An appetite for high-impact flavor and culinary adventure is fueling consumer food choices—a trend expected to continue unabated. Nothing kick-starts a product's profile like a burst of chile flavor. Now, Gilroy Foods—a world leader in vegetable and garlic ingredients—extends its range of value-added products to the most extensive selection of chile ingredients in the industry. Whether you're looking for frozen purées or functional flavors, fruity aromas or feisty spice, when genuine chile character is your goal, go to Gilroy Foods.

A Focus on Flavor

America's passion for peppers has finally matured. Consumers now appreciate the unique flavor "fingerprint" that individual chile varietals bring to the table. Sweet, smoky, herbal, woodsy. The possibilities are as plentiful as the peppers themselves.

Gilroy Foods takes the guesswork out of navigating this chile landscape. From scouting out safe and consistent pepper supplies to characterizing and cataloging their flavors, we've cracked the chile code so you don't have to. If you're targeting a popular chile profile, our staff of food technologists and culinarians can sharpen your aim.

Chiles, Made Easy

Whether you're formulating a new line of fruit salsas or livening up a menu standard, Gilroy Foods chile ingredients make the task that much easier. You're already familiar with our custom and drop-in seasoning blends and turnkey flavor systems, as well as our groundbreaking GardenFrost® Purées and Controlled Moisture™ (CM) Vegetables. Now take a look at how we've applied these platforms to revolutionizing chiles:

Controlled Moisture Vegetables

• CM freezing technology reduces chiles' water content, concentrating nutrients, flavor, color and overall appeal.
• CM chiles are available roasted, to give your application another dimension of flavor.
• Higher solids mean less syneresis, improving quality in frozen and microwavable products.

GardenFrost Purées

• Softfrozen technology captures intensely fresh chile color and flavor in brilliant purées.
• Purées are scoopable from the freezer and thaw four times faster than hard-frozen for quick and easy staging.
• Low sodium and clean ingredients contribute to a consumer-friendly label.

Seasoning Blends

• We'll customize your blend to deliver the chile profile of your choice.
• Fully functional seasoning systems integrate chiles with flavors, salt, seasonings, starches and other functional ingredients.
• We're experienced in blending for topical, internal, high-temperature and other applications.

Chile Flavors

• Knowledge of the chemical basis of chile flavor lets us tailor systems to your precise flavor objective.
• Delivery methods include water- or oil-soluble forms, oleoresins and spice extractives and natural or artificial options.
• Our flavor chemists work onsite, ensuring consistency, quality oversight and rapid execution of requests.

Dehydrated

• Whether you need a "bite" or just a hint of color, we can provide particle size, color and Scoville to fit the bill.
• Selected varieties of capsicum are harvested, washed, dried and milled to a range of sizes.
• Available in Paprika, chile pepper, chile powder, red pepper, jalapeño.

Oleoresins

• Delivers uniform color without particulates.
• Oleoresins are extracted from high-color varieties of capsicum for superior color and flavor stability.
• Oil-soluble paprika, water-miscible paprika.

With such a varied and versatile ingredient lineup, there's no application that can't benefit from a jolt of chile excitement. And you'll only find it at Gilroy Foods.

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The Wide World of Chiles, Demystified
Experts estimate the existence of more than 3,000 members of the Capsicum genus. Of those, an untold number are becoming ever more popular with mainstream consumers.

According to the USDA, Americans’ chile use has increased 37% in the last decade alone.

For more information on Gilroy Chiles (PDF)