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Key Food Stores Adopts AgroFresh Program To Manage Banana Quality

RipeLock Quality Systems, a quality management system for bananas, will be implemented at Key Food Stores. According to AgroFresh Solutions, the RipeLock program “offers Key Food an innovative fruit quality management system for bananas that look better, taste better and stay fresh longer.” “RipeLock is being rolled out to all of our stores in November […]

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Sous Vide Organic Vegetables: A New Ready-To-Eat Option

Las Vegas, Nevada-based Straight From The Root is bringing the French style of sous vide cooking to American kitchens with USDA organic, cut and fully cooked vegetables. Straight From The Root’s sous vide cooking method involves submerging a BPA-free, vacuum-sealed bag of cut, organic vegetables in heated water to cook them completely. The bags are then […]

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Aurora Organic Dairy Out Ahead Of Corporate Citizenship Goals

Boulder, Colorado-based Aurora Organic Dairy, a leading producer of store brand organic milk, remains on track to surpass several of its five-year corporate citizenship goals, which were established in 2012. Aurora comprises more than 75,000 acres of organic farmland operated by 100 independent farmers and 12,000 organic pasture acres surrounding its dairy farms. The company […]

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Pork Comes Out As Top Protein In HelloFresh Survey

Meal kit delivery company HelloFresh knows that keeping its offerings fresh and on-trend are key to success. In May, the company conducted a nationwide survey that polled 1,168 respondents, including current HelloFresh customers and non-customers, about their preferences on types of cuisine, techniques and ingredients. This, combined with analysis of over a year’s worth of […]

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Beef Checkoff Promotes Batch Cooking For Back-To-School Meals

With school back in session, family schedules are ramping up. To help them get back in the swing of post-summer life, the Beef Checkoff is helping stretched families by providing batch cooking tips to ensure meal planning is stress-free but still nutritious. The promotional board is offering tips on batch-cooking shredded beef and steak and […]

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Hannaford, New York Partner On State Grown & Certified Program

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced a partnership with Hannaford Supermarkets to promote local products from farms participating in the New York State Grown & Certified program. Hannaford is the first grocer in New York’s Capital Region to feature products grown and produced by New York farms that the state has certified as using safe food […]

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John Soules Debuts New Varieties Of Fully-Cooked Products

John Soules Foods has expanded its fully-cooked lines with several new items. Added to the company’s mainstay retail items, like its best-selling beef and chicken fajitas, are Oven Roasted Chicken, Sriracha Chicken and Korean-Style Barbecue Beef varieties. Tyler, Texas-based John Soules also debuted breaded poultry items at the International Dairy Deli Bake, held June 4-6 in […]

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Kings Food Markets, Balducci’s Choose KeHE

Kings Food Markets and Balducci’s Food Lover’s Market have selected KeHE Distributors as a specialty distributor for natural & organic, specialty and private label items. The agreement is effective immediately. The transition is scheduled to be complete this summer. “Across the KeHE community, we are energized to put our compelling service, pricing and promotions model […]