Guides for Buyers of Canned Food
Cut styles, brix bands, pack formats, harvest windows and foreign-matter control, written from the way this factory actually runs rather than from a marketing brochure.
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How to Choose a Canned Mushroom Cut Style
Whole, sliced, cut, strip and pieces and stems all come off the same mushroom. Which one you order changes labour, yield and how the product looks on a plate.
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Canned Fruit in Syrup Water or Juice and What Brix Means
Three packing mediums and three brix bands decide how sweet a can of fruit is. Getting the choice wrong is the most common reason a fruit listing fails in a new market.
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Canned Food Pack Sizes for Retail and Catering
A reference to the tin and jar formats we run, how many go in a carton, and which format belongs on a supermarket shelf rather than in a kitchen.
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Planning Canned Food Orders Around the Harvest Season
Canned produce is made when the crop is picked, not when the order arrives. These are the windows that decide whether your container ships this year or next.
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How Foreign Matter Is Kept Out of a Can
Metal detection, sterilisation and double X-ray scanning are the three steps that stand between a raw mushroom and a recall on a private-label brand.
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A Private Label Canned Food Buyer Checklist
Eight things to settle with a cannery before you sign a private-label order, drawn from the questions buyers actually ask before a first shipment.
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Who are these guides written for?
Importers, private-label buyers, foodservice distributors and food manufacturers deciding what to order from a Chinese cannery.
Do the guides use your own production data?
Yes. Pack formats, cut styles, brix bands and harvest windows in these guides are the ones we actually run.
Can I get these as a document?
The catalogue, pack format reference and private-label checklist are all available from the download centre as PDFs.
Still Not Sure Which Specification to Order
Send the importing country and the product data and we will tell you what we would recommend and why.