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C alico Food Ingredients is a leading distributor of quality food ingredients to the
Canadian Food and Beverage manufacturing industries. Offering ingredients that are used in smaller quantity but which have a large impact on your product’s flavour, appearance and nutritional quality, Calico can help you bring your next product to market. Whether you are looking for colours, flavours, vitamin/mineral premixes, or natural preservatives Calico is your source of choice.
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Food Colours
We offer a full range of FD&C Dyes, Lakes and Natural Colours. We can provide custom blends, dispersions, liquid colours and pre-weighed packs to suit our customers’ needs.Nutritional Products
We represent the Wright Group who offer a full range of nutrients including vitamins, minerals, amino acids, botanicals and herbals either individually or as premixes
Savoury Flavours
Fontana Flavours manufactures an extensive line of innovative and custom designed savoury flavours. The line includes meat flavours, dairy flavours, vegetarian meat flavours and vegetable flavours.
Natural Preservatives
Biogard ND B Concentrate, manufactured by Biorgin, is a natural clean label mold inhibitor. This product can be used to inhibit mold growth in a variety of applications.
Extracts & Distillates
Teawolf offers a broad range of products, from their signature tea and wolfberry products, to their line of vanilla and chocolate extracts. They also offer a wide variety of botanical extracts and specialty products.
Glazes & Polishes
Mantrose-Haeuser Co., Inc. is a world leader in edible coatings and specialty products for the pharmaceutical, confectionery and, food industries.
Dough Conditioners
The Wrightmade™ line of ingredients offer highly concentrated, clean label products that can help to lower costs, enhance shelf life and improve crumb texture.
Crackling Candy
Crackling Candy™ is an interactive food designed to provide an effervescent crackling/popping sensation when consumed.
Moisture Reduced Vegetables
White Oaks Frozen Foods focuses on the production of Reduced Moisture Vegetables. Utilizing a combined process of dehydration and freezing they are able to eliminate 30- 50% of the initial moisture of fresh vegetables.