At Florida Food Products, we provide our customers with nature’s finest ingredients to help them deliver the clean label products today’s consumers demand.
From juice extraction to concentration, fermentation, membrane filtration, drying, blending, standardization, and packaging, Florida Food Products operates a highly flexible, multi-faceted production facility. Every step of our processes adheres to strict SQF Level 2 requirements, ensuring the safest, highest quality ingredients.
Supply Chain
Our natural ingredients are carefully sourced from grower partners that we know and trust. Raw material inconsistencies and availability can create challenges with ingredient quality and reliability of supply, so we leverage our long-term, domestic grower relationships to provide our customers with uniform, in-spec ingredients throughout the year.
Procurement
FFP has decades of expertise in, and has spent significant time and capital optimizing, the global procurement of plant-based, natural / clean label inputs.
- Secured year-round access to vegetables with redundant sources of supply
- Longstanding, often contractual, relationships with growers of celery, beets, onions, carrots, and cucumbers, geographically dispersed throughout the Americas
| Raw Material | Long-term Contracts | Years Sourcing Raw Material | Direct Sourcing from Growers | Access to Greater Supply |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celery | • | 30 Years | • | • |
| Carrot | • | 35 Years | • | • |
| Cherry | • | 15 Years | • | • |
| Beet | • | 27 Years | • | • |
| Onion | 27 Years | • | • | |
| Cucumber | 23 Years | • | • |
Gentle Processing
After careful sourcing, raw materials are processed in our U.S. facilities. Here, our state of the art vacuum belt drying systems preserve product color and flavor better than traditional high-temperature drying systems, ensuring a higher quality end product.
Added Value Processing Capabilities
Extraction
- In-house juicing capabilities
- Allows broad access to fresh crops
Concentration
- Highly efficient high and low temperature evaporation capability
Fermentation
- Expertise in fermentation process for a variety of base materials
- Batch-to-batch finished product consistency
Separation
- Various separation technologies for clarification, concentrating, and removal of target components
Vacuum Belt Drying
- Superior flavor, color & nutrient retention
- No carrier required
Dry & Liquid Blending & Packing
- Custom blending with various concentration levels and particle size capabilities
Quality Control and Regulatory Requirements
Our quality control team has decades of food processing experience and is trained to meet the growing number of regulatory requirements our customers must meet, including:
- The SQF Institute
- Quality Certification Services
- Kosher
- Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)
- Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP)
- USDA Organic certification
- Non-GMO Project Verified
