Pink pitaya has moved from smoothie bars onto mainstream café menus, bakery counters and packaged foods. As it has, more European businesses have started looking for a dependable source of pink pitaya powder in professional quantities rather than retail packs.
Pink pitaya, or red dragon fruit (Selenicereus costaricensis), is valued for its vivid magenta colour and mild fruity taste. Buying it for production is a different job from buying it for a home kitchen: volume, documentation, batch consistency, storage and delivery all come into play. This article sets out how The Organic Labs supplies bulk pink pitaya powder to professional buyers across Europe.
Who Buys Pink Pitaya Powder in Bulk?
Professional demand comes from several directions:
- Cafés, coffee shops, smoothie and juice bars making pink lattes, iced drinks, smoothies and pitaya bowls
- Bubble tea businesses using pitaya in milk teas and fruit drinks
- Bakeries and pastry kitchens colouring frostings, creams, fillings, doughnuts and decorations
- Ice cream and gelato makers producing pink gelato, sorbet and frozen desserts
- Food and beverage manufacturers developing coloured products at industrial scale
- Distributors and wholesalers supplying pink pitaya to their own trade customers
Each group buys differently. A single café may work through one drum over a season, while a manufacturer plans tonnes against a production forecast. A good supply arrangement fits the way you actually use the ingredient.
Bulk Formats and Volumes
The Organic Labs supplies pink pitaya powder in 25 kg drums, and every volume is built from that unit:
- 25 kg: one drum, for cafés, bakeries and product developers testing pink pitaya on the menu
- 50 kg: two drums, for bakeries, dessert brands and café groups with steady sales
- 100 kg: four drums, for HoReCa groups and beverage producers using pink pitaya year round
- 500 kg: a full pallet of 20 × 25 kg drums, for food manufacturers, ice cream producers and distributors
- 1,000 kg and above: tonnes on a call-off schedule, for industrial production, private label and wholesale supply
The minimum order is one 25 kg drum. Prices depend on volume, destination and how often you order, so each quote is prepared individually and confirms price, dispatch date and documentation.
Capacity for Recurring Supply
When pink pitaya becomes a permanent part of a product range, continuity matters as much as the first delivery. The Organic Labs has a supply capacity of 60 tonnes per month, confirmed with your order.
Finished stock is held in Sweden, and supply is planned with partners across the season. For recurring or multi-tonne volumes, production can be reserved against your forecast and delivered on a call-off schedule, so your line never waits for a harvest. Volume can be committed in writing before you build it into your production plan.
Stocked and Shipped From Sweden
Buying a tropical fruit ingredient directly from growing countries usually means handling international freight, customs clearance and long supply chains yourself. Sourcing from a supplier inside Europe takes much of that work off your desk.
Pink pitaya powder from The Organic Labs is stocked and shipped from Sweden and delivered to businesses in the EU and EEA, straight from the warehouse to your door.
Quality and Documentation
Professional buyers usually need paperwork before an ingredient is approved. The Organic Labs works under an ISO 22000 food safety management system with HACCP-based procedures implemented, and is a registered food facility in the Swedish sanitary registry.
The documents available for pink pitaya powder are:
- A certificate of analysis (COA), issued per batch with the batch number you receive
- A technical data sheet (TDS) with the full product specification for your technical file
- An ingredient and allergen declaration: single ingredient, declared for your labelling
For confidentiality, certificates and technical documents are sent by email with your quote.
Product Specification at a Glance
- Product: pink pitaya powder (red dragon fruit)
- Botanical name: Selenicereus costaricensis
- Ingredients: 100% dragon fruit (pink pitaya)
- Processing: finely milled fruit powder
- Colour: vibrant magenta to deep pink
- Taste: mildly sweet, delicate fruity flavour with subtle tropical notes
- Diet: vegan
- Packaging: 25 kg drum
- Storage: cool, dry place below 25 °C
- Shelf life: 2 years from production date
Ordering, Samples and Payment
Ordering in bulk takes four steps:
- Send your request with quantity, delivery country, application and expected annual volume.
- Receive price, dispatch date and the documents you asked for by email.
- Test a sample to check colour, taste and performance in your own recipe.
- Take delivery from the Swedish warehouse to your door.
Requests receive a reply within 24 hours on working days. Approved clients can pay by invoice in 30, 60 or 90 days.
Why Powder Rather Than Fresh Fruit or Purée
Fresh red dragon fruit is seasonal, perishable and hard to source in Europe in steady volumes, and frozen purée needs freezer space and a cold chain. Powder avoids both. It is stored in a cool, dry place below 25 °C, has a shelf life of 2 years from production date and can be dosed by weight for every batch. It also adds no water to a recipe, which matters in frostings, macarons, chocolate and dry mixes.
What to Check When Choosing a Supplier
Price per kilogram is only one part of the decision. Before approving a pink pitaya powder, check:
- The botanical name, to confirm the powder is made from red-fleshed dragon fruit rather than pale white-fleshed fruit
- That the ingredient list reads 100% dragon fruit, not a blend with sugar, carriers or added colours
- Batch documentation, and how batch-to-batch shade variation is handled
- Pack size, shelf life and storage conditions
- Whether the supplier can keep up with your future volume, not only the first order
Request a Quote or Sample
To discuss volume, documents or a trial, use the request form on the Bulk Pink Pitaya Powder 25kg page, or browse all bulk powders if you are sourcing several colours at once. Our guide to buying pink pitaya powder in Europe and our article on pink pitaya powder for food manufacturers go into more detail. For home use or a small first test, the Pink Pitaya Powder – 70g pack is available in the shop.
