Supermarket "Fresh"
Day 1, Store produce is picked and harvested on morning of day 1; later in the day it arrives at a plant for processing. It is cleaned and cut up and boxed for shipping.
Day 2, Assuming absolutely no delays, it is shipped to a distribution staging warehouse.
Day 3, product is redistributed to a local food service customer.
Day 4, Product arrives and hopefully on day 4 the produce is used. Let’s mark Day 4 as fresh to the consumer. Realistically this is a very optimistic scenario. If it is shipped to the East Coast add more days. Supermarket Fresh allows a lot of time for product to lose quality.
How does Patterson Vegetable Company deliver a more consistent and “fresher” product than “fresh” vegetables? Let’s look at these scenarios:
Frozen: “Fresher than Fresh”
Compare this to frozen vegetables in your store. Patterson frozen vegetables are harvested on the morning of Day 1 within a couple of hours they go to the processing plant for cleaning and cutting. Within a maximum of 6 to 8 hours of being harvested they are Individually Quick Frozen locking in all the quality freshness, nutritional value and yes, taste. Mark this point as “Fresh” to the consumer.
6 to 8 hour versus 4 -7 days. Not much comparison. Because it is frozen, it doesn’t matter if it is going to the East Coast or around the world or if it is completely out of season.
Harvested, processed and frozen at the peak of ripeness, our vegetables retain their sun-ripened flavor. Patterson Vegetable Company creates the highest quality frozen product available for your customers and your markets.