Business & Sourcing

Understanding Açaí qualities: purée, solids, sorbet and the right applications for bowls, smoothies, foodservice, beverages and industrial food products. Açaí is one of the most exciting tropical fruit ingredients for the food and foodservice industry. Demand for bowls, smoothies, sorbets, functional beverages and modern health-oriented concepts continues to grow. At the same time, Açaí is more complex to evaluate than many other fruits. Açaí is not a standardized one-size-fi

Fruit purée, concentrate or combination – a practical guide for industrial food applications. Tropical fruit ingredients can be used in many different product forms: as fruit purée, polpa, concentrate, sorbet base or foodservice solution. For purchasing, product development and quality management teams, the key question is therefore not only which fruit is interesting, but above all: Which product form fits the specific application? A fruit purée is not automatically better t

Fruit purées and concentrates evaluated through sensory analysis, specification and application testing for the food industry. Evaluating fruit purées and concentrates: what really matters Tropical fruit ingredients are often evaluated first by taste, colour and origin. For industrial applications, however, sensory evaluation alone is not enough. Whether a fruit purée or concentrate is truly suitable for an application only becomes clear when sensory profile, product specific

Frozen tropical fruit ingredients in practical portions: aromatic, natural and versatile for industrial food applications. Tropical fruit ingredients are becoming increasingly important in the food and beverage industry. They bring intense flavours, natural colours and authentic origin stories into modern product concepts – from smoothies, juices and functional beverages to ice cream, sorbets, dairy, desserts, plant-based products and foodservice applications. At the same tim

Container operations at the Port of Pecém: New cold chain infrastructure and the Mercosur-EFTA trade agreement boost export opportunities for cashew nuts and fruit purées from Ceará to Europe. Ceará is currently experiencing a phase of strong forward momentum. Two recent developments are creating ideal conditions to bring high-quality products from Northeast Brazil to the European market more successfully and sustainably than ever before: The opening of a new refrigerated ter

A significant step towards expanding Brazilian quality products into Europe Eurobras at the Ministry of Economic Development in Ceará: Together with Vicente Ferrer (Executive Secretary for Trade, Services, and Innovation) and Flávio Themotheo (Head of the Department for Business Development and Promotion), strategies were developed to expand Brazilian exports to Europe. Eurobras had the great honor of being received at the Ministry of Economic Development (SDE) of the Stat