Universal Ingredients

Transforming food and beverage experiences with delicious, plant-based ingredients

Inspiring Flavor & Wellness

Whether you’re looking to innovate or improve your flavor profile, our selection of Universal Ingredients companies can find a solution for you.

Universal Ingredients supplies a broad range of high-quality, customizable, plant-based specialty ingredients for both human and pet consumption. 

Universal Leaf Tobacco is the leading supplier of leaf tobacco with over 100 years of experience sourcing and processing crops to meet customers’ exact specifications. 

In addition to our traditional leaf tobacco business, we continue to expand our offerings to include additional value-added services and products.

FruitSmart is a premium source of high-quality fruit and vegetable-based juices and ingredients, in addition to an array of other fruit and vegetable processes.

Shank’s Extracts manufactures extracts, flavors, and food colorings, in addition to providing packaging solutions to commercial and private label markets.
Silva International is a natural, specialty dehydrated vegetable, fruit and herb processing company, and specializes in processing natural raw materials into custom designed dehydrated vegetable- and fruit- based ingredients for a variety of end products.