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IQF Fruit, Fruit Juices And Vegetables

12/1/2018

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In the food industry, knowing your IQF, your NFC your Fruit and your Vegetables is key to ensuring you get the quality produce you need for your shop, hotel or restaurant.

At JC Dudley almost all of our vegetables and the majority of our fruit and fruit juices are available IQF (individually quick frozen).
 
Examples of IQF foods are fruits like apricots, loganberries, strawberries, blueberries and peaches and vegetables like peas, carrots, ginger and green beans.

IQF Process Development

The IQF (individually quick frozen) process was developed by mistake!
 Whilst ice fishing in Canada, a biologist realised that when he caught a fish from underneath the ice on this particularly cold day (40-degrees-below-zero) the ice would instantly freeze solid around the fish when he threw them onto the snow. The biggest surprise however, was that some of these fish were still alive after they had thawed...
 
This phenomenon happens because when something freezes quickly, it creates smaller ice crystals than when it freezes slowly. Larger ice crystals damage cells and tissues, but smaller ice crystals do not do the same damage, and so your fruit and vegetable (and meat and fish too), if frozen quickly, will remain as tasty and intact as the moment they were harvested.  
 
The humble pea is renowned in fact for being perfectly formed and still sweet and tasty when defrosted, and it is common place for homes around the UK to have a bag of frozen peas for an almost instant 1 of their 5 a day. In fact, it is far more likely that a household would have IQF peas than they would have freshly picked peas, unless they grow their own of course.
 
In fact, after just 24 hours, peas can become grainy and taste a little bland. Frozen peas, however, are picked and frozen at the peak of ripeness. This stops the process of sugars turning into starch, keeping the fresh picked taste we have all come to love.
 
IQF also means that fruit and vegetable seasonalities are affected in a positive way, and peas are not just for summer!
Frozen peas can retain the fresh picked quality for about 12 months in the freezer (if properly stored), and will usually remain safe to eat long after that time.

The ice-fishing biologist who made this discovery went on to apply this process (now known as IQF) to commercially packaged foods. His name was Clarence Birdseye.

JC Dudley and IQF Fruit, Fruit Juices and Vegetables

At JC Dudley, we can source the very best IQF Fruit, IQF Fruit Juices and IQF Vegetables for your shop, restaurant or hotel, saving you the time of not only sourcing, but of building up those trusted relationships with quality suppliers and vetting them for years. We work with only the very best IQF suppliers, and bring them to your table, already tried, tested and approved.
 
Knowing that our supplies offer high quality, reliability and excellent service level means you can get on with the business you are good at and leave the IQF sourcing to us.  
 
To find out more about our IQF Fruit, Fruit Juices and Vegetables and the other products and services we have on offer, browse our site or contact us.

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Reduce Sugar Intake And Extend Freshness Using Juice Concentrates

5/10/2017

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Juice concentrates are a great way of maintaining the fresh fruit flavour and colour profiles whilst preserving the natural goodness at a lower price than freshly squeezed juice. Juice concentrates can be kept frozen until they are used by adding water, which increases the length of time the concentrate lasts for after purchase and also how long it keeps its freshness.
Juice Concentrates vs. Fresh Juice
Juice concentrates and freshly squeezed juice are similar in regards to some of their nutritional values, such as calorie and sugar content. Both juices offer a source of glucose, fuelling your body with energy.
Although some may say fresh juice contains more vitamin content due to the loss of vitamins through processing that juice concentrate undertakes, the nutrient fortification means that juice concentrates sometimes contains nutrients not found in fresh juices. Nutrient fortification is the addition of vitamins and minerals during the processing stage that the juice concentrate goes through. For example, research shows that a 1 cup serving of apple juice concentrate which has been through the fortification process fulfils the entire daily vitamin C requirement, whereas a 1 cup serving of fresh apple juice contains just 17% of the daily vitamin C requirements.
JC Dudley - Juice Concentrates​
Our juice concentrates contain 100% juice which is another requirement to make sure you maintain the freshness and nutritional value within your drink. Also, if our juice concentrates are frozen for your convenience, they will supply you with a large amount of water to help keep you hydrated throughout the day. Our juice concentrates are fresh and affordable, to ensure your vitamins and nutrients are preserved. We also make sure a little goes a long way and so you can drink our concentrates as and when you may want to.
 
To find out more about our fruit concentrates and the other products we have on offer, browse our site or contact us.
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Millenial Health Kick: A Fruit Puree Start-Up Business Idea

5/10/2017

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​From America to the UK , Millennials appear to be on a growing health kick. It’s more than just appearance, ‘being health conscious also enhances mental and emotional health’.
 
We now have immediate access to so much information about our bodies, with activity trackers such as Fitbit, Apple watch, Misfit, Xiaomi and Moov Now, Millennials are actively adopting new ways to stay fit, focused and adjusted to a truly active lifestyle.
 
However, living a fast paced lifestyle can sometimes result in a life of fast food. This mobile generation of kids on-the-go, need a fast solution to refuel.
 
JC Dudley are presenting you with the perfect opportunity for a new a new business start-up and to be ready with a readily available healthy solution to this refuelling need.
 
Our fruit purees are 100% natural and are processed to maintain as much as possible of the health benefits found in the original fruits namely:
  • The fibre content
  • The nutrients and vitamin profile to include elements like potassium, folate and Vitamin C as well as the naturally occurring sugars
 
Indeed as juice bar franchises are a growing industry, along with the popularity of brands such as Innocent Smoothies, it seems the fruit and fruit puree will be a good base for your startup. However, to standout in the crowd, you will need to differentiate yourself in the market.
 
This is where JC Dudley will allow you to focus on your business idea and will steer you with our expertise.
 
This is the service available to you:

  • You will use a selection of accredited suppliers
  • You will be offered a ‘just in time level of service’ from anywhere in the world so you can plan growth in your business
  • You will be given technical support, logistical support throughout your journey with us
  • You will receive reliable, competitive, innovative and strategic options from more than one origin.

And as your business grows and changes with the tastes and trends, at JC Dudley, our team is here to help you create bespoke products using a wide range of fruit purees from around the world.
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Sustainable Food Procurement Production

15/9/2017

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Are you looking for a food ingredients company that provide you with the ingredients you need for your products?
Do you want to use ingredients that are sustainable, don’t have a devastating impact on the environment and whose growth and harvest can be sustained for the long term?
JC Dudley are a sustainable food procurement company that can help provide you with the sustainable ingredients you need.
 
We are collectively looking at ways to change our food and drink industry to one that is more substantial and sustainable and JC Dudley are looking to play a part in it. The change in climate, the market and spiralling costs have meant that suppliers, like us have started to work even closer with partners at each stage of the supply chain, to ensure that everything is being done to decrease any negative environmental impacts that processes within the industry may have.
 
JC Dudley provides companies with fruit concentrates, fruit purees and powders so that you can develop your products to sell throughout your industry.
We also provide a number of services to businesses once you start selling your products:

  • The team at JC Dudley can help you get your products into the industry marketplace in a considered and cost effective manner. We also provide practical advice about new product development.
 
  • As part of our services we provide logistical support to assist you in delivering your products to their desired locations and in doing so, ensure that the process has as little an impact on the environment as possible.
 
JC Dudley are a sustainable food procurement company that help you obtain the sustainable ingredients you need for your products and then help you with the marketing and logistical aspects of selling your product in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner.
If you would like more information on how JC Dudley can provide you with the sustainable food ingredients you need, contact us today on: 01494 792 839.
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IQF Fruits for the Manufacturing Industry

15/9/2017

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Global weather patterns have affected many fruits and vegetables this year.  We can all remember the newsworthy courgette shortage in Spain due to late snow and frost obliterating the crop and subsequent absence from the supermarkets.  This was only the beginning of difficult growing conditions across Europe, but also in other parts of the world too. 

The worst affected IQF fruits are currently:
  • Strawberry
  • Redcurrant
  • Plum
  • Rhubarb
  • Sour Cherry
  • Sweet Cherry
  • Blackberry
  • Raspberry

With the European apple harvest soon underway, most varieties also seem to be affected which will result in a shorter than normal crop. 
The result has obviously seen price rises for raw material, and subsequent cost increases for the IQF, puree and juice markets. 
JC Dudley are well placed with their network of suppliers to try and source customer IQF Fruit and Vegetable requirements. You can visit the website http://www.jcdudley.co.uk/fruit.html
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JC Dudley, The Fruit Juice Company & Food Ingredient Supplier

7/8/2017

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So you are looking for a fruit juice company, you want to develop a range of fresh fruit juices for your clients and want to find a company that can help you achieve your goals?

JC Dudley are a food ingredients supplier and fruit juice company that can help you do just that.

Our Fruit Juice Company

We work closely with all our clients at every part of the supply chain. This ensures they receive the information they need to effectively market the products they receive from us, whether they are fruit juices, fruit powders or purees.

We work with companies from manufacturing, retail and the food service sectors of the food and drink industry.

What Services Do JC Dudley, Fruit Juice Company Offer Companies?

We provide you with practical advice for marketing to international and national processors and we help by advising partners on how to take new products to the marketplace, assisting them with market development and penetration.

We provide advice for NPD colleagues and provide them with access to representative samples & data sheets, this helps them with quick turnarounds.

We have a team that provide technical support to our business partners, and our team also provide logistical support. This helps our partners optimise the supply chain and also minimise the financial and environmental costs.

We provide our partners with sensible, competitive and strategic options whilst ensuring that the quality is never compromised.

We have people that support your sales and purchasing departments and will dedicate their time to solving problems in practical and efficient ways.

If you would like more information on JC Dudley, or are interested in the services we offer, contact us today. Call JC Dudley on: 01494 792 875 or fill out our contact form.
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Food Sourcing Company Assisting Your Food & Drink Products

7/8/2017

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Are you in the food and drink industry, are you looking for a food sourcing company that can provide you with the food ingredients you need?

JC Dudley can help you obtain the fruit ingredients you are looking for.

Food Sourcing Company

As a food sourcing company, we help companies obtain the ingredients they need for their food and drink products. We also help companies market their products and break into different sectors, providing a wide range of support and advice to both you and your customers.

From providing market development support and new product development, technical support and logistical support to giving our clients strategic options and resources and assistance in the sales and purchasing departments of your business, our team are dedicated to supporting your ingredient and food products within the industries you are looking to connect with and help you expand and develop your business.

At JC Dudley, we ensure continuity and the timely supply of food ingredients and services through our constant management and working more closely with our business partners through each level of the supply chain. This helps us to meet and overcome the challenges that invariably appear with a fast developing market, climate change and volatility in costs for all sorts of reasons.

If you would like more information about our food sourcing company and how we could provide you with the food ingredients you need for your products as well as helping you in developing them, contact us today. 

Call 01494 792 839 or email us at: sales@jcdudley.co.uk.

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What does a Fruit Concentrate Supplier do?

17/7/2017

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When your business needs a fruit juice supplier, there are many reputable companies to choose from in the UK. Which one you should choose will depend on your needs and what sort of product you are producing for market.

Most suppliers, such as JC Dudley will provide juice concentrates in the form of fruit or vegetable juices, syrups and purée for you to use in your own production processes, whether that be as an ingredient within a finished product such as a drink range, baby food, ice-cream range, confectionery items or for topical use in the cosmetics industry.

Juice Concentrate Production

The specialist processing machinery and processes used within our plant mean we can offer either a juice concentrate as a cost-effective bulk product for businesses to use within our own manufacturing system, or offer a finished product in-house on your behalf.

Many juice concentrate suppliers are equipped to provide finished products that are ready for market and that will include bottling and labelling facilities on site. This can be a very cost-effective way for a new company to test the market with a new product as well as trial new flavours and ranges with small test-runs and analysing results before committing to a major roll-out.

We can offer concentrates and juices from different sources, so if your chosen source should be UK grown fruit, or you prefer more exotic flavours from overseas, we will be able to assist you with this as we have our own established sources from around the world.

Other fruit or vegetable based products

Even if your business doesn't directly use fruit and vegetable juice concentrates, we can offer alternative fruit or vegetable based products such as canned whole fruit and vegetable production.

The increasing popularity of the consumption of sauces and condiments have seen some juice manufacturers diversify their production line to produce things like Guacamole, chilli pepper mash and other savoury pastes and purée's for an ever-hungry market of consumers.

Concentrates such as this are not just for use in the food and drink industry. For centuries we have used raw fruit and vegetables extracts to not only add flavour, but to also add fibre, texture and pleasant aromas to a whole range of cleaning, health and cosmetic products.

If you are thinking of starting a business where sourcing fruit and vegetable concentrates would be involved, then it is worth contacting us directly on 01494 792839 to discuss your needs and to see if we can assist you with your new product development ideas and trial production runs.
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UK Fruit Concentrate Suppliers

17/7/2017

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There is an ever-growing demand for the use of fruit-based ingredients in today's food market.  Food and drinks labelled as being 100% fruit in particular has seen a rapid growth in demand from health conscious consumers across the world. 

Juice concentrates that are used as ingredients in many food and drink products offer a way to deliver all the health benefits associated with consuming a diet that is rich in fruits and vegetables while at the same time being a clean and convenient way for food and drink producers to source ingredients without having to be involved in the manufacturing process themselves.

Consumers choose to eat fruit as a healthy snack and to drink fruit juice for their health benefits. For the most part people understand the health benefit of getting their 'five-a-day' but would rather not have to go through the process of carrying, messy peeling, and the clean-up of fresh fruit each day. This is especially true of the busy working population who want something quick and convenient to eat or drink on the run or to take to work with them.

Food and drink manufacturers looking to create new formulations that meet with the demands from consumers for cleaner label products with limited and more natural ingredients, such as whole fruit purées and juices, can be confident that they can deliver with the help of a fruit concentrate supplier, such as JC Dudley.

JC Dudley is able to provide manufacturers with juice concentrates that are made with natural ingredients, are nutrient rich, and can be uniquely formulated to meet with a whole range of demands. This means incorporating fruit and vegetable juice concentrates into brand new, deliciously healthy products that can deliver high value and quality throughout the food and drink industry.

Food and drink manufacturers can also benefit from buying a concentrated product that does not go off in a few short days like fresh fruit does. Instead they can get a robust, shelf-stable, convenient source of concentrate that provides excellent taste, texture, natural goodness and real health benefits.

JC Dudley, Fruit concentrate supplier, can deliver a whole range of different concentrates, real-fruit purées and natural fruit juices for various industries and applications. New processing techniques also mean that producers can reduce sugar levels in juice concentrates without decreasing the sweetness or changing the flavour of their products.

No matter what food or drink product you have in mind, there will be a concentrate or purée available that can be specially designed to meet your needs.

If you would like more information about JC Dudley and the fruit concentrates we provide as a fruit concentrate supplier, contact us today on: 01494 792875 or fill in our contact form.
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UK based Fruit Juice Supplier

9/6/2017

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As a reputable fruit juice supplier based in the UK we think that it’s important to be in a position to offer our clients the very best fruit and vegetable ingredients to create the most unique fruit juices. 
 
What we can offer you
As we’re a family business that was established way back in the 1980’s, we have the experience to be able to offer you a varied range of cost effective ingredients and finished products. 
Our hard working team here at JC Dudley is always striving to be able to offer you more services including new supplier development, technical support, market development and much more!
 
Type of companies we have worked with

We have provided finished products to many companies within the retail, food and manufacturing industry sectors both covering the UK and across the pond! 
 
We also offer canned fruit products. These ingredients include: 

  • Apricot
  • Bitter Orange
  • Blood Orange
  • Grapefruit Pink & White
  • Lemon
  • Lime
  • Mandarin
  • Sweet Orange
 
Our Miscellaneous product range has also grown over the years, now including some not so common ingredients such as:

  • Caperberries (Available in all grades, acidified and in brine)
  • Chilli Pepper Mash
  • Locust Bean Gum
  • Guacamole and other avocado products

 
Want to get in touch with us to discuss what makes us the ideal choice as your UK based fruit juice supplier? 

Call our team today on 01494 792839 or email us at sales@jcdudley.co.uk to begin your food ingredient sourcing journey with us. 
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