Hawaiian Sun Company
Hawaiian Sun Products is a manufacturer of tropical fruit food products including juice, breakfast syrups, pancake, and more.
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Private
- Founded Date 1952
- Operating Status Active
- Legal Name Hawaiian Sun Products, Inc.
- Company Type For Profit
- Contact Email [email protected]
- Phone Number
A TASTE OF HAWAII Hawaiian Sun
MADE IN HAWAII SINCE 1952, HAWAIIAN SUN IS A FAMILY BUSINESS THAT ORIGINALLY STARTED AS PAPAYA FARMERS THAT BECAME A FOOD STAPLE IN HAWAII HOMES. TODAY, HAWAIIAN SUN A HOUSEHOLD FAVORITE ENJOYED AT HOME, THE BEACH, PARKS, SCHOOL AND AT FAMILY GATHERINGS. HAWAIIAN SUN USES THE FRESHEST INGREDIENTS TO PRODUCE THE BEST TASTING, HIGHEST QUALITY PRODUCTS TO REMIND YOU OF HAWAII. ENJOY A TASTE OF HAWAII WITH HAWAIIAN SUN TROPICAL FRUIT JUICES AND TEAS, CHOCOLATE MACADAMIA NUT CANDIES, LILIKOI JELLY AND GUAVA JAM, BANANA PANCAKES AND COCONUT SYRUP AS PART OF THE MANY FRUIT DRINK AND SNACK FLAVORS.
Who owns Hawaiian Sun products?
Hawaiian Sun Products Inc., founded in 1952 by the Kurihara Brothers, originated as a fresh fruit business with a farm in the Wailua/ Kualoa area.
Where is Hawaiian Sun manufactured?
Hawaiian Sun is a food and beverage manufacturer of tropical juice, preserves, breakfast syrups and chocolate macadamia nut candies made in Hawaii.
Hawaiian Sun.
Their juices, including guava, lilikoi, lilikoi-lychee, mango and pass-o-guava, are what remind kama’aina of Hawaii and are what locals who move from the islands crave when
they are away. 21 drink flavors, six jelly flavors, luau syrups, five pancake syrups and 100 different boxes of candy that they produce. Hawaiian Sun Products Inc., founded in 1952 by the Kurihara Brothers, originated as a fresh fruit business with a farm in the Wailua/ Kualoa area. In the back half of the decade, they opened a Honolulu facility and started canning juice. Shortly thereafter, they became the first American company to hot pack juice in aluminum cans instead of steel, a parallel to Primo Beer being the first American Brewery to use aluminum cans.
Hawaiian Sun Products a 4th generation family owned and operated business with an emphasis on team effort. There are members of the team with 30+ years of work experience; it’s a place where multiple family members of different generations have worked to create a high quality and consistent local staple. The team is led by President Brian Tsuruda and Vice President Kent Kurihara. According to Fernandez, Hawaiian Sun puts taste and quality ingredients at the center of their approach to provide a “great customer experience.” The research and development process is led by the Kurihara family, who collaborates on new flavors and enlists the assistance of flavor houses that they have built multi-generational relationships with. When finalizing product development, the entire family invited to provide input. Over the past few years, a new flavor has debuted every August at the Made in Hawaii Festival.
GUAVA Hawaiian Sun
Due to the size and scale of Hawaiian Sun, recommendation: Read the nutrition label to understand the ingredients used, including the type of sweetener
and the origin of the flavor (whether it comes from a puree, a concentrate or a flavoring). Recently, the company updated all of their cans to meet the latest
FDA requirements, which go into effect in 2020. To learn more about the thought process that went into the ingredients selection, we asked Fernandez to guide us
through a couple of the key ingredients. Big Island Guava is the key ingredient of Hawaiian Sun and their main commodity. Sourced by a dedicated team from farms the company has been working with for generations. The guava shipped over (via Young Brothers) to Oahu as whole fruit. Once reaching Hawaiian Sun’s juice facility, processed into puree by removing the skin and seeds. Pineapples sourced from Dole and typically comes in as a concentrate. As Dole is a multinational business, the primary sources for pineapple juice include: the Philippines, South East Asia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Wahiawa-grown pineapple occasionally used. because it tastes different. This difference, as many of us in Hawaii know, due to the pineapple’s low acidity, found in a few other places around the world.
Sugar is either cane sugar, high fructose corn syrup, or a blend of the two depending on what provides better flavor. Up until two years ago, Maui sugar was used. Since the closing of Maui Sugar Plantation, the company has started sourcing sugar from Central America. Due to their limited availability and high demand, South American papaya and lilikoi brought in as a concentrate.
GUAVA Hawaiian Sun
Recommendation: Read the nutrition label to understand the ingredients used, including the type of sweetener and the origin of the flavor (whether it comes from a puree, a concentrate or a flavoring).
Big Island Guava is the key ingredient of Hawaiian Sun and their main commodity. Sourced by a dedicated team from farms the company has been working with for generations. The guava shipped over (via Young Brothers) to Oahu as whole fruit. Once reaching Hawaiian Sun’s juice facility, processed into puree by removing the 0skin and seeds.
Pineapple sourced from Dole and typically comes in as a concentrate. As Dole is a multinational business, the primary sources for pineapple juice include: the
Philippines, South East Asia, Thailand, and Vietnam. However, Wahiawa-grown pineapple occasionally used. This difference, as many of us in Hawaii know, is due
to the pineapple’s low acidity, found in a few other places around the world.
Sugar is either cane sugar, high fructose corn syrup, or a blend of the two depending on what provides better flavor. Maui sugar was used. Since the closing of Maui Sugar Plantation, the company has started sourcing sugar from Central America.
Due to their limited availability and high demand, South American papaya and lilikoi are brought in as a concentrate.
Product Consistency Hawaiian Sun
As agricultural goods often change in taste, (based upon time of year, growing season, as well as the origin of the product) consistency is key. To achieve this, when Hawaiian Sun’s “formulators” are creating a batch, they check for consistency in taste, brix, and ingredient specs and adjust accordingly. The first test before pasteurization, allows the recipe to be altered. The batch is rechecked after pasteurization because pasteurization will slightly modify flavors.
Hawaiian Sun’s powdered drinks made by a co-packer and do not use the same ingredients as the canned juice. Because of this, getting the flavor of the powdered
drink to match the flavor of its canned counterpart was the biggest challenge during the development process. The powdered drinks created because there is
a large demand for Hawaiian Sun products to be sent as omiyage; shipping cans of liquid to the mainland is particularly expensive.
Hawaiian Sun Jams and Jellies made with no preservatives, along with similar ingredients as their juice counterparts. The difference between the jam and jelly is
that the jelly made from the puree, or juice liquid, and the jam made from the solids. The Guava jelly made with strained Guava Juice, while the
Guava Jam made from puree.
Hawaiian Sun proudly offers distinctive and delicious products with a tropical touch. We urge you to try our signature candies for yourself. Our special blend of rich ingredients help make our chocolate a touch darker and more ono (delicious) than most milk-chocolates. Take a box with you and experience the unique flavor of Hawaiian Sun candies! Hand dipped in Hawaii.
Hand Dipped in Hawaii, Made in Hawaii USA Hawaiian Sun
Hawaiian Sun. Their juices, including guava, lilikoi, lilikoi-lychee, mango and pass-o-guava, are what remind kama’aina of Hawaii and are what locals who move from the islands crave when they are away.
21 drink flavors, six jelly flavors, luau syrups, five pancake syrups and 100 different boxes of candy that they produce.
Hawaiian Sun, is a cultural institution in Hawaii. A universal appeal the flavors unique in a beverage, common enough not to be unusual. We see that Hawaiian Sun could expand (even in Hawaii) behind the bar. This is because cocktails have become significantly more culinary in approach. On top of that, tropical juice flavors are trending, and the product provides familiar, yet interesting, flavors that are easily integratable into “tropical” feeling drinks.
Plus, the price works out very well. At a retail price of $4.00, you’re at $.66 per 3 oz; there are 8 oz per can in which you’ll probably only use 3 to 4 oz of. This means that your PC is $0.33 for a cocktail that can easily fetch $8.00+ or in a tourist market of $12+. Yet, in Hawaii, (and even in mainland markets such as Los Angeles and Las Vegas) Hawaiian Sun products would also work well as they provide unique tropical flavors that you don’t have to make yourself.
HAWAIIAN SUN MACADAMIA NUTS GROWN IN RICH VOLCANIC SOIL, NURTURED BY COOL TROPICAL BREEZES AND WATERED BY CRYSTAL RAINFALLS. EACH HAND SELECTED NUT DRY ROASTED TO PERFECTION CAPTURING ITS CREAMY, LIGHT TASTE AND HAND DIPPED IN A SPECIAL BLEND OF CHOCOLATE ALL HANDMADE IN HAWAII.
WE OFFER A VARIETY OF CHOCOLATE COVERED MACADAMIA NUT FLAVORS IN VARIOUS SIZES FROM INDIVIDUAL TO FAMILY PACK SIZES PERFECT FOR TRAVELING, AT HOME AND FOR GIFTS.
TROPICAL FRUIT PRESERVES Hawaiian Sun
AN ISLAND FAVORITE SINCE 1952, OUR TROPICAL FLAVORS MADE IN HAWAII WITH REAL FRUIT. ENJOY FARM TO JAR FRESHNESS WITH NO PRESERVATIVES, NO ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR AND NO ARTIFICIAL COLOR.
The powdered versions of Hawaiian Sun drinks an instant hit with island residents eager to share the flavors of home with loved ones on the mainland and beyond
The stroke of genius came during a company brainstorming session in 2006. After the initial idea, it took 18 months of testing and tinkering to get the mixes for the four flavors.
