Commercial Supplier

Guava Ingredients

Available Formats:

Guava Puree, Puree Concentrate, IQF

Available From:

Our fruit ingredients are always sourced from the earth’s prime growing regions. Contact us to learn more.

Harvest Seasons:

Guavas grow in the Southern hemisphere from November to August, and in the Northern hemisphere from September to March.

Guava Puree, Guava Puree Concentrate and More

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

Pink, White and More

Hosh International is your source for high-quality Pink (Ruby) and White (Common) guavas, varieties celebrated for their intense, crowd-pleasing sweetness and rich tropical aromatics. The Pink guava, globally revered for its vibrant lycopene-rich hue, provides an ultra-premium, deeply fragrant pulp with a bold, musky-sweet profile that elevates high-end juice blends, premium yogurts, and gourmet purees. For formulations requiring an equally robust sweetness with exceptional color stability, lower acidity, and a distinct, clean finish, we utilize the White guava, celebrated for its high soluble solids and delicate tropical notes.

Paluma and Cattley (Strawberry Guava) varieties are fantastic for meeting precise texture, acidity, and structural dicing or processing requirements. By sourcing these universally recognized varieties directly from their optimal global growing regions, we guarantee consistent brix levels, strict color compliance, and traceable origin for your industrial supply chain.

Our Guava Ingredients

For Food and Beverages

Milled directly from whole, de-seeded guava and gently pasteurized, Guava Puree undergoes minimal processing. Because guavas naturally yield a thick, fleshy pulp rich in stone cells (sclereids), industrial single-strength puree is a highly viscous, opaque liquid that retains the intensely aromatic flavor profile, bold carotenoid or anthocyanin pigments, and nutritional integrity of the fresh harvest. Continuous cold-chain logistics and specialized refrigerated storage to prevent color browning and aroma degradation are required.

  • Premium Beverage & Nectar Pipelines: High-end, refrigerated tropical juice blends, traditional stone-cell-finished nectars, and organic fruit smoothies where consumers demand a creamy, thick, “closest-to-nature” mouthfeel without added hydrocolloids.

  • Craft Beverages & RTDs: Artisanal tropical seltzers, premium hard kombuchas, and ready-to-drink (RTD) mocktails looking for an unadulterated, bold guava flavor, natural opacity, and authentic pink or white cloudiness.

The industrial powerhouse for mass-market formulations, Guava Puree Concentrate is created by removing a large portion of the native water under vacuum at low temperatures. It is typically standardized to a thick, highly stable paste. Dehydration drastically reduces shipping weight and volume, significantly slashing international freight costs from equatorial growing regions. It is highly shelf-stable and can be transported and stored without expensive freezing.

  • High-Volume Beverages & Culinary Sauces: Reconstituted “100% juice” tropical blends, nectars, carbonated soft drinks, and tropical barbecue or sweet-chili sauces where it replaces refined sugars while maintaining a clean label.

  • Confectionery & Bakery Processing: Guava paste bricks, traditional pastries (such as pastelitos), gummy vitamins, and tropical fruit leathers requiring a concentrated flavor, high-pectin binding structural profile, and natural sweetening matrix.

Guava possesses an incredibly distinct tropical aroma profile made up of volatile esters. When guava fruit is processed into distinct pieces rather than crushed into liquids, preservation relies on advanced freezing tech. Industrial processors pass fresh, peeled, and cored fruit through a blast-freezing tunnel to produce Guava IQF (Individually Quick Frozen.) These are clean-cut, free-flowing diced or sliced pieces. Completely free of structural collapse, clumping, or ice crystallization, these pieces are highly stable and engineered to restore the authentic, “fresh-cut guava” visual appeal and bite integrity in solid foods.

  • Commercial Bakery & Frozen Food Inclusions: Frozen tropical pies, par-baked oatmeal cups, industrial fruit parfaits, and thaw-and-serve breakfast pastries where fruit color, shape retention, and defined visual margins are wanted.

  • Foodservice & Dairy Mixing: Dosed directly into automated bulk production lines for Greek yogurt fruit-on-the-bottom preps, cottage cheese mixers, or foodservice salad toppings to instantly elevate the product’s premium visual tier.

Guava Puree, Puree Concentrate

More About Guava Formats

Guavas naturally contain high levels of insoluble stone cells (sclereids), which create a unique gritty, pear-like texture in the raw pulp. If you try to run un-refined guava puree through high-speed commercial filling lines, you will face severe mechanical hurdles, including nozzle clogging, line pressure spikes, and rapid sediment settling in the finished package.

To manage this, R&D and procurement teams must specify the exact finishing mesh size during sourcing. Standard purees are passed through a industrial finisher to remove the seeds and larger stone cells, leaving behind a smooth, micro-finished liquid. For ultra-smooth applications like premium beverages or dairy formulas, lines introduce specialized enzymatic treatments (pectinases) followed by fine-mesh centrifuging. This alters the fiber matrix to ensure a free-flowing, stable liquid that delivers a velvety mouthfeel without causing separation or line downtime.

The choice between single-strength and concentrate comes down to your formula’s water budget and shipping economics. Single-strength guava puree contains its native water content, preserving the absolute freshest tropical aroma and a highly fluid, workable viscosity.

Conversely, Guava Puree Concentrate is a heavy, desugared paste produced via low-temperature vacuum evaporation. R&D teams utilize the concentrate when a formulation requires intense guava solids, rich color, and natural pectin binding power without introducing excess moisture. It serves as an excellent natural humectant and structural binder in low-moisture snack matrices where water activity must be kept low to prevent mold or moisture migration. Logistically, it slashes cold-chain freight and storage costs by more than half.

Unlike purees that are pumped through closed systems, Guava IQF (Individually Quick Frozen) pieces are handled as solid mechanical inclusions. Because guava flesh softens rapidly upon thawing due to cell wall breakdown, IQF cubes or slices must be managed with strict temperature discipline on the production floor.

R&D teams specify IQF when the finished product requires visible, distinct fruit identity and a clean bite margin. To prevent the fruit from turning into a muddy paste during industrial mixing, IQF pieces are typically dosed into the blending tanks while fully frozen at the absolute end of the mixing cycle. This ensures they survive the mechanical shear of paddles or extruders, retaining their geometric integrity during subsequent flash-freezing or par-baking processes.

Hosh International is global importer of various fruit products including Guava.
Products from Hosh International can be sourced as USDA Organic.

Guava Ingredients can be supplied as organic upon request

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 is 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.

Hosh International is your source for all things guava puree, guava puree concentrate, guava IQF.

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