Commercial Supplier

Grape Ingredients

Available Formats:

Grape NFC Juice, Juice Concentrate, Puree, Puree Concentrate, Essence, IQF

Available From:

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

Harvest Seasons:

Grapes grow in the Northern hemisphere from September to November.

Grape NFC Juice, Grape Juice Concentrate and More

Our customers use grapes because of their natural sweetness, versatility, and strong consumer appeal across a wide range of products. Grapes are commonly processed into grape NFC juice, grape juice concentrate, raisins (dried grapes), and extracts, making them useful in beverages, snacks, baked goods, and confectionery.

Their high natural sugar content allows manufacturers to enhance flavor while reducing the need for added sugars. Grapes are also rich in antioxidants, such as resveratrol, which supports heart health and wellness-related marketing claims. Additionally, their mild, familiar flavor blends easily with other ingredients, and their availability in shelf-stable forms makes them ideal for large-scale production and consistent product formulation.

Grape Formats and Varieties

Concord, Niagara and More

Hosh International can source over 20 different varieties of grapes, including Concord and Thompson Seedless (Sultana) grapes, varieties celebrated for their intense flavor and functional color properties. The Concord, globally revered for its deep purple hue, provides a robust slip-skin pulp with a complex, methyl anthranilate-rich aromatic profile that elevates high-end juices, premium jellies, and sports beverages. For formulations requiring a completely neutral sweetness with exceptional color clarity and low flavor interference, we utilize the Thompson Seedless grape. Famed for its high natural sugars and golden-amber concentrate clarity, it serves as an ideal clean-label sweetening base.

Niagara (White Concord) and Ruby Seedless varieties are fantastic for meeting precise acidity adjustments and custom dicing or visual inclusion parameters. By sourcing these universally recognized varieties directly from their optimal global growing regions, we guarantee consistent brix targets, strict color compliance, and traceable origin for your industrial supply chain.

Our Apple Ingredients

For Food and Beverages

Pressed directly from whole, de-stemmed fruit and gently pasteurized, Grape NFC Juice undergoes minimal industrial manipulation. Because grapes feature high water activity and delicate natural esters, this single-strength format is available in distinct red, white, or Concord varieties. It retains the exact polyphenolic profile, crisp acidity, and vibrant, unadulterated flavor notes of the fresh vine harvest. Continuous cold-chain logistics and specialized refrigerated storage are strictly required to prevent early fermentation and oxidative color loss.

  • Premium Beverage & Functional Pipelines: High-end chilled juice lines, non-alcoholic wine alternatives, premium wellness shots, and organic RTD mocktails targeting health-conscious consumers demanding a “zero-added-sugar” label.

  • Fermentation & Craft Brewing: Serving as an authentic, fermentable fluid base for premium craft ciders, sour beers, wild-fermented kombuchas, and boutique vineyard blending.

The absolute powerhouse for mass-market food and beverage formulation, Grape Juice Concentrate is manufactured by thermal evaporation under vacuum at low temperatures to preserve flavor. It is highly standardized to a dense, free-flowing syrup. This drastic reduction in volume and weight significantly cuts down international freight and bulk storage costs. Thanks to its high osmotic pressure, it is highly shelf-stable and can be transported or held for extended periods without expensive freezing equipment.

  • High-Volume Beverages & Sweetening Bases: Reconstituted “100% fruit juice” blends, energy drinks, and flavored carbonated seltzers, where white grape concentrate functions as a colorless, highly neutral sugar replacer that allows for a clean-label “sweetened with fruit juice” claim.

  • Confectionery & Dairy Multi-packs: Mass-market gummy vitamins, fruit snacks, traditional gelatin jellies, ice cream fruit ribbons, and flavored yogurt bases requiring intense, predictable sweetness without altering final product moisture balance.

Grapes possess an exceptionally recognizable, volatile aroma profile made up of methyl anthranilate and other complex esters. When grapes are processed into distinct units rather than crushed into liquid pipelines, preservation relies on advanced IQF technology. Industrial processors sort, wash, and blast-freeze whole grapes to yield Grape IQF (Individually Quick Frozen)—free-flowing, intact berries. Free of structural collapse, clumping, or skin tearing, these units are highly stable and engineered to restore a premium visual tier and firm bite integrity to solid food matrices.

  • Commercial Bakery & Frozen Food Inclusions: Par-baked artisan tarts, gourmet dessert pies, oatmeal cups, and thaw-and-serve breakfast pastries where visual definition and controlled moisture release are required.

  • Prepared Foods & Foodservice Lines: Dosed into bulk industrial salads, frozen meal kits, individual yogurt-topper packs, and institutional food service lines to instantly deliver a fresh, upscale fruit identity.

Grape NFC Juice, Juice Concentrate

More About Grape Formats

Grapes naturally contain high levels of tartaric acid. When grape juice formats (especially concentrates or cold-stored NFC juices) sit in inventory, this acid binds with natural potassium to form potassium bitartrate crystals (commonly known as “wine diamonds”). If unfiltered juice is run through rapid commercial filling lines, these heavy crystals cause severe nozzle clogging, valve scoring, and highly visible, unappealing gritty sedimentation at the bottom of the consumer’s bottle.

To bypass this mechanical and visual flaw, R&D and processing teams must ensure the grape ingredient undergoes industrial detartration (cold stabilization). The juice is chilled close to freezing temperatures and seeded with tartrate crystals to force rapid precipitation in holding tanks prior to final filtration. For ultra-clear beverage pipelines, the liquid is then passed through micro or ultra-filtration systems. This process removes the cloud-inducing crystals and unstable proteins while locking in the soluble sugars, ensuring a perfectly free-flowing, crystal-clear liquid that will not form crystals on store shelves

The choice comes down to functional color, clarifying properties, and clean-label sugar replacement. While single-strength or whole formats bring high water content and fibrous bulk, Grape Juice Concentrate strips out the bulk of the fruit water while concentrating natural fructose and glucose. R&D teams specify White Grape Concentrate when they require an industrial natural sweetener that provides zero color or competing flavor notes, serving as a direct replacement for high-fructose corn syrup.

Red or Concord grape concentrates are chosen when a formula demands a dual-purpose ingredient that acts as a robust sweetening matrix while providing rich red-to-purple pigmentation from natural anthocyanins.

Apple IQF focus entirely on structural particulate integrity. Instead of being crushed, fresh apples are washed, peeled, cored, diced or sliced, and passed through a blast-freezing tunnel so individual pieces do not aggregate.

While purees dissolve into a matrix to act as binders or humectants, IQF apples are used when the consumer needs to see and bite into distinct, intact pieces of fruit. They are engineered to survive structural shear during industrial mixing and retain their geometry during high-heat baking or retort processing.

Unlike liquids or concentrates pumped via secure automated lines, Grape IQF whole berries are treated as delicate solid inclusions. Because grape skins can fracture and split upon thawing due to water expansion, maintaining strict sub-zero handling parameters on the factory floor is mandatory.

To prevent individual grapes from tearing, releasing their internal sugars, or turning into a sticky mass in the hopper, R&D specifies that IQF grapes must be kept fully frozen until the absolute final stage of batch blending. They are introduced to automated mixers using low-shear paddles at the tail end of the production cycle, protecting the skin barrier so the fruit delivers an authentic, juicy pop upon consumer consumption.

Hosh supplies food and beverage manufactures with grape ingredients in nearly every variety and format.
Products from Hosh International can be sourced as USDA Organic.

Grape 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 grapes are sourced from the earth’s prime growing regions where farming expertise, climate and soil composition come together to produce grapes 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 grape NFC juice, grape juice concentrate, grape puree and grape puree concentrate.

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.