Food service buys on convenience and portion economics as much as on taste. Pack format, thaw behaviour and waste per portion often decide the listing before the product is even tasted.
Fruit serving shells are whole fruits — orange, lemon, pineapple, coconut, melon and cocoa pod — hollowed out and frozen to become a natural, edible-adjacent presentation vessel rather than an industrial byproduct. Restaurants, gelaterias, hotels and dessert brands fill the shell with matching-flavor ice cream or sorbet (orange shell with orange sorbet, coconut shell with coconut ice cream) and serve it as the fruit itself, giving a zero-waste, Instagram-ready presentation that a plain scoop or tub cannot match. Scala Nuova supplies orange, lemon, pineapple, coconut, melon and cocoa shells frozen and ready for food-service use.
Ask what pack sizes are available and how the product behaves once opened. A format that forces a kitchen to open more than it uses turns a good price into an expensive one.
Kitchens thaw ahead of service. Ask how long the product holds after thawing and whether it releases water — that figure determines real cost per portion.
Multi-site operators need every branch to produce the same plate. Specify the tolerance that keeps a recipe identical from one delivery and one city to the next.
| Product varieties in this category | 6 |
|---|---|
| Available cuts and forms | Halved |
| Packaging formats | Carton boxes on pallets |
| Storage and transport | Frozen at −18 °C, unbroken cold chain · Ambient, cool and dry, away from direct sunlight |
| Minimum order quantity | 1 FCL (1x20ft container); smaller volumes on selected products |
| Incoterms | EXW · FOB · CFR · CIF (import clearance by buyer) |
| Production facility certifications | FSSC 22000 · BRCGS · ISO 22000 · Kosher · Halal · Organic |
| Documentation per shipment | Certificate of Analysis (COA), technical specification, certificate of origin, health certificate where the destination requires it |
| Origin | Türkiye (own sourcing regions), complemented by tropical and counter-season origins |
