Plant ingredients, engineered to perform.
For over 40 years we've been turning fruits, vegetables and plants into natural and organic ingredients and snacks. Each one is tailored to keep its texture, flavour and nutrition right where your product needs it.
Most product headaches start small.
Pieces that bleed, sink or turn hard.
Fruit looks great on the bench. After baking, it can come out dry and dark, with colour seeping into the crumb.
Flavour that fades.
Heat is tough on fruit. Many aroma compounds and vitamins, like vitamin C, are heat-sensitive, so each heating step can take a little away.
Moisture on the move.
Water slowly travels from wetter ingredients to drier ones. That's how crunchy turns soggy and soft turns hard over time.
This is where we come in. Tell us what your product needs, and we'll tailor the ingredient around it.
What we tailor for.
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One platform, eight formats.
Tell us how your line runs, and we'll shape the ingredient to fit.
Snack-ready, straight from the pack.
We don't only make ingredients. Our chewy fruit and vegetable snacks are ready to enjoy as they are, no further processing needed.
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Health benefits, naturally delivered.
We use fruit and vegetable bases to carry vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and other actives, so they can be enjoyed as a tasty snack instead of another supplement.
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With you from first idea to launch.
Certified, audited, and 40+ years in the making.
We also follow SEDEX and SMETA ethical trade principles, and every product is fully traceable through our quality system.
The next best thing, made available.
We're Esmetar, a pioneer of plant-based, natural and organic food ingredients and snacks in Türkiye. We love a tricky texture problem, a stubborn shelf-life question, and a fruit that tastes like it should.
Got a product idea? Let's make it work.
Send us a short brief. Our R&D team will get back to you with next steps.
Solutions, organised by what they do.
Seven product families, from ingredients for your recipe to finished chews for your shelf. Clean label by design: built on real fruits and vegetables, with ingredient lists kept as short and recognisable as each product allows.
Eight formats, one platform.
Select a format to see which families offer it.
Product photography: Esmetar.
Fruit & vegetable chews, ready when you are.
Soft, chewy snacks made from fresh, natural and organic fruits and vegetables. Ready to enjoy as they are.
Real fruit, nothing to hide.
Here's what's on the label, and what isn't.
Why are they chewy?
When water is gently taken out of fruit, its natural sugars and fibres, like pectin, become more concentrated. That's what gives the soft, chewy bite.
Less free water (lower water activity) also makes it harder for microbes to grow, which helps the chews stay stable on the shelf.
Fruit paired with a cacao or coconut layer.
FruitsBuilt for the way your category works.
Pick your category to see the challenges we solve and the ingredients that solve them.
What goes wrong, and how we answer it.
Bring us a challenge. We like those.
Our marketing and technical team works side by side with your marketing, NPD and R&D teams, from the first idea to the launch.
Five things that help us help you.
- The product you are making and where it sells
- The outcome you need: texture, stability, flavour or nutrition
- How it is processed: baked, frozen, extruded, coated
- Label goals: organic, clean label, claims you want to make
- Your timeline and expected launch volumes
Project-specific, not off-the-shelf.
Each solution is shaped to your recipe, your line and your positioning.
Fits your line, or ready to use.
Ingredients slot into your existing process, or arrive as a finished product.
Thematic and seasonal blends.
Limited editions and seasonal ranges for distinctive shelf presence.
Quality you can check.
BRC food safety, organic (EU, USDA and TR) and kosher certified, with full traceability built into every step.
From field to dispatch.
Every batch is traceable through our quality system, supporting global compliance in every market we ship to.
SEDEX and SMETA aligned.
Responsible employment, safe workplaces and ethical business practices, independently audited.
Sustainability built in.
Natural and organic raw materials, gentle processing, and a real commitment to transparency.
Tested in-house.
Our own physical, chemical and microbiological labs keep a close eye on quality.
The next best thing, made available.
We started out selling dried fruit and sun-dried tomatoes. Over 40+ years, that grew into a food-tech company that develops and scales up fruit and vegetable ingredients. Still curious, still learning, still innovating and still leading.
From dried fruit to food tech.
Every frame is a chapter. Take a walk through our story.
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No. 01 Year Where it began
Esmetar started out selling dried fruit and sun-dried tomatoes.
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No. 02 Year From trading to processing
From selling produce to processing it ourselves.
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No. 03 Year A home in Turgutlu
Roots in the Aegean, one of Türkiye's major fruit-growing regions.
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No. 04 Year Certified and traceable
Food safety, organic and kosher certifications.
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No. 05 Year The first chewy pieces
Fruit and vegetable pieces made to perform in someone else's product.
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No. 06 Year Science at scale
In-house labs and pilot lines turn new ideas into repeatable, scaled-up processes.
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No. 07 Year Finished chews and functional nutrition
From ingredient supplier to ready-to-eat snacks and functional blends.
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Today
No. 08 Today Turning craft into science®
A food-tech company built on 40+ years of knowing fruit.
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Map data: Natural Earth (public domain). For exact directions, open Google Maps.
Our home in the Aegean.
Selvilitepe Mah. 1453 Cad. No:19
Organised Industrial Zone, Turgutlu / Manisa, Türkiye
About 50 km east of İzmir. Visits by appointment.
Start a project.
Tell us about your product. Our R&D team will reply with next steps.
info@esmetar.com.tr
For projects, samples and general questions.
Turgutlu OIZ, Manisa
Türkiye. Visits to our facility are by appointment.