. Every batch of IQF fruit distributed across our specialized divisions is fully traceable back to the farm/processor and arrives with a comprehensive documentation packet, including:

  • Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) / SQF certification

  • FDA and USDA regulatory compliance papers

  • Pesticide Residue Analysis & Certificate of Analysis (COA)

  • Kosher and Halal certifications

  • Non-GMO Project Verification & NOP Organic Certification (available upon request)

Format selection depends on your equipment’s shear tolerance and thaw requirements:

  • IQF Whole Strawberries: Best for bulk preserves, pie fillings, and retail frozen fruit bags.

  • IQF Sliced Strawberries: Ideal for tart toppings, layered parfaits, and foodservice applications requiring fast thaw times.

  • IQF Diced Strawberries (e.g., 3/8″ or 1/2″): Recommended for automated bakery batters, yogurt fruit preps, and cereal bars where uniform fruit distribution and precise volumetric dosing are essential.

Canned fruit contains high levels of free syrup/water that ruin dough hydration ratios, while fresh fruit has a short shelf life and unpredictable seasonal firmness. IQF fruit provides consistent piece size, fixed Brix levels year-round, and can be added directly into mixers while still frozen, preventing fruit degradation and maintaining strict moisture control in baked goods.