Onion Concentrate: The Unlimited Solution
How do you create more taste with fewer ingredients? If this is your top priority challenge to solve, Umami Onion Concentrate is a multi-functional and clean-label ingredient that boosts the overall flavour profile of your food. Eliminate e-numbers, and elevate taste. Read on to find out how.
TECHNICAL PAPER FROM GOURMET INGREDIENTS.

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Netherlands
ACTIVE CATEGORIES
MAKE BETTER-UNDERSTOOD FOOD
Established in 1951 by the Broersen family, Gourmet is a grower of onions, shallots, and garlic for three generations. With Gourmet Ingredients we put the brightest minds from the ingredients and food industry together to unlock the versatile and potent compounds of our allium plants in the form of natural additives. They come as concentrates, powders, essential oils, and purées. We help you develop clean-label food for the health-conscious consumers of tomorrow. Good for the plates, good for the planet.
FUNCTIONAL INGREDIENTS FOR SOLUTIONS IN TASTE, COLOUR, SWEETNESS & TEXTURE
Add depth and flavour to savoury dishes, boost appealing looks with natural colours, reduce sugar content or create the perfect mouthfeel. Our products are clean for both label and production. While you can save on cutting, cooking and waste, here are more benefits:
- Durable, saving storage space and easy to use in production
- Free from allergen, free from soya and low microbiology risk
- Consistency in taste as well as availability - all year round
- All natural with no chemical processing
- Powders with low sugar content and low risk of clumping
- Highly efficient with low cost-in-use
APPLICABLE FOR A BROAD RANGE OF FOOD PRODUCTS
From high-quality ready meals like Tikka Massala to tantalizing meatballs or crusty Hash Browns. You can use our natural ingredients for many applications to help you put your product on the shortlist for both labels and minds.
- Ready meals
- Meat products
- Baked goods
- Vegetarian products
- Soups & Sauces
- Spices
A WORLD WHERE WE UNDERSTAND FOOD, NOT JUST EAT IT.
We see a future where food powers the body and mind without the extensive use of synthetic additives. A future where we move closer to nature in both what we make and how we make it. Where we indulge without compromising on taste, quality or nutrition. A future where labels do not read like laundry lists and we know what goes in to it. A future where every choice we make is one: natural. By extracting the power of nature for food and ingredients. Rooted in allium fields for generations. That's how we grow.

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