Soft-N-Frozen™
Bursting with Natural Flavor
The Soft-N-Frozen™ process produces frozen fruit that is bursting with natural flavor. These ingredients bring rich, natural fruit flavors to a wide variety of consumer products, including ice cream, frozen yogurt, fresh and frozen baked goods and other frozen dairy and non-dairy products.
Graceland's innovative Soft-N-Frozen™ process combines Grade A fruit with sugars and a natural stabilizing system, which binds and controls the free water in fruit pieces, inhibiting ice crystal formation. The result is a fruit ingredient that will not completely freeze, remaining scoopable, while retaining fruit piece identity and natural color. Graceland offers three lines of Soft-N-Frozen™ ingredients that can be customized:
- Stabilized - contains 50% - 80% fruit in a stabilized matrix
- Premium - typically contains 85% fruit suspended in an infusion matrix of 15% or less
- Infused Frozen - contains up to 100% fruit
Unlike IQF fruits, these fruits can be added directly to consumer products with minimal thawing. The Soft-N-Frozen™ process preserves the integrity and character of delicate fruits, plus the pasteurization process ensures very low microbe counts.
| Piece* | Product | Sizes | Infused | Premium | Stabilized | |
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Apples |
Diced |
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Blueberries |
Cultivated |
Whole |
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Wild |
Whole |
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Cherries |
Dark Sweet |
Whole |
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Tart |
Halved |
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Maraschino |
Whole |
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Cranberries |
Sliced |
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Lemon Peel |
Bits |
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Mandarin Oranges |
Pieces |
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Mangoes |
Strip Cut, Diced |
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Peaches |
Diced |
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Raspberries |
Red |
Whole |
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Seedless |
Liquid |
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Strawberries |
Whole |
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Sliced |
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Spec sheets are available in PDF format.
