Citrus Ingredients for Food and Beverage Manufacturers

Yes. Send us your current specification — or simply a sample of what you buy now — and our technical team will reverse-match Brix, drained weight (D.W.), pulp content, viscosity, acidity and dice size, then produce a trial batch for your own sensory panel. Most specifications are matched within one development round. Working with the Agricultural Product Processing R&D Center at Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, we regularly match competitor samples for beverage, dairy and bakery customers who are changing supplier. The point is that switching to us should not change your finished product.

Combined annual capacity is 50,000 metric tonnes across two plants: Jinming in Quzhou, Zhejiang (citrus business established 1986, company established 2006) and our sister plant Jinyiwang (2026). Four automated processing lines imported from Spain run citrus sacs, NFC and concentrated juice, purée, jam and peel products. Because we run two plants with redundant lines, a volume increase does not push you to the back of the queue — we plan capacity annually with contract customers, so your forecast volume is reserved before the season starts. Send us a 12-month forecast and we will tell you what we can commit to.

It depends on your process, not on our catalogue. As a guide: for beverages and RTD tea, citrus sacs and NFC juice give visible fruit and a clean label; for dairy and ice cream, purée and sacs in frozen or aseptic format stay stable through freezing; for bakery and confectionery, candied peel, dried peel dice and peel strips hold their shape at high temperature; for coffee and specialty drinks, jam and purée dissolve without residue. Tell us your process — temperature, pH, target shelf life — and we will recommend the format and pack size instead of asking you to pick from a list.

Yes. Our technical team, led by PhD-level food scientists, takes a product from brief to pilot run. We work across orange, mandarin and tangerine, YUZU, Huyou, lemon, red grapefruit, white and pink pomelo, seedless Baba mandarin and strawberry, and we can blend citrus with other fruit bases. Pilot runs start from 1 tonne, so you can validate a new SKU in your market without committing to a full container. Development is covered by confidentiality. This is ODM work in the strict sense: you bring the brief, we build the formula, and the recipe stays yours.

Every lot passes three gates. IQC on incoming fruit — variety, maturity, pesticide residue and heavy metals. IPQC at each process step — Brix, pH, acidity, temperature and metal detection. And 100% FQC on finished goods before release. Each batch carries its own traceability code and ships with a COA. Our plants operate ISO 22000 and HACCP systems, are HALAL certified, hold China's SC food production licence, and are audited by SGS.

Yes. Each batch code links back to the intake lot, the grower base, the production line and the shift. If a claim is raised we can pull the complete record — intake test results, in-process checks, the retained sample and the loading record — and share it with you. Recall-ready documentation is kept for every shipment, so your own traceability audit has files to read rather than a promise to believe.

Citrus is a harvested crop, so raw fruit cost moves with the season — we do not pretend otherwise. What we do instead is quote with a stated validity window and work from your written forecast, so you can plan your own pricing instead of being repriced mid-programme. For annual contracts we agree volume bands and a review mechanism before the season begins. We also tell you the harvest outlook up front: our own YUZU picking window runs 20–25 October.

Packaging and private label are a core part of our OEM and ODM service. Standard formats include 18 kg tin cans for sacs and purée, aseptic bags in drums for juice and purée, frozen blocks and IQF bags for frozen products, and retail-ready packs. We support private label end to end — pack size, artwork design, label copy, barcodes and the regulatory wording your market requires. Packaging can be matched to your existing filling line so you do not have to retool.

For stock specifications, production and loading typically take 15–25 working days after deposit and artwork confirmation. Custom formulations add development time, which we confirm in writing before you place the order. We ship from Ningbo and Shanghai, with cold-chain and frozen container options for heat-sensitive products. Full container load and consolidated loading are both available, and we can work with your nominated forwarder or arrange one.

Every shipment travels with a batch COA, commercial invoice, packing list, bill of lading, health certificate and certificate of origin. On request we issue allergen statements, GMO-free statements, HALAL certificates, and pesticide residue and heavy metal test reports. Where a local authority requires it — for example Iran, where the health authority asks for the COA on company letterhead — we print and stamp the COA accordingly. Tell us your destination and we will confirm the exact document set before you order.