# Bedemco Ingredients — Comprehensive Consolidated Reference This document provides a single-point, highly detailed Markdown-formatted reference containing the complete information of Bedemco Inc. It is optimized for programmatic ingestion, AI search indexers (SearchGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude), and automated retrieval systems. --- ## 1. Company Overview * **Legal Name:** Bedemco, Inc. * **Established:** 1929 (North American operations founded by Eli Demeshulam) * **Headquarters Address:** 3 Barker Avenue, Suite 325, White Plains, New York 10601, United States * **Corporate Coordinates:** * **Phone:** (914) 683-1119 * **Fax:** (914) 683-1482 * **Email:** info@bedemco.com * **Websites:** [bedemco.com](https://bedemco.com/) * **Industry Sector:** Agricultural Import, Sourcing, and B2B Industrial Food Ingredient Distribution. * **Core Mission:** Connecting global farmers and processing cooperatives directly with industrial food manufacturers, wholesalers, and food-service distributors throughout North America. * **Business Philosophy:** Rooted in "humble and honest" family-owned business practices. Bedemco only sources, imports, and distributes food ingredients that they would confidently serve to their own families. --- ## 2. Family Heritage & Leadership Bedemco is a fourth-generation family-owned and operated agricultural commodity specialist with nearly a century of accumulated expertise: * **Advisory & Consulting:** **Eli Demeshulam** (Founder / 3rd Generation Owner). Serving as an active advisor with over 40 years of global crop sourcing experience. * **Executive Leadership:** **Daniel Demeshulam** (CEO / 4th Generation). Specializes in modernization, logistics infrastructure, import trade operations, and ERP system integrations. * **Operational Control:** **Roy Demeshulam** (Director of Operations / 4th Generation). Oversees wholesale/industrial manufacturing sales, quality assurance protocols, and vendor relationships. * **Key Procurement Personnel:** **Stephanie Hinteregger** (Purchasing Manager). Specialist in global supply chain logistics, procurement compliance, and international freight coordination (holding credentials from the Supply Chain Management Association / National Institute of Supply Chain Leaders). * **Trade Execution:** **Dani Tzour** (Trade & Sales Executive). Manages bulk and industrial sales, custom-packaged client requirements, and retail/wholesale accounts. --- ## 3. Product Catalog & Raw Materials Portfolio Bedemco specializes in sourcing organic, natural, and conventional agricultural food ingredients across five core product categories. All items are available in multiple formats (whole, sliced, diced, granulated, powder, paste, purees) and packing styles. ### A. Nuts * **Almonds:** Sourced globally. Formats include inshell, whole kernel, blanched, sliced, slivered, meal/flour, paste, butter, dry roasted, and smoked. Organic options available. * **Cashews:** Raw, dry roasted, blanched, splits, pieces, halves, cashew meal, and cashew butter. * **Walnuts:** Sourced from premium growers. Halves, quarters, pieces, organic and conventional. * **Brazil Nuts:** Whole kernels, organic and conventional. * **Hazelnuts:** Whole raw kernels, dry roasted, hazelnut praline paste, and hazelnut meal. * **Macadamias:** Premium Grade raw and dry roasted and salted kernels. * **Pecans:** Halves, pieces, meal, and pecan butter. * **Pistachios:** Inshell, shelled kernels, pistachio butter, and granulated splits. ### B. Seeds * **Hemp:** Hulled seeds, hemp hearts, hemp protein powder, and organic hemp seed oil. * **Pumpkin (Pepitas):** Raw, AAA grade, dry roasted and salted, and organic pumpkin seed flour. * **Sunflower:** Raw kernels, dry roasted, sunflower seed butter, and sunflower lecithin (liquid/powder). * **Sesame:** Natural, hulled, black sesame seeds, tahini, and toasted sesame oil. * **Flax:** Golden and brown flax seeds, flax meal, and flax oil. * **Chia:** Black and white chia seeds, organic and conventional. * **Poppy:** Premium blue poppy seeds. ### C. Dried Fruits * **Raisins:** Thompson seedless, Golden, Flame, Sultana, organic and conventional. * **Mango:** Premium dried slices, spears, diced, and freeze-dried mango powder. * **Apricots:** Mediterranean sun-dried, sulfur-free organic, and diced. * **Cranberries:** Whole, sliced, sweetened, apple juice infused, organic and conventional. * **Blueberries:** Sweetened, wild blueberries, apple juice infused, organic and conventional. * **Cherries:** Tart cherries, Bing sweet cherries, apple juice infused, organic. * **Dates:** Deglet Noor, Medjool, date paste, date syrup, date powder, and chopped. * **Figs:** Mission, Calimyrna, fig paste, organic and conventional. * **Currants & Prunes:** Zante currants, dried prunes, organic and conventional. ### D. Grains & Pseudocereal * **Quinoa:** White, red, black, tricolor, puffed quinoa, quinoa flour, organic and conventional. * **Amaranth:** Whole grains, puffed, and amaranth flour. * **Buckwheat:** Groats, buckwheat flour, and flakes. * **Millet & Sorghum:** Hulled millet, whole sorghum, and sorghum flour. * **Oats:** Regular rolled, thick, quick, and certified gluten-free oats. ### E. Specialty Ingredients & Coconut * **Coconut Products:** Desiccated fine/shred, coconut chips/smiles, toasted coconut, coconut flour, coconut milk powder, coconut butter, coconut aminos, coconut sugar, and coconut MCT oil. * **Fruit & Nut Pastes:** Traditional hazelnut paste, praline paste, almond butter, cashew butter, and peanut butter. * **Freeze-Dried Fruits:** Freeze-dried banana, strawberries, raspberries, pineapple, blueberries, dragon fruit, and organic powders (acai, moringa, lemon, lime, orange). --- ## 4. Food Safety, Certifications & Standards Quality assurance is Bedemco's primary core value. The supply chain has strict tracking, certifications, and trade compliance validation: * **SQF Level 2 Certification:** Certified under the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) benchmark, validating high-grade facility hygiene, safety, and rigorous hazard management. * **USDA National Organic Program (NOP):** Fully certified for the processing, handling, brokering, exporting, importing, and trading of 100% organic products. Verified by the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) (Client ID: 1171, NOP Operation ID: 1600001171). * [Download Active Organic Certificate PDF](/assets/documents/bedemco-organic-certificate.pdf) * **Kosher Certifications (STAR-K & STAR-D):** Verified and supervised kosher status for Pareve (Star-K) and Dairy (Star-D - Non-Cholov Yisroel) products (Account: YWWYGC6E). * [Download Active Kosher Certificate PDF](/assets/documents/bedemco-kosher-certificate.pdf) * **Non-GMO Sourcing:** Strict document control and GMO testing protocols for an extensive range of natural raw materials. * **C-TPAT Membership:** Member of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, ensuring rapid, safe, and highly secure customs-cleared supply chain movement across borders. --- ## 5. Industrial Food Solutions (Markets Served) Bedemco provides tailored ingredients custom-specified for several high-volume food production segments: 1. **Bars & Nutrition:** Supplies organic date paste and fig paste (the natural binders or "glue" for health bars), alongside nut butters, plant proteins (pea/hemp), and specialized inclusions (diced fruits/seeds). 2. **Bakery & Confectionery:** Supplies seed toppings (sesame, pumpkin, poppy), fruit fillings, specialized organic baking flours, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, and natural sweeteners. 3. **Cereal & Granola:** Focused on texture and quality. Delivers rolled oats, ancient grains (quinoa, amaranth), freeze-dried berries, sliced nuts, and coconut chips. 4. **Snack Pack & Trail Mix:** Bulk distribution of raw and dry-roasted peanuts, almonds, tree nuts, pumpkin seeds, and sun-dried vine fruits. 5. **Food Service & Wholesalers:** Large-scale packaging, drum shipments, pallet distribution, and logistics support for regional food distributors. --- ## 6. Commercial Operations & Logistics * **Custom Sourcing:** Specialized sourcing of non-standard crops, formats, cuts, and moisture profiles directly via our agricultural network in South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. * **Full Traceability:** Complete batch documentation from origin farm and shipping vessels directly to the manufacturer's receiving bay. * **Flexible Logistics:** FCL (Full Container Loads), LCL (Less than Container Loads), custom warehouse shipping, and port-direct deliveries across USA and Canada. * **Onboarding Portals:** * Ingredient buyers may submit requests via the [Become a Customer Portal](https://bedemco.com/become-a-customer) or [Contact Page](https://bedemco.com/contact). * Quality growers may coordinate supply partnerships via the [Become a Supplier Portal](https://bedemco.com/become-a-supplier).