Calamansi: An Exotic New Specialty As A Fine Ingredient For Foods And Beverages

Calamansi is creating new trends when it comes to taste and sustainability.

Tropextrakt, importer of exotic fruit and niche products, now offers an additional specialty to the food and beverage industry: The calamansi is a particularly small type of citrus fruit that thrives in tropical regions, with a long culinary tradition there. The pure juice of the calamansi is suitable for refining a range of foods and beverages, from various drinks and dairy products to ice cream and sauces. The Frankfurt company obtains the fruit juice in NFC quality directly from its supplier in Vietnam.

The calamansi is one of the most exciting new discoveries that tropextrakt has in store for its customers in the coming year. Although it sounds like an exotic, unknown fruit right now, it has the potential to start a new taste trend in foods and beverages that can already be seen in the USA, for example. The calamansi, with its scientific name of “Citrofortunella microcarpa”, conceals powerful potential under its delicate peel with a great variety of flavors: sweet-sour and refreshing, it is reminiscent of mandarin orange, bitter orange, lime and pink grapefruit.