Authentic coffee taste
Kerry’s end-to-end coffee expertise enables us to select high quality beans, create customised roasting profiles and use our proprietary extraction and concentration process to deliver a consistent coffee experience in food and beverage applications. The coffee extracts, flavours and coffee concentrates in our SimplyNature coffee line include a variety of taste-led solutions.
Our coffee ingredient range includes:
- Cold brew and hot brew coffee extracts
- Aromatic coffee extracts
- Natural coffee flavourings
- Coffee flavourings
Key benefits
Working with Kerry gives you access to a variety of high-quality coffee solutions and products including:
- Robusta and arabica extracts
- Shelf-stable and refrigerated ingredients
- Liquid and powder formats
- Organic, Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance Certified products
- Single origin products from Columbia, Peru, Mexico, Sumatra and Ethiopia
- A wide range of organoleptic profiles, from roasted, smoked and nutty to fruity, floral and cocoa notes
- Our Coffee Centre of Excellence in Portland, Maine, USA is a zero-waste landfill
Empowering Women through Café Femenino
Kerry is the exclusive extraction partner of Café Femenino, an advocacy program and ethical sourcing model committed to ending the cycle of poverty affecting women coffee farmers across the world. Together, we help deliver high quality fair trade organic coffee extracts to food and beverage brands while improving the lives of women coffee producers.
Through the formation of all-women farming programs based inside coffee cooperatives in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Sumatra and Rwanda, Café Femenino empowers women to create their own products and income.
Local programmes help member women farmers:- Receive direct payments and payment premiums
- Assume leadership such as through co-op voting and boards
- Secure rights to the land they farm
- Produce Fair Trade Certified™ and organic certified coffee
Green coffee extract
Our green coffee extract is a natural source of caffeine. Kerry research from 2019 demonstrated a higher consumer demand for products that support energy. To fulfill this demand, our RD&A, sensory and analytical scientists teamed up to create a powdered green coffee extract which is obtained from 100% unroasted coffee beans and is a naturally occurring source of caffeine. Unlike our other coffee extracts, which are often primarily developed for taste, this newly developed green coffee extract has a standardised level of caffeine and can be used across a wide variety of wet and dry applications to deliver natural caffeine with subtle earthy and herbal flavors.
The coffee story
Coffee is said to have been discovered by a goat herder who noticed his goats became extremely energetic after eating certain berries. While coffee is native to Ethiopia and Sudan, the earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking appears in 15th century Sufi shrines of southern Arabia, now Yemen. This marks the first-time coffee seeds were known to be roasted and brewed in a manner similar to how coffee is currently prepared and consumed. Today, coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide, with more two billion cups consumed every day.