OREGON HAZELNUTS
Give your customers something new to discover.
Hazelnut brings distinctive roasted flavor, aroma and texture — with a nutrition story that opens new possibilities for food and beverage businesses.
WHY HAZELNUT?
Your customers don't need another product. They need a reason to notice one.
The opportunity isn’t simply another ingredient. It’s creating something that feels different — in flavor, texture, experience and the story you can tell your customers.
Hazelnut brings all four together.
A DIFFERENT FLAVOR
A distinctive roasted character that pairs naturally with chocolate, coffee, pastry and dessert.
A MORE INTERESTING EXPERIENCE
Visible pieces, aroma and crunch make the ingredient part of what customers see, taste and feel.
A STORY BEYOND TASTE
Its nutritional profile gives you another story to tell when introducing something new.
SOMETHING NEW TO DISCOVER
An unfamiliar ingredient can become a new flavor experience customers remember.
THE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
One ingredient. More ways to create value.
Hazelnut brings together flavor, aroma, texture and a story around nutrition and origin — giving you more ways to create something new.
Hazelnut doesn’t have to replace what already works. The opportunity is to create something your current ingredients can’t quite give you.
CREATE A DIFFERENT PRODUCT
Give an existing product a new flavor direction without starting from scratch.
ADD SENSORY APPEAL
Bring together roasted aroma, visible pieces and satisfying crunch in one ingredient.
EXTEND YOUR MENU
Explore new drinks, desserts, pastries or seasonal variations around a flavor with room to be discovered.
BUILD A STRONGER PRODUCT STORY
Give the finished product a richer story — from hazelnut and nutrition to Oregon origin.
MORE THAN FLAVOR
Good food can have a good story. Hazelnut gives you another one to tell.
Hazelnuts bring more than flavor. They naturally provide vitamin E, protein, fiber and predominantly unsaturated fats — giving you another dimension to explore when creating and communicating a new product.
VITAMIN E
Naturally rich in vitamin E
PLANT PROTEIN
A natural source of plant protein
DIETARY FIBER
Naturally provides dietary fiber
UNSATURATED FATS
Predominantly monounsaturated
WHERE IT CAN GO
From one ingredient to many product possibilities.
Hazelnut can play very different roles across food and beverage — from a visible roasted inclusion to an ingredient that builds flavor into the product.
BAKERY
Roasted. Aromatic. Crunchy.
Possible applications:
Pastry · Cookies · Bread · Fillings · Toppings
DESSERT
Flavor and texture in the same bite
Possible applications:
Gelato · Chocolate · Cakes · Desserts · Confections
BEVERAGE
More than a flavor syrup.
Possible applications:
Coffee · Shakes · Smoothies · Specialty Drinks
FOOD MANUFACTURING
A specification-driven ingredient.
Possible applications:
Inclusions · Fillings · Formulations · Finished Products
FROM OREGON TO YOUR MARKET
An established origin for an ingredient worth discovering.
Oregon has more than a century of hazelnut cultivation behind it and produces the vast majority of the U.S. commercial crop.
For ORIHAZEL, it's where this ingredient story begins.
99%
of U.S. commercial
hazelnut production
100+ years
of Oregon
hazelnut cultivation
Orchards
Fertile soil. Ideal climate. A long-standing home for hazelnuts.
Harvest
Naturally fallen hazelnuts, mechanically collected from the orchard floor.
Processing
Roasted and sized into a consistent, ready-to-use ingredient.
WHY ORIHAZEL
We help turn ingredient potential into market opportunity.
Finding an ingredient is only the beginning. We connect U.S. sources with businesses that can turn an ingredient into a product, application or new market opportunity.
What could hazelnut do for your business?
Tell us what you’re making, what you’re using today, or simply what you’d like to explore. We’ll start with the opportunity and work from there.
ORIHAZEL USA
15010 NW Oak Hills Drive,
Beaverton, OREGON 97006, USA
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+1 503 810 9514 (USA)
+84 984 422 525 (Vietnam)