Pear NFC Juice, Pear Juice Concentrate
Our customers use pears because of their mild sweetness, smooth texture, and versatility in a wide range of products. Pears have a delicate flavor that blends easily with other ingredients, making pear NFC juice suitable for beverages, baby foods, desserts, and sauces. Their soft texture allows them to be processed into pear puree and pear juice concentrate that provides natural sweetness, moisture, and a smooth mouthfeel without the need for added sugars or fats.
Pears are also a source of fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants, supporting health-focused marketing claims. Additionally, they are available in shelf-stable forms such as canned, dried, and pureed products, making them practical for large-scale manufacturing and consistent product formulation.
Pear Formats and Varieties
Bartlett, Anjou and More
We source high-quality Bartlett (Williams) and Anjou pear varieties, selections optimized for distinct industrial viscosity and sweetening thresholds. The Bartlett pear, globally revered as the processing benchmark, features a soft, fine-textured flesh with a highly aromatic, musky-sweet profile, making it the premier choice for manufacturing velvety smooth Pear Purees, concentrates, and premium infant nutrition lines. For formulations requiring a more robust, structurally firm cell matrix or a highly neutral, clear fluid base for juice concentration, we utilize the Anjou variety. Prized for its uniform juice yield and balanced sugars, it provides excellent processing stability across continuous-feed evaporator lines.
By sourcing these processing-specific cultivars directly from optimal agricultural valleys (including the Pacific Northwest, Argentina, and Europe), we guarantee consistent Brix targets, strict turbidity compliance, and complete lot traceability for your industrial supply chain.
Our Pear Ingredients
For Food and Beverages
Pressed directly from whole, washed pears and gently pasteurized, Pear NFC Juice undergoes minimal industrial handling. This single-strength format retains the delicate, authentic flavor profile, mild acidity, and native nutritional integrity of the fresh orchard harvest. Because pear juice has a naturally low acidity profile, continuous cold-chain logistics and specialized refrigerated storage are strictly mandatory to prevent microbiological spoilage and rapid enzymatic browning.
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Premium Beverage & Juicing Pipelines: High-end chilled juice blends, organic child-targeted multi-packs, and functional wellness drinks where a gentle, low-acid, “closest-to-nature” fruit fluid base is required.
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Craft Fermentation: Serving as an unadulterated, premium fermentable sugar base for traditional perries (pear ciders), fruit-infused sour beers, and artisanal kombucha lines.
The ultimate bulk sweetening powerhouse for mass-market production, Pear Juice Concentrate is manufactured by evaporating native water content under vacuum at low temperatures. It is highly standardized to a dense, clear, free-flowing syrup. This massive reduction in volume and weight significantly slashes international freight and bulk storage footprints. Thanks to its high osmotic pressure, it is highly shelf-stable and can be transported or held without expensive freezing equipment.
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High-Volume Beverages & Bulk Sweetening: Reconstituted “100% fruit juice” blends, flavored waters, sports drinks, and RTD teas. Because it is incredibly neutral in color and flavor when fully clarified, it serves as an ideal replacement for high-fructose corn syrup.
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Confectionery & Healthy Snacks: Fruit gummies, continuous-feed fruit leather lines, fruit snacks, and ice cream ribbons requiring a consumer-friendly “sweetened with fruit juice” designation on the back panel.
Produced by steaming and finely milling the flesh of the fruit, Pear Puree and Pear Puree Concentrate protect the fruit’s structural cell matrix. Pear puree is inherently rich in natural pectins and fibers, delivering an incredibly smooth mouthfeel, opaque cream color, and robust natural viscosity.
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Infant & Toddler Nutrition: The gold-standard hypoallergenic base matrix for baby food pouches, stage-1 smooth jars, and toddler purees where clean-label thickening, gentle digestion, and nutrient density are non-negotiable.
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Commercial Baking & Culinary Sauces: Functions as a clean-label humectant, texturizer, and fat replacer in soft-baked snack bars, pastries, and muffins to boost moisture retention, control water activity, and extend shelf life.
During the vacuum thermal concentration of pear juice or puree, ultra-delicate, water-soluble volatile esters and aroma compounds flash off. These vapors are captured dynamically via fractional distillation to create Pear Essence. It is crystal clear, completely free of sugars or acids, and engineered exclusively to re-introduce top-note aromatics.
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Clear & Light Beverage Pathways: Clear hard seltzers, flavored sparkling waters, clear tonics, and functional mocktails requiring an immediate, crisp, front-of-mouth pear aroma without adding sugar, cloudiness, or sediment.
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Aroma Restoration: Dosed at fractions of a percent at the cold-end of production lines to restore the fresh “orchard-picked” aroma notes lost during high-heat juice concentration or pasteurization.
Pear NFC Juice, Juice Concnetrate
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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 pears are sourced from the earth’s prime growing regions where farming expertise, climate and soil composition come together to produce pear 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.








