Supplier Spotlight: Seawind Foods Functional Fruit Purée Dice

100% fruit content, bake-stable options, no artificial preservatives or colors

Seawind Foods has been a trusted producer and distributor of all-natural dehydrated fruits, vegetables, and spices since 1987, and they are proud to announce the addition of 100% functional fruit purée dice to their product line. Read More

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New Supplier Announcement: Sunrise Fresh Dried Fruits

The premier supplier of Unsweetened, No Preservative, No Added Sugar dried fruits in the country

Burley is proud to announce the addition of Sunrise Fresh dried fruits as our newest supplier partner. As their direct representative, we look forward to introducing and reviewing their line with you. Just give us a call at (952) 943-1970.

Sunrise Fresh dried fruits are 100% natural and unsweetened. The fruit is picked at the height of freshness and dried quickly after being harvested, ensuring maximum flavor and nutrition.Sunrise Fresh’s unique drying and processing methods allow for a better tasting, longer lasting and more nutritious dried fruit.

The production methods and close contacts with growers up and down the West Coast allow Sunrise Fresh to provide their customers with a consistent level of quality and supply products year-round. They can tailor orders based on size, quantity, dicing, piecing and lower-moisture fruit. Read More

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New Supplier Announcement: Robertet Savory Extracts and Flavors


offering the widest ranges of savory extracts and flavors worldwide

Burley is proud to announce the addition of Robertet savory extracts and flavors as our newest supplier partner. As their direct representative, we look forward to introducing and reviewing their line with you. Just give us a call at (952) 943-1970.

Robertet offers a savory product line that includes spice oleoresins, natural colors, essential oils, garlic & onion extracts, compound and reaction flavors, organic offerings and rosemary based antioxidants.

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Supplier Spotlight: DairyChem Vegan Dairy Flavors for Cheeses, Butter & Fat


Vegan Dairy Flavors for Cheeses, Butter & Fat

DairyChem may not sound like a company that would provide vegan dairy solutions, but vegan options are one of their biggest growth markets. They receive requests for vegan cheeses, butter and fat replacement systems 3:1 over dairy. DairyChem’s vegan product line sales have doubled each of the past 2 years. Read More

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Spotlight: The Burley Blender Development Hub

Culinary Driven Science for Product & Concept Development

The Burley Blender is a development hub offered as a service to our customers. Our chefs, Mark Chura and Jeff Baker, have a culinary-driven approach that is mixed with the science and technology from over 30 suppliers. We track trends through continuous qualitative research. And we blend our wide variety of ingredient solutions, fast answers and quick turn-around to become a reliable extension of your benchtop and R&D team. Read More

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Supplier Spotlight: E. Formella


authentic Italian specialties

E. Formella & Sons, Inc. has grown over the past 100 years to become a global company that prides itself on offering a wide variety of authentic Italian specialties as well as other unique and distinctive gourmet foods. Read More

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Supplier Spotlight: KAGOME


sweet & savory plant-based butter alternatives

Kagome is leading the way with plant-based butter alternatives, and it’s not surprising. They have evolved over the past 100 years and are producing sauces using the basic approach of collaborating with growers, partners, and customers. Today Kagome’s purpose is to create and drive culinary trends from seed to table. Read More

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Supplier Spotlight: Food Basics

“Co-Developed” Custom Sauce Concentrates, Purees, Sauces, and Dry Seasonings

Food Basics is the custom food ingredient division of Yost Foods. Their “co-development” approach allows customers to achieve the lowest cost solution. Popular custom ingredient categories are:

• Bases and Concentrates
• Purees
• Dry Seasonings
• Finished Sauces
• Snack Seasonings

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Supplier Spotlight: Bascom Maple Farms

a healthy sweetener alternative for snacks and other categories

The advantages of using maple syrup as a sweetener are highlighted in a Food Processing article (Old-Fashioned Nutritive Sweeteners Are On The Rise, August 24, 2022). “Maple syrup is another classic, age-old sweetener that finds applications in modern processed food. A 2019 study prepared for the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets noted that maple syrup is finding its way into innovative processed foods such as carbonated beverages, condiments, dressings and yogurts. Read More

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Supplier Spotlight: Seawind Foods

Gluten-Free, Grain-Free, and Low-Carb Flour Replacements

Seawind Foods is creating a wide variety of ways to use vegetable and fruit products to create new, gluten-free products that don’t sacrifice on flavor or nutrition. Two of their most effective solutions are Green Banana Flour and Cauliflower Powder. Read More

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