What’s New?
Here is an update from some of our suppliers:
IDF
Bedemco
Dickinson Frozen Foods
Borregaard
Confoco
Dole
Dongsheng
Golden Peanut
International Dehydrated Foods (IDF)
IDF (International Dehydrated Foods, Inc.) is a world leader in the development, processing, and distribution of natural meat and poultry-based food ingredients that include spray-dried meat and poultry powders, chicken fat powders, broth powders, powdered combinations of chicken broth and fat, 32% (37 Brix) frozen chicken broth, and shelf-stable liquid chicken fat.
They are excited to introduce five new items to our line up of "Natural" products, a Premium Chicken Broth, two Powdered Beef Broths, a Powdered Beef Fat, and a powdered Beef Fat and Broth combination. In addition to our exceptional base broths, IDF now offers a Premium Chicken Broth (Item No. 3813), a rich, concentrated, base that has been processed to maximize mouth-feel and chicken flavor. Their two new IDF Powdered Beef Broths offer two distinct profiles: you can choose a "fine" tan powder (Item No. 5402) with light roasted notes, or an agglomerated version (Item No. 5403) with an intense/strong roasted note in a rich brown powder form. The new IDF Powdered Beef Fat (Item No. 5761) offers a rich cream color, smooth mouth feel, and light roasted beef notes. The new IDF Powdered Beef Fat and Broth (Item No. 5760) has a rich bold flavor with a smooth mouth-feel.
The meat and poultry products from IDF are the preferred choice of food companies focused on providing the consumer with food that truly tastes good. IDF products offer the most flavorful, cost-effective formulations for seasoning blends, flavors, bouillon, soups, sauces, gravies, marinades, batters, breading, stuffing mixes, and snacks.
Bedemco
Bedemco has the dried fruit, nuts, seeds, and dried vegetables that you need for your company’s inventory. And now Bedemco processes dried fruit and nuts to your specification at our new production facility at Hudson Valley Farms. Learn more at their preview Web site: thehudsonvalleyfarms.com.
Their wide variety of inventory includes:
Medium flame variety raisins. Jumbo and ex. Jumbo flames are in stock and readily available, as always.
Cheriraisins - a Bedemco exclusive - colorful, unique, and tasty. Ask your sales representative for a sample.
Macadamia nuts - sweet in taste and sweeter in price. Bedemco has sizes to fit your production needs including Styles #4 and #5.
Prunes - all sizes in stock; A pitted and with pits.
Sweetened cultivated blueberries and tart cherries.
Slow roasted tomatoes: a unique product that is oven-dried and stored in oil in the style of tomato confit.
Dickinson Frozen Foods
IQF Onions Warehoused Locally
Dickinson Frozen Foods is the premier IQF onion supplier in the United States. DFF offers both diced: 1/4", 3/8", 1/2", 3/4", and 1" and strip: 3/8", 1/2", 3/4", and 1" by random. You can take the award-winning NorSun’s signature roasted and IQF potatoes and combine them with the IQF vegetables, creating a unique item for you and your customers. Dickinson can blend up to eight different items into numerous packaging options, from a 4 oz bag to a 1300 lb industrial tote. Make your soup instantly ready with a trinity blend of onions, green peppers, and celery. Making a pizza? Try the onion, green and red pepper mix for a quick and easy application. Contact Tisdale for samples, contracts, pricing, and more.
Borregaard
Atis Yeast Extracts in DFW Warehouse
Borregaard has a variety of Atis yeast extracts which are available for local warehousing in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
Yeast extract intensifies flavor, enhances the savory notes giving a full rounded flavor to foods, snack foods, seasonings, sauces, marinades and soups.
Confoco USA
With Fall Around the Corner, It’s Time to Think About Pumpkin Pie
Confoco USA has an entire product line of pumpkin products: Aseptic
Puree, Flakes and Powders. The puree made by reconstituting pumpkin flakes with water has the color, odor and flavor of mashed cooked pumpkin. The flakes reconstituted 1:9 with water are used in the same traditional uses as cooked pumpkin, suitable for vegetable preparations, cakes, muffins, pies, bread, baby food and soft food diets. Find Confoco’s pumpkin pie recipe on our Website. Contact Tisdale for samples, pricing, and brochures.
Dole / Dole Frozen Packaged Foods
2007 Pineapple Crop in Short Supply
Dole reports that the pineapple crop indicators and other factors are teaming up to make 2007 one of the toughest supply years in the pineapple market. The Thai summer crop is predicted to be 40% below that of 2006. This is due to a lack of rainfall and diversion of the planting areas for sugar. Farmers went 115 days without rainfall in the autumn of 2006 only to be flooded by torrential rains during the winter months. Unfortunately, demand for pineapple increased concurrently with Maui’s exit from the market.
Dole is also forecasting that 2008 will be a tight pineapple crop year also. Tisdale advises contacting them with your pineapple needs as soon as possible.
Don’t forget about the other fruits that Dole Frozen Foods offer —Peaches, IQF Pineapple, Apricots, Frozen Banana, and more. Contact Tisdale for samples, spec sheets, and product brochures.
Dongsheng Foods USA
Dongsheng Foods Join Tisdale
Dongsheng Foods USA joins the distinguished group of suppliers represented by Tisdale Food Ingredients. The primary product is Chinese garlic, which is available dehydrated, IQF/frozen and fresh as well as shelf stable garlic in water products.
Since the company was established in 1978, Shandong Dongsheng Food has grown into one of the largest privately held garlic/vegetable manufacturers in China. Dongsheng Food is a vertically integrated company managing the entire supply chain from “seeds to finished products.” By focusing on raw material management and the GMP and HACCP programs in their manufacturing facilities, Dongsheng provides customers with greater assurance of product reliability and supply continuity. Their dedication to research and development enables them to offer innovative solutions to customers’ ingredient needs.
Golden Peanut Company
Refined Peanut Oil Offers Culinary Advantages
Refined peanut oil has a long list of attributes: Trans fat free, cholesterol free, allergen free, pleasant flavor, high smoke point, non-GMO, liquid at room temperature, and no flavor carryover.
With health and nutrition such a big issue in the food industry, the good news is that peanut oil is naturally high in healthy fat and low in bad saturated fat. Nutrition studies indicate that peanut oil lowers total and bad LDL cholesterol similar to that of olive oil.
Refined peanut oil applications include snack food and fast foods frying, sauté cooking oil, salad dressing, and for use in peanut butters and peanut butter variegates.
Here’s the skinny on refined peanut oil:
Trans Fat Free: Refined peanut oil is trans fat free and low in saturated fats making it one of the healthiest oils available. A diet containing peanut oil, which is low in saturated fat and high in monounsaturated fat, has shown to decrease heart disease risk.
Popular frying oil: Refined peanut oil has a high smoke point of 450 F, which makes it perfect for frying applications. In addition, peanut oil has very little flavor carryover. This allows the same frying oil to be used for several different food products with little to no carryover of flavor from other foods.
Excellent stability: Peanut oil is very durable at a range of frying temperatures, including very high temperatures, unlike other oils. In many cases peanut oil is less prone to oxidation than other vegetable oils in frying applications.
Pleasant flavor profile: Refined peanut oil has been the oil of choice for frying for numerous restaurants for many years. Its clean, light nutty flavor works well to bring out the natural flavors of fried foods without masking them with the flavor of the oil. Its pleasant light flavor works well in many food oil applications.
Allergen free: there have been numerous studies conducted in the U.S. and abroad, showing that individuals who are allergic to peanuts do not have reactions to refined peanut oil. Refined peanut oil is different from crude/aromatic peanut oil because it has gone through extensive processing, so that the protein that causes the allergic reaction has been removed.
Golden Peanut Company has refined peanut oil in addition to roasted aromatic peanut oils, peanut extract and their full line of partially defatted peanut flours. Contact Tisdale Food Ingredients for product brochures, samples, and any other information.
