Freeze-Dried Fruit for Baking and Beverage
For bakeries, cafés, chocolate makers and beverage brands
Make Something Worth Telling Someone About
You know the exact moment a customer falls in love with your creation. It is the widening of their eyes after the first sip, or the way they immediately look at the pastry in their hands to figure out why it tastes so incredibly vibrant.
In a market that expects clean labels and real, whole foods, those moments are not created by artificial extracts. They are built on real ingredients. At Origo Foods, we supply single-ingredient freeze-dried fruit, grown on British Columbia farms we can name. We are simply your partner in the kitchen — providing the pure, unadulterated flavour that helps your hard work shine and keeps your customers walking through the door.
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Why flavour is the differentiator
We Provide the Flavour; You Take the Credit
Today’s consumers are discerning. When someone tries what you made, in that first second, they either notice something or they do not. Most products get a polite nod. A rare few get a pause — that small, wonderful hesitation before someone asks, what is in this? That pause is the true mark of your craft. It is the reason they take a photo, tell a friend, and come back next Tuesday. You cannot market your way to that moment; you have to bake it into the product. Picture your customer tasting a familiar fruit, but with an intensity and brightness they have not experienced since they picked it fresh from a farm. Real fruit tastes like something people already know, so they recognize it instantly — and they notice just as quickly when it is missing. We supply that vibrant, natural whole-food flavour.
The applause belongs entirely to you.
The cost question
Is a Better Ingredient Worth the Extra Cost?
It is a fair question, and it deserves a straight answer. Our fruit costs more than commodity alternatives because freeze-drying is slow and energy-intensive, and it is the part of the process we are not willing to rush. The price also has to work for everyone it passes through — the Fraser Valley farms that grow the fruit, and you. What we ask you to weigh is not just the cost of the ingredient on a spreadsheet, but the value of the experience you are creating. A small difference in ingredient quality is often the exact thing that elevates a one-time purchase into a daily habit for your customer. That is a judgement only you can make, with your own margins in front of you. We would simply rather you test it and see the result than take our word for it.
Where this comes from
A Chicken in Agassiz
Years ago, before our first child was born, my wife Erica and I were walking near Agassiz, British Columbia. We came across a small family farm raising its own chickens. Something about it took us straight back to Taiwan, where we both grew up — the way food sat closer to the ground there, and closer to the people who raised it. They sold frozen whole birds for a bit more than the supermarket. We bought one anyway, thawed it overnight, and made plain chicken soup. Nothing clever, no shortcuts. The kitchen smelled different before we had even tasted anything. And when we did take that first sip, we both stopped. It was the best chicken either of us had eaten in North America. Years later, we still remember it. Whenever the farm had birds, we drove out from Port Moody to Agassiz to buy a dozen at a time. Every friend we shared it with asked the same thing: where did you get this? The farm has since closed, but that feeling — the sheer joy of tasting something real — stayed with us.
What That Taught Us About Ingredients
We did not drive out to that farm for the label, the marketing, or the price. We went back because of how it tasted. A product may cost a little more to make. But when the experience is genuinely better, people notice, they remember, and they go out of their way to have it again. That is the philosophy behind everything we make at Origo Foods. We freeze-dry fruit grown by Canadian farms, draw out almost all of the water, and put nothing back in its place. What reaches your kitchen still tastes exactly like the fruit it came from — giving you the power to recreate that “Agassiz moment” for your own customers.
Applications
Where Nature Meets Craft
Imagine your ideal customer. They read the menu, they value clean labels, and they want to know exactly what is in what they are eating. Our freeze-dried fruit is single-ingredient fruit — nothing added, nothing put back, with almost all of the water drawn out. We provide the unadulterated canvas; you create the masterpiece.
Artisanal Pastry and Baked Goods
Picture a vibrant, naturally marbled crumb that does not bleed during the bake. Because our fruit is very low in water, it releases almost nothing into your batter or dough, so the colour stays where you put it. Fold the pieces in whole for a wholesome, rustic bite, or mill them into a fine powder to achieve stunning, natural colours that make your pastry case irresistible — without ever touching a bottle of artificial dye.
Craft Coffee and Botanical Beverages
Watch a customer’s face light up as they hold a specialty cold brew or a sparkling botanical tonic. Instead of heavy sugars or synthetic syrups, our dry fruit rehydrates naturally in the glass, releasing a clean, bright, plant-forward aroma. It respects the delicate balance of your roast or infusion, offering the refreshing, mindful experience your customers are actively searching for.
Premium Chocolate and Confectionery
Fine cacao requires ingredients of the same calibre. Imagine folding a vibrant raspberry crumb into a ganache. With so little moisture left in the fruit, the risk of seizing or moisture bloom is minimal. You get a sophisticated, true-to-nature flavour profile that perfectly complements the richness of the chocolate, appealing instantly to health-conscious connoisseurs.
Real-Fruit Toppings and Finishing
The final touch matters. Picture an artisanal granola or a crafted yogurt bowl, finished with a vibrant dusting of pure fruit powder. The pieces stay crisp until they are eaten, providing visual proof of real fruit. It is a burst of natural brightness that makes the dish look as incredible as it tastes.
Elevated Savoury and Sauces
Using fruit in savoury applications speaks to a highly refined culinary approach. The natural, sweet-sour acidity of a berry acts much like a vine-ripened tomato. Milled fine, it blends seamlessly into clean-label rubs, plant-based glazes, and house-made sauces, cutting beautifully through wood-fired char and rich, fatty cuts with almost no water coming in with it.
Product Development
Whether you are designing a seasonal launch, a limited-run craft SKU, or reformulating for a cleaner label, finding the right format is crucial. Bring us your vision, and we will help you figure out exactly what works best.
Available Formats: Whole, sliced, crushed, or milled to a fine powder (depending on the fruit), keeping the fruit intact from farm to kitchen.
From our own kitchen
Tested So You Can Trust It
To ensure our ingredients perform exactly the way you need them to, we put them to the test ourselves. We milled our own freeze-dried blueberry and raspberry into a fine powder, worked it into a batter, and photographed the bake from the first mix through to the finished loaf.
The result? Pure colour, intense flavour, and a perfect crumb.
Wholesale packaging
Flexible Supply, Designed for Busy Kitchens
Your time should be spent crafting, not wrestling with packaging. Choose the pack size that fits your volume. Our resealable, foodservice-ready stand-up pouches are built for efficiency on a busy production floor.
Option 1 · Large
Large wholesale pouch
Pouch size
28 cm W × 42 cm H × 15 cm bottom gusset. Resealable stand-up foodservice pouch for full production runs and standing weekly volume.
Approximate capacity
- Freeze-dried sliced strawberryup to 500 g
- Freeze-dried whole raspberryup to 500 g
- Freeze-dried whole blueberryup to 1 kg
- Strawberry bits / crumbsup to 500 g
- Raspberry bits / crumbsup to 500 g
- 80-mesh powder (all three fruits)up to 5 lb
Case pack
Option 2 · Small
Small wholesale pouch
Pouch size
18 cm W × 32 cm H × 9 cm bottom gusset. Same resealable format in a shorter carton depth, for trials, seasonal SKUs, and smaller batch runs.
Approximate capacity
- Freeze-dried sliced strawberryup to 100 g
- Freeze-dried whole raspberryup to 100 g
- Freeze-dried whole blueberryup to 300 g
- Strawberry bits / crumbsup to 100 g
- Raspberry bits / crumbsup to 100 g
- Fruit powder (all three fruits)up to 300 g
Case pack
True Pouch Proportions
How to read these numbers
- Pouch dimensionsFlat bag, cm
- Bottom gussetDepth when standing
- Master cartonOuter box, inches
- Case packPouches per carton
Pouch measurements describe the bag itself. Master-carton measurements describe the shipper it travels in, and are kept in a separate section below so the two are never confused on a purchase order.
Product Formats Available In Both Sizes
Every format below is fully freeze-dried, never fresh or air-dried, and can be supplied in either pouch size.
Slices
Large, crisp freeze-dried slices for bakery toppings, inclusions, decoration, and snacking.
Whole fruit
Whole freeze-dried raspberries and blueberries that hold their shape in cereal, chocolate, and finished desserts.
Bits & crumbs
Smaller freeze-dried pieces for doughs, batters, cereal, confectionery, and flavour inclusions.
Powder
Finely milled freeze-dried fruit for beverages, bakery mixes, seasoning blends, colour, and flavour.
Built For Handling On A Production Floor
In use
- Top openingFull width
- ClosureResealable zipper
- Stands unsupportedOn the 15 cm gusset
- DecantingScoop from the bag
The pouch stands on its own gusset and reseals after opening, so product can be scooped straight from the bag on a prep bench or production line instead of being decanted into a separate container.
Large Versus Small At A Glance
| Specification | Large pouch | Small pouch |
|---|---|---|
| Pouch width | 28 cm | 18 cm |
| Pouch height | 42 cm | 32 cm |
| Bottom gusset | 15 cm | 9 cm |
| Sliced strawberry | up to 500 g | up to 100 g |
| Whole raspberry | up to 500 g | up to 100 g |
| Whole blueberry | up to 1 kg | up to 300 g |
| Bits / crumbs | up to 500 g | up to 100 g |
| Fruit powder | up to 5 lb | up to 300 g |
| Master carton | 16 × 12 × 9 in | 16 × 10 × 6 in |
| Pouches per carton | 3 | 3 |
| Best suited to | Production runs and standing volume | Trials, seasonal SKUs, smaller batches |
All fill weights are approximate “up to” values provided for reference. Actual packed weight varies with fruit variety, piece size, particle size, bulk density, settling, and required headspace. These figures are not guaranteed net weights unless confirmed in writing on your specification sheet.
Master case configuration
Three Pouches Per Master Case
Both wholesale pouch sizes ship three bags per master case, with carton depth optimized for the selected pouch format.
How the pouches are packed
- OrientationLaid flat, not upright
- ArrangementTight overlapping stack
- Count per case3 pouches
- What changes by sizeCarton depth only
The three pouches lie flat in a natural overlapping stack, so the top bag covers most of the bags beneath it. The count is the same for both pouch sizes; only the carton depth changes.
Master-case dimensions describe the outer shipper only and do not indicate product fill weight.
Request Wholesale Specifications
Tell us the fruit, product format, target volume, and application. We will confirm the right pouch size, approximate fill weight, and master-case configuration for your production needs.
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What we hear at shows
What People Ask When They Taste It
We have shared this fruit with industry professionals from Vancouver down to Toronto. When they taste it, the reaction is almost always the same. They pause, look at the fruit, and ask three questions:
“Where are these strawberries from?”
“Are you sure there’s no added sugar?”
“Are you sure there’s no added flavouring?”
Our Original range is single-ingredient fruit. The aroma and the flavour come purely from the fruit itself, which is exactly why people find it hard to believe at first. In a market that deeply values clean labels, we do not want you to just take our word for it. We want you to experience it yourself.
How we work
A Partnership Built on Shared Success
Next step
Let’s Build Something Great Together
Samples are for businesses actively developing or refining a product. Tell us a little about the dream you are working on, and we will get back to you to see how we can help you achieve the perfect result.
How the Sample Works
- Who it is for: Bakeries, cafés, beverage/confectionery brands, and food manufacturers developing or testing a product. (Note: If you are buying for home use, our retail pouches are the best place to start.)
- What you get: One 100 g sample of one fruit, per company. This is enough to run a real bench trial for your upcoming menu.
- What we ask in return: A brief note within 30 days on how the ingredient behaved in your product. Honest feedback is all we ask for.
- Next steps: Freight, timing, and larger quantities are easiest to sort out by email. Tell us what you need, and we will handle the details.
Sample requests are handled case by case. Write to us with what you are working on, and we will confirm the specifics.
