In touch with nature

Kanegrade supply high quality natural ingredients at competitive prices and deliver them to your manufacturing facility on time, every time. At Kanegrade we’re proud to have done exactly that since 1980, ensuring our customers have smooth production runs and category leading finished products.
Today Kanegrade encompasses facilities in several countries and with over 60 members of staff across production contracting, sourcing, QA, NPD and logistics. We’ve built strong partnerships with growers and primary processors around the world, giving you access to ingredients from every corner of the globe.
We can recommend ingredients to match your enquiry and we also create bespoke ingredients to meet project aims such as adapting mouthfeel, optimising cost or enhancing nutrition. Our diverse ingredients catalogue spans many parts of your bill of materials, meaning you can choose Kanegrade to reduce your number of suppliers.

Our team of food scientists are on hand to answer questions about shelf life, stability, particle size, organic status, acidity level, extraction process, dietary consideration or any one of hundreds of criteria which are relevant to our ingredients and your finished product.
Kanegrade holds thousands of ingredients in stock ensuring constant availability and just in time delivery when required. Our network of storage facilities and distribution expertise mean you get ingredients transported to your manufacturing site (on the Incoterms of your choice) exactly when you specify, ready for production.

Fruit powders
Kanegrade is proud to produce a wide range of Fruit Powders. They are used in hundreds of applications including plant based foods, confectionery, sauces, protein mixes, fillings and many more. Consumer interest in plant based products is at an all time high with many people choosing a plant based diet. The main reasons being it can be better for your health, it can assist in losing weight, it is a good diet variation, it’s good for the environment and it can save you money. A plant based diet is usually made up of foods which come from plants, which includes fruit powders.
These are fine, normally highly soluble powders with long shelf life, making them ideal for use in food manufacturing.

Spray-dried fruit powders
Spray-drying can be used to create a powder from fruit juice. The juice is normally concentrated and pasteurised, mixed with a carrier to ensure stable drying and then fed into the spray-dryer. The mixture is then pumped through a tiny nozzle and into a heated chamber with a vortex of hot air. This causes rapid evaporation of the water in the mixture, resulting in the fruit powder to be collected at the outlet.

Roller / Drum / Belt-dried fruit powders
The most basic type of fruit powder. In this process fruit is passed along a set of rollers through a heated chamber (Roller-Drier), tumbled in a heated drum chamber (Drum-drier) or passed along a belt conveyor through a heated chamber (Belt-drier). This high-temperature process removes as much of the water as possible, and then the dehydrated fruits are milled/ ground/ crushed into a fine powder.

Vacuum-dried fruit powders
This is a more specialist way of producing a fruit powder, which avoids exposure to high-temperature. The fruit are dried in a similar way to the roller/ belt/ drum, however as a batch process in a sealed vacuum-chamber. The vacuum lowers the boiling point of water to around 30°C, meaning a lower temperature is required to evaporate the water from the fruit. The resulting fruit can then be milled/ ground/ crushed into a powder. This is suited to temperature-sensitive fruits, and whilst more expensive, it’s less harsh on the fruit preserving more flavour.

Freeze-dried fruit powders
Freeze-drying is a batch process, which takes place in a sealed chamber. The fruit is frozen and then the pressure is gradually reduced, which makes the water in the fruit jump directly from the solid phase (ice) straight to the gas phase (vapour). This is a process known as ‘sublimation’. The water vapour is free to leave the fruit, resulting in highly dehydrated fruit with the integrity fully maintained. As before this fruit can then be milled/ ground / crushed into a powder. This is an expensive process resulting in the highest price fruit powder but arguably most preserved.

How to choose?
Each fruit has a particular process from each of the above which suits it the most and is most commonly used. This decision is based on a blend of reasons including: feasibility of manufacture, cost, quality of final product required. To find out which process from above is used for the fruit powder you need, then please enquire.
Note: not all fruit powders are pure fruit solids, many have carriers so consist of a proportion of fruit solids along with a proportion of carrier. The carrier can have multiple roles including: maintaining shelf life, facilitating use in application, anti-caking. Carriers are processing aids and therefore do not have to be declared on labels (EU Law).

Our range contains over 30 fruits with our most popular being the following:
Lemon Powder
Lime Powder
Orange Powder
Apple Powder
Raspberry Powder

Other fruit powders Kanegrade can offer are:
Acerola Powder Apricot Powder
Banana Powder Bilberry Powder
Blackcurrant Powder Blueberry Powder
Boysenberry Powder Cherry Sweet / Sour Powder
Cranberry Powder Damson Powder
Date Powder Elderberry Powder
Fig Powder Gooseberry Powder
Grapefruit Powder Guava Powder
Kiwi Powder Lingonberry Powder
Lychee Powder Mandarin Powder
Mango Powder Melon Powder
Papaya Powder Passionfruit Powder
Peach Powder Pear Powder
Pineapple Powder Plum Powder
Pomegranate Powder Quince Powder
Red Grape Powder Redcurrant Powder
Strawberry Powder Tamarind Powder
White Grape Powder

Colours
At Kanegrade we develop natural colours that help food look its most delicious.
Colour lost during processing must be boosted, or in applications such as confectionery, colour should be introduced to maximise flavour perception.
Factors such as pH, heat and light exposure and legality in your market must be considered before an effective natural colour is selected.
This means it’s crucial to select a natural colour partner with extensive manufacturing, legal and application expertise.

Nature’s colours
Our food colours are created from the vibrant and diverse material found in nature. Colours range from yellow, to orange, to red, to green, to purple, as well as black and white.
Dosage can be adjusted to create unique shades, and we also create custom blends to achieve your ideal colour tone.

The extracts
Pigments are extracted and standardised such as:
Chlorophyll (Green)
Anthocyanin (Purple)
Curcumin (Yellow)
Capsanthin (Orange/Red)
Betanin (Red).
In fact we work with over 15 different natural pigments with E-numbers which are legally recognised as safe and effective food colourants.

Colouring foods
We have created a full range of ‘clean label’ colouring foods with intrinsic colouring ability, but without E-numbers.
Typically these are vegetable and fruit-derived, such as Beetroot Liquid and Spinach Powder which are simply declared as an ingredient on your label.

Your application
Each colour is matched with an application system which ensures colour is retained throughout any processing and for the full shelf life of the end product.
We’ve developed solutions for all types of application including plant based products, beverage, confectionery, bakery, dairy, meat, ice cream, sauces and many more. Our technologists are ready for your next application challenge.

Unique products
Many of our natural colours are used by those who want to stop using artificial colours and we can give full technical advice on your changeover. We have also developed products such as a carmine replacer and an alternative to titanium dioxide.

Personal service
Kanegrade has been developing and supplying natural colour solutions for food, beverage and pharma applications for over 40 years. We will work with your Product Developers to ensure the colour you want is achieved.

Kanegrade

Suppliers of high quality natural ingredients for over 40 years

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