Quality Assurance for the Food Industry in Turkey
For food manufacturers, retailers and brand owners buying ingredients and finished products from Turkey, we combine supplier audits, production monitoring and inspection into one quality programme.
What matters in this sector
Turkey is one of the largest food exporters in its region, with a manufacturing base that ranges from multinational plants to family processors. That range is an opportunity for buyers, and it is also the reason supplier selection and verification matter. Two plants holding the same certificate can perform very differently on your product.
We work with procurement and quality teams to decide where control is needed: at supplier approval, during production, before shipment, or across the whole relationship. The aim is the smallest programme that controls the real risks.
Products in this sector
31 inspection guides.
Processed Food
Category overviewTomato Paste
Turkey is one of the world's leading tomato paste producers, processing open-field tomatoes from Marmara and the Aegean in a short summer campaign.
Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Dried Vegetables
The Aegean region is a major source of sun-dried tomatoes, along with dried peppers, eggplants and other vegetables.
Canned Fruits and Vegetables
Turkish canners pack vegetables, legumes, fruits, ready meals and stuffed vine leaves for retail and foodservice.
Pickles
Turkey exports pickled gherkins, peppers and mixed vegetables in brine and vinegar to Europe and the Middle East.
Table Olives
Turkey is one of the world's largest table olive producers, known for naturally black Gemlik olives and green Domat olives.
Jams and Sauces
Turkish fruit preserves include sour cherry, fig, apricot, strawberry and rose jams, as well as pomegranate molasses, pepper paste and other sauces.
Frozen Fruits and Vegetables
Turkey has a substantial freezing industry supplying sour cherries, strawberries, peas, beans, peppers, spinach, broccoli and mixed vegetables to European processors and retailers.
Fruit Juice Concentrates
Turkey is a major supplier of apple juice concentrate and one of the main sources of sour cherry and pomegranate concentrates.
Spices and Herbs
Turkey is a leading world supplier of dried oregano and bay leaves and a significant source of cumin, sumac, red pepper flakes and other spices.
Tea
Turkish black tea is grown on the steep slopes of the eastern Black Sea coast.
Confectionery
Turkey is a large exporter of sugar confectionery, including Turkish delight (lokum), tahini halva, hard candy, jelly and chewing gum.
Chocolate
Turkey is a significant exporter of chocolate and chocolate-coated products, using its own hazelnuts in many recipes.
Biscuits
Turkey is one of the world's largest biscuit exporters, producing sweet biscuits, crackers, wafers and cakes for more than a hundred markets.
Bakery Products
Turkish bakery exports include frozen baklava and pastries, filo (yufka), simit, breadsticks and packaged breads.
Pasta
Turkey is one of the world's largest pasta exporters, supplying Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe from modern durum wheat mills and pasta plants.
Edible Oils
Category overviewDairy and Animal-Origin Products
Category overviewCheese
Turkish cheese exports include white brined cheese (beyaz peynir), kashar, labneh-style products and specialities.
Dairy Products
Turkey has a large dairy sector exporting UHT milk, milk powder, yoghurt, ayran, butter and dairy desserts, mainly to the Middle East and Central Asia.
Honey
Turkey is among the world's largest honey producers and the main source of pine honey, produced from honeydew in the forests around Muğla.
Eggs
Turkey is one of the world's largest table egg exporters, shipping large volumes to Iraq and other regional markets.
Poultry Meat
Turkey is a major poultry meat exporter, supplying frozen whole birds and cuts to Iraq, the Gulf, Africa and Asia.
Farmed Fish
Turkey is one of the largest producers of farmed sea bass and sea bream in the Mediterranean and a major producer of rainbow trout, including large Black Sea trout.
Dried Fruits
Category overviewDried Apricots
Turkey supplies the large majority of the world's dried apricots, almost all of them processed in and around Malatya.
Dried Figs
Turkey produces most of the world's dried figs, nearly all from the Büyük Menderes and Küçük Menderes valleys of Aydın and İzmir.
Sultana Raisins
Turkey is one of the world's leading raisin exporters, specialising in sultanas from the seedless Sultani Çekirdeksiz grape.
Dried Mulberries
White mulberries dried in Malatya and Eastern Anatolia have found a growing market in health food and snack ranges.
Hazelnuts
Turkey grows roughly two thirds of the world's hazelnuts along its Black Sea coast and supplies most of the global confectionery industry.
Pistachios
Turkish pistachios, known as Antep pistachios, are smaller and more intensely flavoured than many other origins.
Almonds
Turkey produces almonds in the Aegean, Mediterranean and Southeast regions, with planting expanding in recent years.
Walnuts
Turkey is one of the larger walnut producers, with extensive new orchards of grafted varieties.
Find your local quality partner in Turkey.
Tell us the product, the supplier and the date. We will confirm scope, method and cost, usually within one business day.