Citrus specialty

Citrus

Natural extracts: our citrus ranges

Lionel Hitchen is proud to produce the world's finest citrus oils for food and beverage applications.

As a specialist manufacturer of citrus oils, their expertise in a variety of distillation and extraction techniques has been developed over more than half a century.

By applying these skills to the highest quality oils, Lionel Hitchen is able to develop concentrated citrus oils of the highest quality.

Lionel Hitchen sources citrus oils from all over the world, working with their long-standing supply partners to ensure the highest quality and reliability of supply.

Lionel Hitchen also offers specific citrus varieties, such as lemon citron, clementine and blood orange, to give your products a point of difference and an element of sophistication.

These varieties are then converted into specialty products, to carefully capture the authentic flavor profile in a convenient-to-use concentrated form. If you're looking for a quality citrus oil manufacturer, please don't hesitate to contact us.

The different citrus ranges

  • Citrus Oils: Large quantities of citrus oils from all over the world are purchased for the manufacture of various specialties. The range includes : Clementine, Blood Orange, Mandarin, Lemon and Lime.
  • Citrusspecialties: These products are highly versatile and widely used in all flavor applications. To facilitate your choice from this range, several collections are available depending on your application and preferred flavor profile:
    • The HiFresh range: offers a colorless, whole-fruit rind and juice character with an authentic fresh-fruit taste.
    • The HiPer range: characterized by excellent solubility, photostability and intense, authentic flavor, with little color and insoluble residues.
    • The HiSpec range: features high solubility thanks to a low monoterpene content, offering a rich, intense flavour.
  • Citrus extracts : Ideal for incorporation into beverages and other applications requiring authentic water-soluble flavours, this range is the result of aqueous ethanolic extraction of oil-based extracts.
  • Halal Flavour Range: In a global context where the demand for Halal-certified or Halal-compatible food and beverage products is constantly growing, this range of Halal flavours has been specially designed to meet this growing need. It offers a complete solution for professionals in the food and beverage industry.

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Accreditations and certifications

Lionel Hitchen Limited's policy is to provide a professional and responsive service to all its customers at all times and to supply safe and legal products and services that meet the highest standards of performance, reliability and specified quality.

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All these products are suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

Lionel Hitchen applies a strict policy of excluding nuts and sesame seeds from their facilities to give their customers the assurance of allergen control.