Strawberry Juice Concentrate, Strawberry Puree and More
Strawberries are small, red fruits that grow on low, spreading plants and belong to the genus Fragaria. They have a unique structure, with tiny seeds (achenes) on the outside rather than inside the fruit. Our customers use strawberry juice concentrate and strawberry puree for various food and beverage products.
Strawberries are believed to have originated in Europe and the Americas, and modern cultivated varieties are the result of hybridization. They have a soft texture and a juicy interior. Strawberries grow best in temperate climates and are typically harvested in late spring and early summer, although greenhouse cultivation allows for extended availability.
Strawberry Formats and Varieties
Camarosa, Albion and More
At the core of our fruit ingredient portfolio are the world’s most sought-after strawberry varieties, ensuring that your products leverage the distinct flavor profiles and technical properties consumers already love. We source high-quality Camarosa and Albion strawberries, two varieties celebrated for their exceptional structural integrity and deep, crowd-pleasing color. The Camarosa, a dominant powerhouse in industrial processing, provides a large, firm, and intensely red berry with a balanced sweet-and-tart profile. Its high density and lower moisture-bleed characteristics make it the perfect candidate for high-shear pureeing, freezing, and uniform dicing.
For formulations requiring a more premium, front-of-mouth sweetness and a classic “wild strawberry” aroma, we recommend the Albion variety. Celebrated for its high sugar content and brilliant, uniform interior color, the Albion acts as an ideal base ingredient for natural sweetening and high-end fruit preparations.
We offer specialized ingredients derived from many other strawberry varieties like the Senga Sengana and Hood varieties to meet precise aroma extraction and pureeing requirements. Discovered and perfected in Europe, the legendary Senga Sengana is a smaller berry with a soft pulp but an incredibly dark red interior and unparalleled flavor depth. Because its pigment runs completely through to the core, it is highly prized in industrial preserve manufacturing, dairy blending, and juice concentrates where a naturally dark, vibrant red color is required without adding artificial dyes.
Conversely, when your product line demands an ultra-premium, deeply aromatic, and delicate profile, our Hood strawberry ingredients—famed in the Pacific Northwest—deliver an exceptionally sweet, low-acid, and fine-textured matrix. By sourcing these universally recognized varieties directly from their optimal global growing regions, we guarantee consistent brix-to-acid ratios, strict color compliance, and traceable origin for your industrial supply chain.
Our Strawberry Ingredients
For Food and Beverages
Produced by evaporating the native water content under vacuum from whole, de-stemmed strawberries, Strawberry Juice Concentrate serves as an industrial powerhouse for efficient, high-volume production. Because strawberries naturally contain delicate volatile top-notes, the concentration process typically standardizes the liquid to a deep red, free-flowing syrup. This dramatic reduction in volume and weight slashes international freight costs and allows the ingredient to be transported without expensive refrigerated shipping, resisting microbiological spoilage through high osmotic pressure.
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High-Volume Beverage & Dairy Pipelines: Reconstituted “100% fruit juice” blends, carbonated soft drinks, flavored waters, and drinkable yogurts where it replaces high-fructose corn syrup while maintaining a consumer-friendly “sweetened with fruit juice” designation.
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Confectionery & Bakery Processing: Fruit gummies, gelatin desserts, bakery fillings, and ice cream ribbons looking for an intense, easily dispersible strawberry flavor profile and rich, natural anthocyanin red pigmentation.
Produced by mashing and finishing whole, de-stemmed strawberries, single-strength Strawberry Puree can be ordered as either seeded or seedless depending on processing requirements. It protects the native fibrous cell matrix, providing authentic viscosity, opaque red pigmentation, and real fruit pulp texture. Strawberry puree is highly shear-sensitive and prone to mechanical browning. It requires strict temperature control during industrial pumping and blending to protect heat-sensitive volatile flavor compounds and natural red color.
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Dairy & Plant-Based Pipelines: Fruit preps for traditional stirred yogurts, drinkable kefir, and oat- or coconut-based spoonable yogurt bases where visible fruit pulp and a smooth, thick mouthfeel are required.
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Infant & Toddler Nutrition: Clean-label baby food pouches, fruit purees, and stage-2 toddler snack formulas that require organic, single-ingredient thickening without starch additives.
Created by evaporating a high percentage of native water content under vacuum from a seedless puree base, Strawberry Puree Concentrate yields a dense, highly viscous paste. It offers an intense delivery of soluble fruit solids and rich color in a compact, logistically optimized format. Strawberry Puree Concentrate maximizes cold-storage efficiency and slashes drum shipping costs compared to single-strength formats. Due to its high viscosity, it demands heavy-duty positive displacement pumps on the production line and acts as an excellent low-moisture binding matrix.
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Bakery & Pastry Production: High-solids fruit fillings for toaster pastries, pocket pies, and center-filled soft cookies where water activity must be kept low to prevent migration and soggy dough.
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Confectionery & Healthy Snacks: Chewy fruit bars, raw energy bites, and pressed fruit leathers where the concentrate serves as a binding agent, structural humectant, and clean-label alternative to refined sugars.
Strawberry Juice Concentrate, Puree
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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 strawberry is sourced from the earth’s prime growing regions where farming expertise, climate and soil composition come together to produce strawberry 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.
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.
