About IDF®
Family Founded and Grown
The IDF® Promise
International Dehydrated Foods, Inc. (IDF®) is devoted to crafting real ingredients from real food. Upholding poultry’s natural goodness, IDF® creates ingredients with integrity, bringing chicken’s foundational flavor and nutrition to our partners’ food, beverage, and supplement applications.
What IDF® Stands For
IDF® chicken ingredients are the industry’s gold standard because we craft them with integrity, so you can use them to make your applications the best they can be.
Our chicken powders, broths, and fats deliver foundational flavor and nutrition, while our commitment and capabilities help get your ideas off the ground, onto the shelf, and into your customers’ kitchens.
Responsibility
IDF™ is known for creating quality nutrition in real food ingredients.
Vision & Values
Our dedication includes bettering the communities that have enabled IDF® to flourish.
Market Reach
IDF is proud to serve the United States and many other countries with all American-made products.
IDF® History
In 1982, entrepreneur William (Bill) Darr founded IDF®. Informed by his agribusiness education, experience working in quality control within the food industry, and his unique vision for elevating the quality and capability of poultry-based real ingredients, Bill Darr grew a business that has continually set the gold standard for poultry-based food ingredients.
Family Founded and Grown
- the first to introduce shelf-stable chicken fat to the market
- the first to develop and introduce frozen 32% solids chicken broth to the industry
- the first to introduce the “Fast Dissolution” broth powder tower dryer, which creates a natural, clean-label broth powder with no carriers
- the first to introduce a high-protein, low-fat chicken powder with high digestibility
Since end of 2019, IDF® joined Symrise, a global supplier of fragrances, flavorings, cosmetic active ingredients and raw materials, as well as functional ingredients. IDF® became part of Diana, in the Nutrition Segment of Symrise.
Our Sister Company Diana Food
Diana Food provides natural ingredient-based solutions to the food, beverage and nutraceutical industries.
Working with carefully selected raw materials – including fruit, vegetable, meat and seafood – Diana Food creates clean-label natural ingredients that offer various properties and functional benefits such as culinary taste, color and health actives.
