Bulk Fruit Ingredients

Guava Formats

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Guava Puree, Guava IQF and More…

Guava In All Its Formats

Our customers use guava because of its strong tropical flavor, high nutritional value, and versatility in a wide range of products. Guava puree and guava puree concentrate have a naturally sweet and slightly tangy taste that works well in beverages, juices, jams, candies, and dairy products. It is exceptionally rich in vitamin C, as well as fiber and antioxidants, which supports immune health and wellness marketing claims.

Guava is commonly processed into purees, concentrates, and pastes, allowing for extended shelf life and consistent use in large-scale manufacturing. Additionally, its distinctive aroma and pink or white flesh enhance both the sensory and visual appeal of products, making it a popular ingredient for creating flavorful and premium offerings.

Guava Formats and Varieties

Guava Ingredient Solutions

We provide a premier selection of tropical guava ingredients, like guava puree, meticulously processed to meet the vibrant color and robust flavor demands of the global food and beverage industries. Known for its distinctively sweet, aromatic profile and high nutrient density, our guava lineup is sourced from peak-harvest crops and handled with specialized care. We offer our guava ingredients in optimized formats designed to fit seamlessly into diverse applications, from exotic beverage blends and dairy bases to premium baked goods and fruit preps.

  • Guava Puree: Single-strength puree extracted from sweet pink or white guava varieties. The fruit is washed, crushed, and deseeded to yield a smooth, velvety texture that retains the intense aroma and tropical flavor profile of fresh guava. It serves as an excellent foundational ingredient for nectars, smoothies, cocktails, yogurts, and ice creams.

  • Guava Puree Concentrate: Produced by gently removing water from our single-strength puree under a vacuum, this highly viscous, high-Brix ingredient offers incredible blending efficiency. It delivers a deeply concentrated punch of flavor and natural color, making it an ideal, cost-effective solution for industrial fruit fillings, confectionery gummies, jams, and large-scale juice compounding.

  • Guava IQF: Ripe, firm guavas are carefully peeled, deseeded, and cut into precise dices or slices before entering our blast-freezing tunnels. This process locks in the fruit’s bright color, structural geometry, and natural moisture, providing free-flowing pieces that add premium visual appeal and texture to frozen desserts, bakery toppings, and tropical fruit mixes.

Dennick FruitSource is the premier US supplier of guava puree, guava puree concentrate and guava IQF.
As global importer of premium guava ingredients, Dennick FruitSource can handle the logistics for your fruit products.
Our Guava Ingredients

Tailored to Your Needs

Processing guava into guava puree presents unique technical challenges, particularly due to the presence of hard, gritty stone cells (sclereids) and a dense central seed core. Our state-of-the-art facilities utilize advanced, multi-stage refining screens and centrifugal finishers to effectively remove these abrasives, resulting in an exceptionally smooth puree with a refined particle size. To preserve the fruit’s signature pink or yellow-white hue and high Vitamin C content, we employ rapid thermal processing (UHT) followed by immediate flash-cooling. This prevents enzymatic browning and thermal degradation, ensuring a fresh-tasting ingredient with excellent color stability.

Our processing lines operate under strict GFSI-recognized certifications and adhere to absolute HACCP compliance. Every batch of guava undergoes comprehensive laboratory analysis to guarantee that it meets your precise corporate standards and global regulatory requirements:

  • Brix and Acidity Optimization: Carefully standardized to deliver a uniform, predictable sweet-to-tart ratio regardless of seasonal crop fluctuations.

  • Viscosity and Bostwick Metrics: Monitored to ensure consistency in flow and thickness, which is critical for automated pumping and automated depositing systems.

  • Texture and Sieve Testing: Ensuring that purees achieve the exact micron-level smoothness required for smooth dairy and beverage applications.

  • Microbiological Integrity: Rigorous testing protocols to ensure absolute commercial sterility in our aseptic products and pristine safety in our IQF lines.

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Global Logistics and Cold-Chain Mastery

Managing a tropical fruit supply chain demands precision, agility, and absolute temperature control. Because guava is highly sensitive to oxidation and temperature fluctuations, our logistics framework is built to safeguard the aromatic and visual integrity of our guava puree and guava puree concentrate from the moment it leaves our processing floor to its arrival at your loading dock. We offer a versatile range of industrial-grade packaging configurations to match your specific production scale and handling capabilities.

  • Aseptic Drums and Totes: Our single-strength and concentrated guava purees are packed into high-barrier, multi-layer aseptic bags inside 55-gallon steel drums or 250-gallon rigid IBC totes. This allows for ambient shipping and storage, eliminating the need for expensive frozen warehousing until the product is opened.

  • Frozen Bulk Packaging: For specialized formulations requiring non-aseptic, frozen purees, we offer deep-frozen drum options that preserve maximum raw-fruit character.

  • Strictly Monitored IQF Freight: Our guava IQF pieces are packed in heavy-duty, poly-lined corrugated cases and maintained strictly at -18°C (0°F) or colder throughout transit. We utilize real-time temperature tracking to guarantee the fruit remains free-flowing and clumping-free.

Through strategic inventory positioning and robust multi-modal transport partnerships, we protect your business against supply chain volatility. We ensure a dependable, year-round supply of premium guava ingredients that aligns seamlessly with your just-in-time manufacturing schedules.

The Brothers International

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

As your food ingredient partner, we handle all of the logistics around importing and shipping of fruit products.
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Industry Glossery

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.