Capabilities

Think of HQO when you need bulk natural or organic: herbs and spices, botanicals and IQF ingredients! Our product capabilities serve the culinary and botanical industies in industrial, food service, and the retail trade. Our clients range from family businesses to publicly traded corporations. Our products are used in hundreds of organic brands ranging from sauces and dressings to herbal teas and nutraceutical supplements. Ultimately, if it can be done conventionally, we can do it naturally and organically.

We have the capacity and expertise to fulfill your special requirements including:

• Packaging
• Distribution
• Flavor profiling
• Formulations and blends
• Custom milling, blending and roasting

Your custom recipes and packaging belong exclusively to you.

We honor your trust with something you can count on: the iron-clad protection of our confidentiality agreement and non-disclosure guarantee.

100% Natural and Organic Herbs and Spices Supply and Reliability

• We’re expanding our grower community and inventory to support your growth for all-natural and organic products.
• We provide certificates of analysis for each lot to insure the highest quality standards for bulk herbs and spices.
• We have process and blend capabilities to meet customer specifications.
• We can match your pack size to support batch processing and minimize waste.

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Product Capabilities

Using only high quality 100% natural and organic herbs, spices and ingredients, we can:

• Match specifications: Powders, grinds, sized, whole
• Create custom specifications
• Develop formulations including: Blends, Dips, Sauces, Gravies, Marinades, and Custom formulations
• Profile Flavors: When you need to target a specific flavor — from apple pie to hot dogs — we can maximize your target profile with consistency. Our staff formulator and developer works with food science to achieve the most reliable flavors in the industry.
• Blends: Choose from our library of standard blends or customize your own. Seasonings, rubs and glazes for meats, poultry, fish and vegetarian meat alternatives. Sauces, Gravies, Barbeque, Condiments and traditional ethnic blends including Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Thai, and Indian.

From Field to Freezer IQF (Individually Quick Frozen) Ingredients

• HQO is one of the leading suppliers of certified organic frozen ingredients, offering IQF fruits and vegetables, frozen chilies and tomatillos, and fruit juice concentrates. We’re among the industry leaders working to make more organic frozen ingredients available by helping to develop new sources and products. Our current development work is focused on increasing our offerings of Mexican-grown frozen fruit, vegetables, and chilies.
• Our clients can purchase full containers shipped directly to their plants, or we can ship pallet quantities from our East- or West-Coast cold-storage warehouses.
• If there’s an organic ingredient you’d like to purchase frozen and you don’t see it on our product list, please call us to request it.