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Natural Colors From Nature’s Palette

Re-formulating CPG food and beverage products requires careful consideration of many factors, including pH, light exposure, packaging and flavor. If you’re navigating these complexities, our expert team is here to help with fruit-based color solutions from the earth’s prime growing regions.

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

Products can be supplied as organic upon request

Popular synthetic dyes like Red #3, Red #40, Yellow#5, Yellow #6 and Blue #2 can be replaced with natural colors from fruits and vegetables.
The Foundation of Everything We Do

Our Global Supply Network

Natural color reformulation may start in the lab, but success depends on your supply chain. Our global supply network includes over 150 suppliers in over 30 countries and more than 700 customers. All our suppliers undergo a rigorous vetting process to ensure we work only with the highest-quality processors. 

We can fully guarantee traceability, sustainability, and compliance with all international regulations pertaining to chemical residues and pesticides. We fully support the principles of responsible farming and aim to always do our part to help ensure the long-term sustainability of the earth’s natural resources.

Global display of our partner and supplier locations around the globe.
The Reason We Do It

Our Customers

Our four Ingredients Divisions are proud to serve an incredibly diverse customer base. From emerging brands to the largest Fortune 500 CPG companies, we are committed to ensuring that every customer is supported with care, discretion, and the highest level of confidentiality. Our mission is to be a true supply chain partner – one you can rely on every step of the way.

  • Beverage Manufacturers

  • Food Service

  • Flavor Houses

  • Nutraceuticals

  • Baby Food Producers

  • Dairies

  • Food Prep

  • Breweries

What to Consider

Natural Food Coloring Solutions

  • What colors are you replacing?
  • What other ingredients are in your formulation?
  • How will your product be processed?
  • How will it be stored or displayed (refrigerated, frozen,…)?
  • Will packaging affect color stability?
  • Is your priority the closest natural match regardless of cost, or the best balance of performance and value?
  • What heat/process stability requirements should be considered?
  • Are there any market-specific regulatory requirements?
Beet NFC juice, Beet Juice Concentrate and Beet Puree from Brothers International.
Your elderberry NFC juice and elderberry juice concentrate supplier.
Take The Next Steps

Contact the Experts

  1. Connect – Email ingredients@brothersinternational.com.
  2. Discover – Identify the best natural color solution.
  3. Test – Evaluate samples in your application.
  4. Launch – Finalize pricing, availability, and lead times.

FROM ACAI TO YUZU

We Source the Full Range of Nature’s Colors

Proud to be one of the largest importers of fruit concentrates and purees in the United States, we also supply an abundance of imported and domestic NFC juice, IQF, canned, essence, oil, and more.

Regulatory actions by the FDA, legislative bans at state levels, and shifting consumer demand are forcing a market-wide phase-out of artificial petroleum-based colors. Major retailers and consumer brands are actively replacing these synthetic color additives with clean-label, fruit- and vegetable-derived colorants to comply with new safety regulations and meet consumer expectations for natural ingredients.

Natural food coloring replacement combinations for synthetic dyes across the red and pink color spectrum (The list below is not universal, just a few possibilities that can be achieved with the right ingredients – contact us to help define the right color substitutions.)

  • Black Carrot + Red Beetroot: Delivers a vibrant ruby-to-magenta red. Black carrot provides low-pH stability in beverages, while beetroot adds depth to neutral-pH applications like dairy and gummies.

  • Red Radish + Apple Concentrate: Produces an electric pinkish-red shade. Radish anthocyanins offer high heat and light stability, with apple acting as a flavor-neutral carrier base.

  • Purple Sweet Potato + Red Cabbage: Yields a heat-stable, violet-red hue ideal for high-temperature baking, baked goods, and extruded cereals.

  • Tomato (Lycopene) + Beetroot: Provides a deep, warm brick-red suited for fat-based systems, sauces, dressings, and plant-based meat analogs.

  • Dark Sweet Cherry + Black Currant: Delivers a deep burgundy shade with natural tartness, popular in syrups, fruit fillings, and confectionery.

Natural food coloring replacement combinations for synthetic dyes across the yellow and orange color spectrum (The list below is not universal, just a few possibilities that can be achieved with the right ingredients – contact us to help define the right color substitutions.)

  • Turmeric + Yellow Carrot: Replaces FD&C Yellow #5 with a brilliant, golden lemon-yellow. Excellent for baked goods, pasta, and dry beverage mixes.

  • Beta-Carotene (Carrot) + Pumpkin: Offers a soft warm-yellow to light-orange shade that is highly stable in dairy, ice cream, and soups.

  • Annatto + Turmeric: Provides a robust cheddar-orange shade engineered for oil-soluble, high-fat processing environments.

  • Mango + Passionfruit Concentrate: Offers a soft pastel peach-orange that provides both natural color and functional solids in smoothies and sorbets.

Natural food coloring replacement combinations for synthetic dyes across the blue and purple color spectrum (The list below is not universal, just a few possibilities that can be achieved with the right ingredients – contact us to help define the right color substitutions.)

  • Red Cabbage (pH-Adjusted) + Purple Sweet Potato: Creates a denim-to-royal blue shade capable of maintaining stability across neutral-pH ranges.

  • Blueberry + Concord Grape Skin: Delivers deep indigo and royal purple shades for yogurt fruit preps, preserves, and fruit snacks.

Natural food coloring replacement combinations for synthetic dyes across the green and brown color spectrum (The list below is not universal, just a few possibilities that can be achieved with the right ingredients – contact us to help define the right color substitutions.)

  • Red Cabbage + Yellow Carrot: Yields an acid-stable lime-to-olive green specifically formulated for low-pH beverages and RTD teas.

  • Black Carrot + Sodium Copper Chlorophyllin: Produces a deep, rich forest green suited for mints, hard candies, and baked goods.

Brothers International is your source for high-quality turmeric NFC juice and turmeric puree.