Food Ingredients
Quadra offers a broad range of high-quality food ingredients and specialty products and services, expert technical application support, and strong market knowledge.
Food Ingredients
Quadra’s Nutritional and Functional Food Ingredients Group offers a broad range of high quality food ingredients, specialty products & services, expert technical application support, and strong market knowledge. Using our creativity and experience in developing new concepts as well as healthy alternatives, we can help you successfully introduce unique products to the marketplace. From bench to shelf, partner with Quadra to create your next winning product!
- Custom Blending & Copacking
- Concept Formulation
- Technical Expertise & Advice
- R&D Support
- High Quality Ingredients
- Regulatory Expertise
Our Technical Expertise
Unsure which ingredient is the right one for your specific application? Quadra’s experienced team can help! We have a wide range of quality food ingredients and the technical expertise to help your formulate successfully.
- Cheese & Fermented Milk Cultures
- Cocoa Blends
- Colours & Flavours – including Natural Colours such as Annatto, Red Beet, Tumeric
- Dry Blends
- Dairy & Egg Ingredients
- Dairy Enzymes
- Emulsifiers & Stabilizers
- Fibres
- Fruits & Vegetables
- Functional Ingredients
- Gluten Free Ingredients – Specialty Flours and Starches
- Gums & Hydrocolloids – Guar, Cellulose, Xanthan Gums
- Inclusions, Crisps, Toppings
- Lactose
- Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCT Oil)
- Non-GMO Ingredients
- Organic Ingredients
- Phosphates
- Polyols
- Preservatives
- Proteins
- Pulse Fibres, Flours, Grits
- Seeds & Grains
- Sodium Reduction
- Starches & Flours
- Sweeteners & Sugar Replacers
- Vitamin Premixes
- Yeast Extracts
Industry Partners
We are proud to partner with some of the world’s best food ingredient manufacturers! Our exclusive distribution ensures the very best in technical support from the product manufacturers. Some of our key partnerships are with great companies like these:
Budenheim – Beneo – Lactalis (Parmalat) – Tate & Lyle – Edlong – Glanbia – DDW – MGP – IFF – Tastepoint by IFF – Biospringer – DSM – TreeTop – Dupont
KMC – Fiberstar – Cereal Ingredients – Manitoba Starch Products – Perth County Ingredients – Ideal Foods – Lucid Colloids – Nexira – Nouryon – Omya
Gnosis Lesaffre – JB Cocoa – Avena Foods – Creafill – Domino Sugar – Silva
Subindustries / Market Segments
Technical Services and Innovation
Our diverse Technical Team has extensive experience and expertise in Bakery, Dairy, Processed Foods, and Snacks applications. From concept to finished product we work with you on formula development and sensory evaluation, from pilot to plant trial we can assist to ensure you receive the finished product you desire.
Custom Solutions
Quadra’s state of the art dry blending facilities can manufacture a wide variety of ingredient blends in batch sizes ranging from 100kgs to 1000kgs. We also offer a wide variety of packaging options ranging from 1kg to 800kgs. Strict quality control measures are in place to ensure you receive a consistent finished product batch after batch.
Bakery
Quadra understands the bakery sector is constantly evolving and increasingly challenging. We are an industry leader in sourcing quality innovative ingredients from around the world. We can help by providing quality ingredients, technical expertise and outstanding personalized service.
Bars & Cereals
With the growing market trend of convenience foods, and ‘food to go’, this is a very dynamic market
segment. Canadians are not just looking for convenience, they are looking for ingredients which provide
a nutritional benefit as well.
Beverages
The beverage industry today is all about innovation and delivering nutrition ‘on the go’. Consumers are looking for beverages that help them get to achieve the nutrition they are looking for in a fast and efficient delivery system.
Blenders
Quadra partners with our customers to help create innovative new blends by offering innovative ingredients which provide the best functionality and nutritional benefits.
Confectionery
Our experienced team will work with you to formulate innovative products in this sweet sector. We offer ingredients for hard candies, gummies, chocolate, novelties and more.
Dairy
Quadra provides a wide range of ingredients to deliver nutritional and functional benefits to your dairy products. We have a full range of starches (Rice, Corn, Wheat, Potato, Tapioca) to help you achieve the texture that you are looking for.
Meat & Poultry & Seafood
Our focus is to provide you with innovative ingredients to help you to achieve your finished product
goals. We offer a full range of ingredients that allow you to enhance texture, improve yield, replace fat,
reduce costs and improve the shelf life of your finished products.
Pet Nutrition
Quadra offers a broad range of high quality nutritional ingredients to support the health and well-being of furry or feathered friends.
Prepared Foods
Quadra helps with innovative ways to improve your product lines – whether it’s soups, sauces, batters,
mixes, marinades or ready meals we offer ingredients to meet current market trends and provide healthy
options.
Sports Nutrition
At Quadra we have a great toolbox of ingredients to create sports nutrition products with benefits. We have a full line of proteins: Dairy-Based (WPI & WPC, MPI & MPC), soy, rice, pea, wheat and more. We carry a range of functional ingredients offering a specific health benefit: heart health, immune health, or cognitive health.
Water Treatment
Quadra offers an extensive array of products for various industrial and municipal markets. Our industry-
specific coverage connects us to virtually all areas of treatment demand. And our strong supplier
relationships ensure that the most effective options are offered.
