Freeze Dried Fruits
Chaucer Foods is a leading manufacture of freeze dried fruits with an extensive and diverse product range to suit many applications. In the past, freeze dried fruits have been extensively used in breakfast cereals to enhance variety, convenience and naturalness of these products. More recently, the unique benefits of freeze dried fruits have been applied to other foods in areas such as confectionary, bakery products, biscuits, snack foods and others.
Product range
Chaucer food's wide product range is available in the following forms:
Apple - Pieces, powder
Apricot - Pieces, slices
Banana - Pieces, slices
Blackberry - Whole, slices, powder
Blackcurrant - Whole, pieces
Blueberry - Whole, slices, powder
Cherry - Pieces, slices, powder
Cranberry - Whole, pieces, slices
Fig - Pieces, slices
Grapefruit (yellow) - Pieces, powder
Grapefruit (pink) - Pieces, powder
Gooseberry - Whole, pieces
Kiwi - Pieces
Lemon - Pieces
Lychees - Pieces
Mango - Pieces
Melon - Pieces
Orange - Pieces, powder
Peach - Pieces, slices, powder
Pear - pieces, powder
Pineapple - pieces, powder
Prune - Pieces
Raspberry - Whole, pieces, powder
Redcurrant - Whole
Strawberry - Whole, pieces, slices, powder
Chaucer Food's also manufactures a number of fruit blends that are very poplar in breakfast cereal applications. Standard fruit blends include the following composite products.
Red fruit blend - Strawberry slices, whole raspberry,
cherry slices
Yellow fruit blend - Peach pieces, apricot slices
Blue fruit blend - Whole blackberry, whole blackcurrant,
blueberry slices
Commitment to innovation
Chaucer Foods is at the forefront in developing new fruit varieties and fruit blends to suit a number of different applications. It has pioneered the development of red, yellow and blue fruit blends that are extensively used in breakfast cereals across the world. Chaucer Foods applications technologists are constantly finding new uses for freeze dried fruits in a wide variety of products that benefit from the high impact, authentic flavour, natural colour and purity and naturalness associated with freeze dried fruit.
High levels of safety and quality
Chaucer Foods has a strong track record for supplying high quality freeze dried fruits to leading multinational food producers.
In addition to normal physical, organoleptic and microbiological testing, Chaucer Food's products are routinely tested for pesticide and heavy metal residues to ensure compliance with EU, US and other national legislation.
All Chaucer Food's products are quality checked and certified at its production centres in China and France.
Control over raw material production
Control over raw material production is a vital activity in the supply chain to ensure high levels of quality and safety and total product traceability.
Chaucer Food's team of agronomists continually work with local growers and processors, laying down standards in areas such as pesticide treatments and water and soil quality.
Chaucer Food's philosophy is that high levels of safety and quality can only be achieved by being involved in all stages of the supply chain.
Global supply capability
With manufacturing bases in China and France, along with production and supply arrangements in the USA, Chaucer Foods has a well-established supply network necessary to achieve high levels of customer service and supply assurance.
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