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Purpose-Sourced Fruit Juice Concentrate

Brothers International is your trusted source for premium fruit juice concentrates for your production needs. From everyday staples like Apple and Orange to exotic Tropicals and Berries, all expertly processed to remove water content, providing a highly efficient, cost-effective, and shelf-stable solution without compromising on foundational flavor.

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

Fruit Juice Concentrates can be supplied as organic upon request

Commercial Beverage Formulation

Our Concentrates are the backbone of the commercial beverage industry. They are utilized by leading manufacturers around the world to create high-volume fruit juices, nectars, soft drinks, flavored waters, and alcoholic beverages that require a consistent, scalable fruit base.

Baking & Confectionery

Juice concentrates provide natural sweetness, color, and fruit flavor to a wide variety of baked goods, fruit snacks, gummies, and confectioneries. They act as an excellent natural alternative to refined sugars and artificial syrups.

Dairy & Frozen Desserts

Fruit concentrates are heavily utilized in the dairy industry, providing the foundational fruit profiles for yogurts, ice creams, sorbets, and fruit-on-the-bottom applications where intense flavor and controlled water content are crucial.

Juice Concentrates Optimize Production

Efficiency and Scalability

When developing commercial food and beverage products, managing supply chain logistics, storage space, and ingredient costs are top-of-mind for manufacturers. Fruit concentrates offer an incredibly efficient solution for development, providing the essential building blocks of fruit flavor in a highly condensed format.

By understanding the distinct logistical and formulation benefits of concentrated juices, R&D and procurement teams can unlock superior production efficiency and achieve consistent, scalable flavor profiles.

  • Logistical Efficiency: By removing the natural water content from the fruit juice, concentrates drastically reduce shipping weights and storage space requirements. This makes them the most cost-effective way to transport and store large volumes of fruit ingredients.

  • Extended Shelf Life & Stability: The evaporation process naturally increases the brix (sugar content) and lowers the water activity of the ingredient. This makes juice concentrates significantly more shelf-stable than single-strength juices, reducing spoilage risks during long-term storage and large-scale manufacturing.

  • The Foundational Base: The most successful commercial formulations use concentrates to establish the foundational base, sweetness, and acidity of a product. While they may lack some volatile top-notes (which can be easily restored using our Citrus Oils or Essences), they provide the robust, reliable fruit profile necessary for high-volume production.

Brothers International is your strawberry juice concentrate supplier, in addition strawberry puree and puree concentrate.
Decades of Experience in

Fit For Purpose Sourcing

Not every application requires the exact same brix level, acidity, or clarity; a clear, sparkling fruit beverage, a thick yogurt base, and a gummy candy each demand distinct technical tolerances and cost-in-use parameters.

Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all solution, our global sourcing network carefully aligns the origin and processing method with your product’s specific functional requirements.

Whether you need a highly clarified apple juice concentrate from South America for a crystal-clear beverage, or a robust, cloudy orange concentrate for a breakfast juice application, we match the origin to the objective. We deliver juice concentrates that precisely match your production needs.

  • Customized Brix and Acidity: We source concentrates across a wide spectrum of brix levels and titratable acidity, allowing formulators to dial in the exact sweetness and tartness required for their specific recipe.

  • Clarified vs. Cloudy Options: Depending on your application, we offer both clarified concentrates (ideal for clear beverages and gummies) and cloudy concentrates (which retain some natural pulp and pectin for a more robust mouthfeel in nectars and smoothies).

Reliable, High-Quality Ingredients

Fruit Juice Concentrate Supplier

As international fruit experts, we’ve spent the last 25 years supplying our customers with everything from fruit juice concentrates to NFC fruit juice. The reliability and consistency of our concentrates make them essential for the global food and beverage industries.

  • Consistent Quality: We provide juice concentrates that deliver reliable, consistent flavor profiles batch after batch, ensuring your final consumer product tastes the same every time.

  • Versatile and Scalable: Our concentrates are designed to be easily reconstituted with water or seamlessly blended into complex formulations, making them the ultimate scalable ingredient for high-volume production.

Global Sourcing & Supply Chain Resiliency:
Securing a dependable, year-round supply of single-strength fruit and vegetable purees requires an agile, multi-continental agricultural footprint. Because purees retain the complete natural moisture, pulp, and delicate cellular matrix of whole produce, processing plants must be situated in close proximity to premier growing regions so sound, ripe crops can be washed, de-stoned, and pulped within hours of harvest. Brothers International coordinates an audited sourcing network across the world’s most productive agricultural valleys. By synchronizing counter-seasonal harvests between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, we insulate manufacturing partners against localized crop freezes, severe droughts, monsoons, and regional harvest deficits.

Managing perishable whole-pulp purees across international borders demands uncompromising logistics management. Purees are inherently bulkier than clarified concentrates, requiring rigorous temperature monitoring and packaging integrity from the processing facility to your plant dock. Brothers International manages cold-chain distribution through temperature-monitored refrigerated containers. Through structured multi-quarter forward contracting and aggregate volume purchasing across our specialized ingredient divisions, we negotiate competitive freight tariffs, lock in predictable pricing, and shield industrial buyers from volatile spot-market commodity spikes and ocean transport disruptions.

Quality Assurance & Technical Compliance:
Every production lot of juice concentrate distributed by Brothers International undergoes rigorous physical and chemical standardization to ensure batch-to-batch predictability on automated production lines. Our technical laboratories monitor critical analytical parameters, beginning with temperature- and acid-corrected refractometric Brix to verify exact soluble solids concentration. We evaluate titratable acidity, pH, and the Brix-to-Acid Ratio (BAR) to ensure consistent flavor release and tartness profiles in finished formulations. Furthermore, we monitor thermal impact markers such as Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and spectrophotometric color absorbance to verify that the concentrate was processed under gentle, low-temperature vacuum evaporation without caramelization, scorched off-notes, or Maillard browning.

Colloidal stability and optical clarity are strictly validated to prevent post-packaging defects in commercial consumer goods. For clarified concentrates, production lots undergo alcohol precipitation testing to confirm complete enzymatic de-pectinization, alongside iodine testing to ensure total starch conversion; this ensures an ultra-filtered liquid that will not develop secondary haze, cloud sedimentation, or foul ultra-filtration membranes in clear hard seltzers and clear RTD beverages. For cloudy concentrates, centrifugal pulp levels and nephelometric turbidity units (NTU) are tightly calibrated to provide stable, uniform opacity that will not separate into distinct serum phases over commercial shelf life.

Food safety, global regulatory compliance, and clean-label traceability are central to our supply chain governance. All processing facilities within our global supplier network operate under Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) benchmarks, holding current certifications under SQF, BRCGS, or FSSC 22000.  Every delivery arrives with a full technical documentation packet, including lot-specific Certificates of Analysis (COA), multi-residue pesticide screening, heavy metal testing via Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) complying with FDA “Closer to Zero” guidelines, Kosher and Halal certifications, Non-GMO Project Verification, and USDA National Organic Program (NOP) transaction paperwork.

Premium Juice Concentrate Used to Optimize Production

Fruit Juice Concentrate F.A.Q.

Commercial Beverage Formulation & RTD Bottling:
Juice concentrates form the foundational base for commercial 100% reconstituted juices, multi-fruit nectars, flavored sparkling waters, RTD iced teas, and craft sodas. They provide reliable bulk sweetness, natural acidity (citric or malic), and background fruit identity, serving as a clean-label alternative to high-fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners.

Craft Brewing, Ciders & Distilling:
The industry-standard fruit feedstock for commercial breweries, cideries, and distillers:

  • High-Gravity Fermentation & Backsweetening: Concentrates supply concentrated fermentable sugars (fructose, glucose, sucrose) without introducing excessive water that dilutes alcohol by volume (ABV).

  • Clear Seltzers & Fruited Beers: Clarified concentrates deliver vibrant natural fruit color and flavor to hard seltzers, ciders, and lagers without clogging sterile cross-flow filters or causing post-packaging turbidity.

Confectionery, Gummy Stoving & Fruit Snacks:
Clarified juice concentrates (e.g., apple, pear, white grape, and black carrot) act as functional clean-label sweeteners and natural colorants in gelatin- and pectin-based gummy candies, fruit chews, and hard candies. Because they contain low free water relative to soluble solids, they shorten oven-drying and starch-mogul stoving cycles while qualifying for “Made with Real Fruit Juice” packaging claims.

Dairy, Frozen Desserts & Bakery Fillings:

  • Yogurt Preps & Ice Cream Variegates: Provides concentrated fruit solids, high Brix sweetness, and natural color to fruit-on-the-bottom yogurts, gelato ribbons, and sorbets without causing icy crystal formation during commercial freeze-thaw cycles.

  • Thermostable Bakery Fillings: Added to commercial fruit fillings, glazes, and pastry centers to enhance fruit flavor without introducing free moisture that would cause crust soggying or boil-out during baking.

With over 45 different fruit and vegetable ingredients available as fruit juice concentrate, our team is able to provide nearly any variation required for your food and beverage manufacturing. The table below has examples that represent a fraction of our current capabilities. Can’t find what you’re looking for? We can help you source it.

Example Juice Concentrates Standard Target Brix FDA Baseline (21 CFR § 101.30) Approx. Dilution Ratio (W:W) Clarity Profile & Primary Industrial Applications
Clarified Apple Juice Concentrate
(De-pectinized / Ultra-filtered)		 70.0° Brix 11.5° Brix 1 part concentrate +
~5.09 parts water
(~6.09-fold)		 Crystal Clear (>95% Transmittance). Clean, neutral sweetness and high malic balance. The primary multi-fruit blending base, natural sweetener for confectionery, hard ciders, and clear RTDs.
Cloudy Orange Juice Concentrate
(Valencia / Brazilian Origins)		 65.0° Brix 11.8° Brix 1 part concentrate +
~4.51 parts water
(~5.51-fold)		 Cloud Stable (Standardized Pulp). Controlled oil (<0.035%). Foundational building block for commercial breakfast juices, tropical nectars, craft Belgian witbiers, and citrus sodas.
Clarified White / Concord Grape
(Tartrate Stabilized)		 68.0° Brix 16.0° Brix 1 part concentrate +
~3.25 parts water
(~4.25-fold)		 Tartrate-Stable Clear Liquid. Cold-stabilized to prevent potassium bitartrate crystal dropout. Ideal clean-label sweetener for gummies, fruit snacks, winemaking, and juice blends.
Clarified Tart Cherry Concentrate
(Montmorency Cultivar)		 68.0° Brix 14.0° Brix 1 part concentrate +
~3.86 parts water
(~4.86-fold)		 Anthocyanins & Natural Melatonin. Concentrated malic acidity and rich garnet color. Benchmark for functional athletic recovery shots, sleep elixirs, hard seltzers, and sour beers.
Clarified Black / Purple Carrot
(Anthocyanin Color Base)		 65.0° Brix 8.5° Brix
(Commercial Baseline)		 1 part concentrate +
~6.65 parts water
(~7.65-fold)		 Acid-Stable Natural Red Colorant. High-potency acylated anthocyanins replacing Red #40 in acidic systems (pH 3.0–4.5). Used in gummy candies, RTD beverages, and fruit preparations.
Clarified Red Beet Concentrate
(Conditiva Taproot)		 65.0° Brix 8.5° Brix
(Commercial Baseline)		 1 part concentrate +
~6.65 parts water
(~7.65-fold)		 Betanin Pigments & Dietary Nitrates. Deep crimson hue and nitric oxide support. Clean-label red colorant for plant-based meats, pre-workout sports nutrition, and confectionery.

  • Juice Concentrate (60°–70° Brix): Produced by mechanically extracting juice, refining the liquid through enzyme de-pectinization and fine filtration (or decanting for cloudy options), and evaporating 80% to 85% of water under vacuum. It is a highly soluble, free-flowing liquid that delivers maximum shipping and storage efficiency.

  • NFC Juice (Single-Strength): Cold-pressed, pasteurized, and packaged directly without ever undergoing thermal concentration or water removal. It preserves 100% of native cellular moisture and volatile aromatics, providing a fresh-squeezed profile at higher logistical weight.

  • Puree Concentrate (28°–36° Brix): Produced by concentrating finely finished whole fruit pulp rather than clarified juice. It retains all native insoluble dietary fibers, structural pectins, and opacity, resulting in a thick, spoonable paste rather than a clear or free-flowing liquid.

  • Clarified Juice Concentrate: De-pectinized with enzymes and passed through ceramic or polymeric cross-flow ultra-filtration membranes to remove all suspended plant cells, insoluble fiber, and cloud. It yields an optically transparent, free-flowing liquid that dissolves completely without sedimentation or haze formation, making it ideal for clear hard seltzers, gummy confectionery syrups, and fortified waters.

  • Cloudy Juice Concentrate: Concentrated without enzymatic de-pectinization or ultra-filtration, retaining native insoluble micro-pulp and colloidal suspensions. It delivers an authentic, opaque appearance, rich mouthfeel, and full-bodied fruit character, making it the preferred choice for nectars, smoothies, and citrus breakfast beverages.

During thermal vacuum evaporation, volatile aromatic top notes (esters, aldehydes, terpenes) evaporate alongside the first cut of water vapor. Modern processors route this vapor into fractional distillation columns, condensing and concentrating these volatile aromatics into natural water-phase fruit essences (typically 100-fold to 500-fold strength) or cold-pressed essential oils. These fractions can be added back into the concentrate at origin (“with essence add-back”) to restore a fresh-squeezed aromatic profile, or supplied separately to allow formulators to dial in exact top-note aromatics on their packaging lines.

No. Standard industrial fruit juice concentrates supplied by Brothers International are 100% derived from whole fruit. They contain zero added cane sugar, corn syrup, artificial colors, synthetic flavors, or chemical preservatives (such as sodium benzoate or potassium sorbate). The elevated Brix level (65°+ Brix) represents purely concentrated, naturally occurring fruit sugars (fructose, glucose, and sucrose). Products can be declared simply by their botanical identity (e.g., “Apple Juice Concentrate” or “Clarified Orange Juice Concentrate”).

Grape juice naturally contains high levels of tartaric acid and potassium. During cold storage, these compounds can form insoluble potassium bitartrate crystals (“wine diamonds” or cream of tartar). Origin processors prevent this by cold stabilization: holding the concentrate at near-freezing temperatures (-2°C to 0°C) for several days, occasionally seeding with food-grade cream of tartar to induce crystallization, and filtering out the precipitated crystals before packaging. To prevent haze in other clarified concentrates, precise enzymatic de-pectinization and de-starching tests (alcohol precipitation test and iodine starch test) confirm total hydrolysis before ultra-filtration.

  • Chilled Storage (0°C to 4°C / 32°F to 40°F): Recommended for light-colored clarified concentrates (such as apple, white grape, and pear) to retard non-enzymatic Maillard browning, maintain pale golden clarity, and preserve fresh flavor for 12 to 18 months.

  • Frozen Storage (-18°C / 0°F or lower): Recommended for high-acid citrus, dark berry, and red vegetable concentrates (e.g., orange, tart cherry, red beet) to preserve delicate anthocyanin pigments and volatile aroma profiles for 18 to 24 months. Because high soluble solids depress the freezing point, product remains a viscous liquid or soft slush, enabling fast defrosting.

  • Aseptic Ambient Storage (15°C to 20°C): Aseptic drums and totes maintain commercial stability for up to 12 months unopened; however, chilled storage is advised for long-term color retention.

Brothers International supplies commercial juice concentrates in standard B2B industrial formats:

  • 5-Gallon Pails (~50–55 lbs net): Designed for pilot plant trials, benchtop R&D, and craft manufacturing.

  • 55-Gallon Steel or Poly Drums (~520–580 lbs net): The industrial standard, available frozen (-18°C) or aseptic with multi-layer barrier liners.

  • 220–275 Gallon Totes / IBCs (~2,600–2,800 lbs net): Intermediate bulk containers engineered for automated batching, maximizing warehouse floor space and eliminating drum dumping labor.

  • Bulk Liquid Tankers (~4,000 to 5,000 Gallons): Direct sanitary food-grade tanker truck deliveries for high-volume commercial beverage bottling facilities.

Every beverage and food formulation requires precise technical parameters to perform consistently on automated production lines. Beyond standard ingredient delivery, Brothers International supports your R&D and QA teams with comprehensive technical documentation and specification matching. We provide batch-specific Certificates of Analysis (COA), detailed product specification sheets, allergen statements, Non-GMO declarations, and heavy metal/pesticide testing.

Whether your product requires a specific pH range, custom titratable acidity, precise color intensity, or tailored seed filtration (down to specific mesh screen sizes), our technical specialists collaborate directly with your formulators to match your operational requirements. To accelerate your product development cycle, we maintain a rapid-ship sample program for bench testing and pilot-scale trials.

Navigating global fruit commodity markets requires proactive supply chain management and real-time market intelligence. Seasonal weather anomalies, shifting freight rates, and harvest yield fluctuations can impact fruit juice concentrate ingredient pricing and availability. Brothers International acts as a strategic procurement partner, offering market forecasts, crop reports, and flexible contracting structures—including multi-quarter forward contracts to lock in budget stability, as well as spot-market sourcing to fill unexpected inventory gaps.

As direct importers, we handle the complexities of international trade so you don’t have to. Our logistics team manages C-TPAT supply chain security, USDA/FDA import clearances, and customs brokerage to eliminate port delays. Backed by strict temperature-monitored cold-chain logistics, we ensure your frozen strawberry concentrates, purees, and essences maintain complete color, flavor, and microbial integrity from origin to your facility floor.