Custom Solutions
Custom Solutions Made Easy
Van Drunen Farms offers you choice, variety, and total customization of our fruit, vegetable, herb, and grain-based ingredients for your next innovative application. Our ingredients appeal to the demands of the modern consumer, allowing you to create clean-label, nutritious, flavorful, and on-the-go finished products.
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What stands between you and your next product innovation? Don’t let your own processing constraints limit your potential. With various ingredient solutions and custom blends designed to fit your application needs, as well as contract drying and packaging capabilities, we make it easier to turn your idea into your brand’s next success. We provide a variety of services to custom fit our ingredients to your specific processing goals, making it easier to help you create the nutritious, one-of-a-kind concept you are envisioning.
Snack-to-Pack® Freeze-Dried Snack Solutions
Transform your brand’s snack aspirations into a reality. From start to finish, Snack-to-Pack® gives you the tools to bring your functional snack ideas to life. Our team of experts helps alleviate common product development challenges and adds value to your brand through custom solutions such as functional snack branding ideation, formulation development and packaging support – all in one place. Ready to begin your Snack-to-Pack® formulation experience?
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Contract Drying
We understand the challenges you face when bringing a new product to market. That’s where our expertise comes in. You supply the raw ingredients and we perform our value-add processing.
We deliver partnership, flexibility and turnkey solutions that make it easy to meet your unique needs, saving you time and resources.
Our custom contract manufacturing capabilities allow you to extend your development efforts, empowering you to create and deliver your product to the shelf more efficiently. Using any of the following forms and ingredients, we can create something unique to your brand:
- Fresh
- Frozen
- Liquids/Purees
- Juice/Juice Concentrates
- Fibers
- Fermented Ingredients
- Grains
Freeze-Drying Drum-Drying IQF
Blending
We have experience blending multiple food ingredients with specific ratios. Your unique blend can also include these value-added services:
New Product Development
Our team of experts is equipped to work with you to develop your new product so that it meets your specifications. Our in-house expertise includes organoleptic testing, complete QA and QC capabilities and a microbiology laboratory.
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Technology & Equipment Resources
We offer a variety of resources that make it easier to create your finished product. You know where you want to go; our technology and equipment can help you get there.
- On-site pilot drying
- Cooking (steam-jacketed/jet)
- Freezing (IQF, cryogenic, block)
- Grinding, dicing, pureeing
- Coating (oil, seasonings)
- Packaging (bag in box, totes, retail pouches)
