FRUIT PRODUCTS
Peaches
Industry Leader in the Growing, Processing and Production of Fresh Frozen Peaches.
Whether conventional or organic, Wawona grows and processes both Freestone and Clingstone varieties of peaches and offers year-round availability – in many different styles and packs to meet the product needs of customers. In fact, customization is a Wawona specialty. As a family-owned company for three generations, Wawona takes great pride in working closely with customers to fulfill their exact product specs – always with consistent quality and on-time delivery.
After washing, sizing, pitting, peeling and frequent inspections, the golden peach halves move on conveyor belts by professional graders who separate the fruit into Wawona’s four distinct product lines:
- The ripest, highest quality peaches are selected as Signature Sliced Peaches, which are the key ingredient in popular frozen desserts at grocery stores and in a variety of recipes at high-end restaurants
- A large number of peaches head to the blast freezer to be individually quick frozen (IQF) for peach products, blends, yogurts, etc.
- Softer peaches are sliced and designated for ice cream manufacturers
- The overripe fruit is sent to the purée line where Vitamin C and sugar are added
From our Signature Sliced Peaches, to IQF, purées, diced, and fraddies, Wawona peaches are a key ingredient in yogurt parfaits, desserts, salads, drinks, entrées, smoothies, and more. Contact us today to get the ingredients you AND your customers deserve!
Peaches
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Journey of a Wawona Peach
From Field to Freezer
A behind-the-scenes look at how a peach, picked at peak ripeness in California’s fertile San Joaquin Valley, gets from our orchards to your freezer.
The gorgeous blossoms bloom in the spring with clusters of single or double flowering peach petals. Single petal flowering peaches are more likely to bear fruit.
Peach trees are thinned by hand to prevent limb breakage and burden on the tree, increase the size of the remaining fruit, and improve the fruit’s quality and flavor.
At the “Peak of Perfection,” peaches are hand-picked and placed in a canvas pouch. Once the pouch is full, a Wawona team member gently allows the fruit to flow into a large fruit bin, which holds approximately 900 lbs.
The fruit is then transferred to our cold storage facility, where the field heat is removed, and temperature is kept at 34 degrees until the peach is ready to be processed. This cooling process is an important step to allow the fruit to go onto the next step of its life cycle while preventing the ripening process that softens the peach.
The most important part of our process is the freezing process. Most of our products are Individually Quick Frozen, or IQF. Freezing allows us to hit a PAUSE button on Mother Nature and hold in all the fresh flavor and natural nutrients of the peach!
After being frozen, our products are shipped out to all the markets we serve – foodservice, industrial, schools, retail – for use in pies, ice creams, smoothies, and beyond. But most importantly, it is shared so all of you can truly enjoy, “Fruit As It Should Be.”