Take the Production out of your kitchen with our Garden Cut line!

 Garden cut is our specialty division offering made-to-order processing of fresh fruits, vegetables, and specialty items.  And we're not just talking about the basics; our Garden Cut division offers more than 400 products to our foodservice clients:

• Staple items of the fresh-cut category such as lettuce, onion, peppers, apples, and melon.
•  Unique produce such as parsnip coins or peeled and quartered butternut squash
• Customer-specified products such as stir-fry blends and fajita mixes. 

Reduce labor costs. Minimize product shrink.  Minimize your food safety liability. Garden Cut helps foodservice operators achieve these benefits by taking production out of their kitchens and back rooms. Garden Cut adheres to the principals of HACCP and all employees are trained in safe food-handling practices. In addition to numerous state, federal and local inspections the Garden Cut facility is inspected by our 3rd party auditor, ASI Food Safety Consultants. They audit Garden Cut unannounced twice a year to assess our facility and we have always maintained rating of "Good" or higher. 

 Be sure to try these premium special order fruit selections today as well as all the other new and exciting selections from the Garden Cut category.  For a complete list of Garden Cut items, please contact your sales rep.

Mango with Chili Lime      Product Code - 3858

The mango is indigenous to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.  Cultivated in many tropical regions and distributed widely in the world, mango is one of the most popularly exploited fruits for food, juice, flavor, fragrance and color.  Mangos dusted with chilli-lime is one of the most popular street snacks in Mexico.  Try our version, featuring Tajin seasoning today!

Berries -

Raspberries: Supplies are better with a weaker market. Quality is good.

Blackberries: Good supplies and moderate demand is causing a steady market. Quality is being reported as good.

Iceberg Lettuce  - The persistent wet, cold and windy conditions of April continue into May. Current lettuce supplies are sporadic because of planting gaps, below-normal temperatures, and wet and windy conditions. The supply stream is inconsistent from one shipper to the next.  Salinas Valley lettuce shippers continue to struggle with yields as low as 700 cartons per acre compared to the anticipated 900 to 1,000. During extended periods of sub-par yields, processors churn through extra lettuce acreage to achieve their necessary raw product requirements. It perpetuates the problem of light yields and delays the eventual return to normal production levels and quality conditions. Today's quality has improved noticeably over the past two weeks but still has a host of issues, including bottom rot, mildew, occasional red ribs, small head size and light weights. The lettuce market is somewhat brittle. Foodservice and retail prices could jump considerably in a short period of time if processors find the need to buy extra lettuce acreage on the open market.

Watermelon - Better supplies on seedless product withseeded watermelon now also in good supplies.Prices are steady. The mini seedless are inbetter supply and quality is good, the marketremains flat.