Fruit powders are dry ingredients used to add fruit flavor and other desired characteristics to food and beverage products. Fruit powders are produced from real fruit juice through spray drying. This makes fruit powder easier to ship, store, scale and incorporate into commercial formulations than liquid fruit juice.

Bluegrass Ingredients makes its fruit powders through a process called spray drying. During this process, fruit juice is introduced into heated air as fine droplets. Moisture evaporates rapidly, leaving a dry powder that retains the desired fruit flavor characteristics. Bluegrass Ingredients uses spray-drying and blending capabilities to produce fruit juice powders with consistent flavors and performance.

Fruit powders provide several benefits to food and beverage manufacturers:

• Consistent fruit flavor
• Clean label formulation
• Customizable flavor intensity
• Lower moisture than liquid juice
• Shelf-stable storage without refrigeration
• Reduced shipping and storage requirements
• Longer shelf life than liquid juice
• Easier scaling
• Year-round access to fruit flavors

Fruit powders reduce shipping and storage requirements compared with liquid juice because the water has been removed, and therefore, manufacturers are not paying to ship and store water

Our fruit powders are designed to support clean-label product development. They contain no added colors and are vegan, gluten-free and certified kosher.