Conca d'Oro 500
Elenka product code 1187
A line of complete fruit bases in eight flavours, all dosed at 500 grams per litre of water. Add water and freeze: the flavour, the sugar and the stabiliser system are already balanced against each other. It is the fastest route to a consistent fruit tub, and it is a base rather than a paste.
Specification sheets are supplied to trade customers on request.
About Conca d'Oro 500
This page covers the whole Conca d'Oro 500 line rather than one flavour, because the eight products are one formulation in eight fruits: same dosage, same pack, same method. What changes is the fruit, and the fruit is the easy part to describe.
What it is
A complete fruit base. Five hundred grams per litre of water, dissolved and frozen — no milk, no sugar to weigh, no stabiliser to hydrate and no balance sheet to run. The number in the name is the dosage, which is a piece of honesty worth noticing.
Available as mango, strawberry, lemon, peach, pineapple, lime, coconut, and a coconut-banana-lime blend. Each carries its own Elenka code; all eight are listed above with theirs.
Why it is filed as a base and not a paste
This is the distinction that decides whether the product does what you expect.
A fruit paste is a flavour. You dose it into a mix that you have balanced, on top of a base that supplies structure, and the result is yours.
Conca d'Oro is the whole thing. Flavour, sugars and stabiliser system arrive pre-resolved against each other, and water is the only other ingredient. That is why it sits with the bases: it is a base that carries a flavour, not a flavour that needs one.
What you gain and what you give up
Gain: consistency and time. A tub in minutes, identical every batch, with no skill requirement and no dependence on what the fruit market delivered this week. For a site with one person on the machine and twenty flavours to fill, that is worth a great deal.
Give up: a house style. Every decision about sweetness, acidity and texture has been made for you, so your mango tastes like everyone else's mango. You also give up the ability to use good Australian fruit when it is in season, which is the thing that makes a fruit cabinet worth visiting.
The sensible arrangement is both
Run two or three sorbets balanced from scratch around whatever fruit is genuinely good this month, and fill the rest of the fruit cabinet from this line so the range is full and the attention goes where it earns something.
That way the cabinet is never short, and the flavours you actually talk about are the ones you actually made. The scratch-balancing method, including why Australian fruit needs measuring rather than trusting, is in Sorbet Balancing for Australian Fruit.
Read the denominator
Five hundred grams per litre of water. Fruit bases are quoted against water; cream pastes against the finished mix. It is the same trap described on every page in this category, and it is the one that turns a costing exercise into a guess.
What we do not publish
Ingredients, allergens, shelf life and storage conditions are absent from this page because no Elenka specification sheet is held for the Australian range. Absent means the data is not held, never that the answer is no. Elenka's catalogue makes a gluten statement about its fruit-base line as a whole, but a line-level sentence in a catalogue is not a per-product specification, so no dietary claim is published here. Request the sheet.
Technical specifications
| Recommended dosage | 500 g per litre of water — The same figure across every flavour in the line. |
|---|---|
| Formats | Mango — 1.5 kg pail, 10 per carton; Strawberry — 1.5 kg pail, 10 per carton; Lemon — 1.5 kg pail, 10 per carton; Peach — 1.5 kg pail, 10 per carton; Pineapple — 1.5 kg pail, 10 per carton; Lime — 1.5 kg pail, 10 per carton; Coconut — 1.5 kg pail, 10 per carton; Coconut, banana & lime — 1.5 kg pail, 10 per carton |
| Applications | sorbet, fruit gelato, granita |
| Elenka product code | 1187 |
Full specification on request
The ingredient list, allergen declaration, shelf life and storage conditions for Conca d'Oro 500 are provided on the Elenka specification sheet. We supply it on request — please do not rely on the product name when answering a customer allergen enquiry.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I use Conca d'Oro 500?
Five hundred grams per litre of water, dissolved and frozen. There is nothing else to add and nothing else to balance — the flavour, the sugar and the stabiliser system are already resolved against each other.
Is this a paste or a base?
A base that happens to carry a flavour. A paste is dosed into a mix you have balanced yourself; this is the whole mix apart from the water, which is why it is filed with the bases rather than with the fruit pastes.
What do I give up compared with balancing my own sorbet?
A house style, and the ability to use the fruit in front of you. The manufacturer has made every decision about sweetness, acidity and texture, so every gelateria using this line produces a similar tub — which is exactly what makes it reliable.
Which flavours are available?
Eight: mango, strawberry, lemon, peach, pineapple, lime, coconut, and a coconut-banana-lime blend. Each carries its own Elenka code and all run at the same dosage in the same 1.5 kg pack.