As global leaders in all things fruit ingredients, our vast network of partners and suppliers allows us to source a huge selection of fruits in nearly every format. Looking for something specific? We can help.

Ginger

Our customers use ginger because of its distinctive flavor, functional properties, and well-known health benefits. Ginger provides a warm, spicy taste that enhances a wide range of products, including beverages, sauces, baked goods, and snacks. It is also valued for its natural bioactive compounds, such as gingerol, which are associated with digestive support, anti-inflammatory effects, and overall wellness, allowing for strong health-focused marketing claims. In addition to flavor, ginger can act as a natural preservative due to its antimicrobial properties. It is commonly processed into powders, extracts, juices, and pastes, which improve shelf life and make it easy to incorporate into large-scale manufacturing.

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

Ginger can be supplied as organic upon request

Available From

Thailand, Peru

Available As

• Ginger NFC Juice
• Ginger Puree

Harvest Seasons

Ginger grows in the Southern hemisphere from August to October, and in the Northern hemisphere from December to March.

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Botanical: Zingiber officinale Roscoe

The Horizontal Growing Rhizome

Ginger is a flowering plant whose edible part is the rhizome, or underground stem, commonly referred to as ginger root; it is commonly processed into ginger NFC juice or ginger puree. It is believed to have originated in Southeast Asia and has been used for thousands of years in both culinary and traditional practices. Ginger has a firm, knobby appearance with a light brown skin and a pale yellow interior. It has a strong, spicy aroma and a warm, pungent taste. The plant grows in tropical and subtropical climates and is typically harvested once the rhizome has matured underground.


Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a perennial monocotyledonous plant in the Zingiberaceae family, closely related to turmeric, cardamom, and galangal. Indigenous to Maritime Southeast Asia, ginger is cultivated globally for its aromatic, creeping subterranean stem network (rhizome). Revered across the functional beverage, craft brewing, confectionery, and savory culinary sectors, ginger delivers a sharp, biting heat, warm peppery undertones, and crisp, lemony-citrus aromatic top notes.

  • Peruvian Ecotypes (The Organic Functional Benchmark): Cultivated in the high-altitude Amazonian cloud-forest valleys of Peru (Junín region). Peruvian ginger is characterized by smaller, denser rhizomes with blue-ringed or yellow flesh, thin skin, low free water and high essential oil content. It is the global premier choice for organic functional wellness shots, immunity beverages, and craft brewing.

  • Chinese Yellow Ginger (The High-Yield Commercial Workhorse): Grown extensively in Shandong province. Features large, plump, pale-yellow “hands” with thick, juicy lobes, higher natural water content, low fibrous stringiness, and a rounded, less abrasive pungency. Chinese ginger provides maximum liquid extraction yield, making it ideal for high-volume commercial ginger NFC juices, ginger beers, and culinary purees.

  • Indian Cochin & Calicut Cultivars: Renowned for their intensely aromatic essential oil profile, deep golden interior, and pronounced lemon-camphoric top notes, widely utilized for specialty brewing and spice pastes.

  • Ginger NFC Juice: Cleaned, unpeeled whole rhizomes are shredded and cold-pressed via continuous twin-screw or hydraulic belt presses. The expressed cloudy juice is flash-pasteurized (HTST) and passed through high-speed centrifugal decanters to remove excess heavy native starches (which would otherwise gel upon heating) while standardizing suspended micro-pulp, yielding a vibrant, fluid, golden-amber liquid.

  • Ginger Puree: Cured, blanched rhizomes are micro-milled through dual-stage colloid mills and precision finisher screens under vacuum deaeration. The puree retains the rhizome’s insoluble structural cellulose and soluble fiber, yielding a silky, non-stringy, viscous paste designed for automated dosing lines and culinary matrices.

Brothers International partners with origin processors equipped with high-pressure rotary spray washers, automated starch-decanting separators, and vacuum deaerators to lock in clean pungency and prevent oxidative browning.

Global Sourcing Through the Brothers International Network:
Commercial ginger cultivation requires warm, humid tropical and subtropical microclimates with abundant annual rainfall, high temperatures, and deep, well-aerated, humus-rich loam soils with good drainage to prevent rhizome rot. Because ginger rhizomes grow underground and have intricate, knobby surfaces that can hold soil residues, selecting processors with advanced destoning and multi-stage sanitizing flumes is essential. Brothers International connects North American procurement teams to premier agricultural basins across the globe.

  • South America (Peru & Brazil): Peru’s Junín and Chanchamayo provinces represent the global epicenter of organic ginger processing, supplying certified organic ginger NFC juice and ginger puree with superior pungency and full farm-gate traceability. Brazil supplies large, plump, conventional and organic processing rhizomes with competitive trans-Atlantic maritime access.

  • East & Southeast Asia (China, Vietnam & Thailand): China (Shandong) operates large-scale processing facilities yielding high-clarity decanted juices and smooth purees. Vietnam and Thailand provide strategic tropical harvest depth and organic plantation acreage.

  • South Asia (India): Kerala, Assam, and Meghalaya produce traditional, high-oil ginger varieties, offering dedicated organic and conventional industrial capacity.

  • Central America (Costa Rica): Strategic tropical sourcing corridor providing geographical diversification and short overland and sea transit routes to North American ports.

By coordinating supply across Peru, Brazil, China, India, and Costa Rica, Brothers International insulates your manufacturing facility against localized drought events, monsoon anomalies, and ocean freight bottlenecks.

Harvest Cycles & Continuous Supply Management:
Ginger rhizomes reach full physiological maturity 8 to 10 months after planting, marked by the wilting and drying of the above-ground pseudo-stems. In the Northern Hemisphere (China, India, Costa Rica), harvesting occurs from December through April. In the Southern Hemisphere (Peru and Brazil), harvesting occurs counter-seasonally from June through November. Once harvested, cured whole unpeeled rhizomes can be maintained in temperature- and humidity-controlled storage for several months without quality loss, allowing processing plants to operate continuous pressing and pureeing runs 52 weeks a year.

Managing multi-continental production schedules and international cold-chain logistics is a core capability of Brothers International. Our operations and logistics teams oversee multi-quarter inventory allocations, deep-frozen ocean transport (-18°C), chilled distribution, USDA/FDA clearances, C-TPAT supply chain security, and strategic warehousing across North America. Whether your facility requires frozen 5-gallon pails of single-strength ginger NFC juice for pilot R&D batches or aseptic 55-gallon drums of organic ginger puree for commercial manufacturing, our network guarantees ready inventory year-round.

Rigorous Quality Control, Traceability & Compliance:
Because ginger grows subterraneanly, commercial processing requires strict technical oversight—specifically regarding abrasive washing to remove residual silt, screening for heavy metals (lead, cadmium, arsenic), testing for agricultural residues, validating microbial pathogen kill-steps, and standardizing [6]-gingerol content.

Every supplier within the Brothers International network undergoes a comprehensive auditing process to guarantee complete supply chain traceability, sustainable farming practices, fair labor standards, and strict compliance with USDA, FDA, and international food safety standards. We deliver ginger ingredients backed by complete technical documentation and top-tier industry certifications, including GFSI benchmarks (BRC, SQF, FSSC 22000), USDA Organic (NOP), Kosher, Non-GMO Project Verified, and Halal standards.

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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 Ginger is sourced from the earth’s prime growing regions where farming expertise, climate and soil composition come together to produce Ginger 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.

Brothers International is your source for high-quality ginger NFC juice and ginger puree.
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A Reference Guide for Fruit Ingredient Terminology

Check out our glossary for a consolidated reference of commonly used terminology across the global fruit ingredient industry. It provides straightforward definitions and context for the language and concepts referenced throughout the industry.

Ginger NFC Juice, Ginger Puree

Facts and Questions About Ginger Ingredients

As fruit ingredient experts, we can work with manufacturers to provide nearly any specification of ginger NFC juice and ginger puree concentrate – contact our team to get started. The table below represents a handful of the most common brix levels and concentration.

Target Spec / Solids Product Format Why Manufacturers Choose It & Applications
3.5° – 6.0° Brix
(5%–8% Total Solids)		 Single-Strength Ginger NFC Juice
(Direct-Pressed / Frozen or Chilled)		 Fresh-Cracked Pungency & Crisp Aromatics. Cold-pressed directly from cleaned rhizomes. Centrifugally decanted to remove heavy sediment starches while preserving natural gingerols and volatile zingiberene. Free-flowing and fully soluble. Preferred for functional immunity shots, RTD ginger beers, kombucha, and craft brewing.
4.0° – 7.0° Brix
(7%–11% Total Solids)		 Single-Strength Ginger Puree
(Micro-Milled / Frozen or Aseptic)		 Whole-Rhizome Body & Smooth Suspension. Steam-cooked, finely finished rhizomes milled through fine screens (< 0.033″ mesh). Retains the rhizome’s complete dietary fiber and natural body with zero fibrous stringiness. Essential for culinary stir-fry sauces, curry pastes, marinades, bakery items (gingerbread), and salad dressings.
3.5° – 6.0° Brix
(Organic Certified)		 USDA Organic Ginger Juice & Puree
(Peruvian Origin / Frozen or Aseptic)		 High-Potency Andean Benchmark. Certified organic Peruvian ginger delivering elevated [6]-gingerol concentrations and intense aromatic zing. Cultivated without synthetic inputs, non-GMO, and rigorously screened for heavy metals. The foundational base for certified organic wellness shots and clean-label functional beverages.

  • Ginger NFC Juice (3.5°–6.0° Brix): Expressed cold from fresh rhizomes and centrifugally decanted to remove excess native starches. It flows like water, dispersing instantly into liquids without settling, haze, or gritty mouthfeel. It delivers fresh, crisp, sharp heat dominated by vibrant lemon-citrus aromatic top notes. Preferred for clear beverages, seltzers, kombucha, and immunity shots.

  • Ginger Puree (4.0°–7.0° Brix): Produced by micro-milling steam-blanched whole rhizomes through fine finisher screens. It retains the whole rhizome’s dietary fiber, structural insolubles, and natural body, creating a smooth, velvety paste. It adds rich viscosity and clinging cling-properties to culinary stir-fry sauces, dressings, and bakery batters.

  • 6-Gingerol: The primary pungent bioactive found in raw, fresh-pressed ginger. It provides a bright, tingling, lively heat centered on the tongue and palate, accompanied by fresh citrusy-herbal aromatics. It is the primary target compound for fresh-pressed wellness shots and premium ginger ales.

  • 6-Shogaol: Formed when gingerol loses a water molecule under heat or drying. Shogaol is roughly twice as pungent as gingerol and produces a lingering, deep, throat-warming burn. While desired in certain herbal teas and winter lozenges, excessive shogaol can make cold-pressed beverages harsh and unpalatable.

  • Zingerone: Formed when gingerols undergo retro-aldol degradation during extended cooking or high-temperature roasting. Zingerone has a much lower pungency threshold and delivers a sweet, warm, woody, and balsamic flavor profile characteristic of cooked gingerbread and confectionery.

Raw ginger rhizomes naturally contain between 3% and 8% native starch. When raw, un-decanted ginger juice is heated during pasteurization, the starch passes through its gelatinization window (65°C to 75°C / 149°F to 167°F), swelling and forming a thick, gummy paste that clogs heat exchangers and causes unsightly cloud separation in bottled beverages. Brothers International partners with processors who use a two-stage starch management system:

  1. Centrifugal Decanting: Fresh-pressed juice passes through high-speed horizontal decanters or disc-stack centrifuges that spin out heavy, dense insoluble starch granules before thermal pasteurization.

  2. Standardized Pulp Control: The decanted juice maintains a standardized light suspension of soluble solids (5% to 15% pulp), ensuring a fluid liquid that remains stable across shelf life without sediment fallout or heat-induced gelation.

Peruvian ginger is cultivated primarily in the high-altitude, volcanic jungle soils of the Junín and Chanchamayo regions. The unique combination of intense tropical sunlight, rich organic soil, and altitude stresses the plant to synthesize higher concentrations of secondary metabolites:

  • Elevated [6]-Gingerol: Peruvian ginger consistently tests between 1.5% and 2.5% dry weight [6]-gingerol—significantly higher than standard commercial varieties.

  • Intense Pungency: A smaller inclusion rate yields the same functional heat and digestive kick in 2oz wellness shots, reducing ingredient usage rates and formula costs.

  • Clean-Label Organic Pedigree: Cultivated on dedicated smallholder cooperative farms without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, backed by USDA Organic, Non-GMO Project Verified, and Fair Trade certifications.

Brothers International supplies commercial ginger puree and ginger NFC juice in standard B2B industrial packaging formats – you can contact us directly here on our website to get additional specific details:

  • Ginger NFC Juice & Ginger Puree (Frozen): Packaged in 5-gallon pails (~40–45 lbs), 55-gallon steel drums (~450–500 lbs).

  • Frozen Storage (-18°C / 0°F or lower): Recommended for natural pH ginger NFC juices and purees to preserve fresh-cut [6]-gingerol potency, delicate volatile aromatics, and natural golden color for 18 to 24 months.

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 ginger NFC juice and ginger puree 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.

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Certifications

As a leader in sourcing organic ingredients, we work closely with our suppliers to ensure full traceability, sustainability and to ensure they comply with all international regulations for chemical residues and pesticides. We are organic certified and all our organic products are NOP certified and Kosher certified.

Brothers International Food Holdings is a proud member of the CUSTOMS – TRADE PARTNERSHIP AGAINST TERRORISM (C-TPAT) program. C-TPAT is a voluntary U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) program that partners with businesses to strengthen supply chain security and reduce risks, including terrorism. For more information, visit www.cbp.gov

All our products are Kosher and GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative) Certified. We can supply all of our products with organic certification and, if required, unpasteurized purées and juices.

We have joined the global movement to protect the environment and improve lives for farmers and workers around the world. We help farmers in developing countries builds sustainable businesses that positively influence their communities. Brothers International can assist you in sourcing Fair Trade Certified™ and Demeter (Bio-dynamic)™ ingredients.

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