Congratulations to the United Fresh 2013
NEW PRODUCT AWARDS FINALISTS Visit the United Fresh Membership Booth to Vote for Your Favorite New Product!
New products and innovations contribute substantially to the fresh and fresh-cut produce industry’s success. Leading companies contribute to the industry’s economic growth through the development, manufacturing and marketing of new and innovative products. United Fresh exhibitors are showcasing their new and innovative products in the 2013 New Product Award competition. This year’s finalists will be displayed in the United Fresh Membership Booth, located in Booth 754 on the United Fresh trade show floor. Visit the United Fresh Membership Booth to Vote for Your Favorite New Product! The winner in each category will be determined by total votes received as of 3:00 p.m. Thursday, May 16. Winners will be announced at the United Fresh Membership Booth on Thursday, May 16 at 4:00 p.m.
2013 NEW PRODUCT AWARD FINALISTS BEST NEW VEGETABLE PRODUCT Pumpkin Pie Baking Kit AMF Farms/Bay Baby Produce Booth 535 Each Bag contains 2 baby pie pumpkins and a pumpkin pie spice packet, packaged conveniently with our Ohhhh Soooo Good Pumpkin Pie Recipe. See QR code that leads to Pie baking demonstration. Organic or conventional. Tasti-Lee® Tomatoes Bejo Seeds Inc. Booth 304 Tasti-Lee®, a new premium vine-ripe tomato with Health, Flavor and Freshness! High Lycopene, (up to 50% more), deep color, balanced TRUE tomato flavor…ripened on the vine by Mother Nature. Italian Greens Church Brothers Booth 941 Italian Greens is a combination of Baby Black Kale, Baby Scarlet Kale and Wild Arugula. Italian Greens can be used in salads, as a side dish, or cooking vegetable. Grower Pete’s Organic Living Butter Lettuce and Watercress Hollandia Produce Booth 646 Greenhouse grown and certified Organic by CCOF our new Grower Pete’s Organic products are simply the best. Available year-round with unmatched quality and uniformity they create a repeatable freshness experience with every package. Bite-A-Minis Nature Fresh Farms Booth 231 “BITE A MINIS”, are an instant hit for a healthy fresh snack. Combination of red “Kiss” yellow “Sweetest” and orange “Passion” varieties, packed with flavor with every bite. Dippin Stix - Celery Reichel Foods Booth 547 Another Dippin’ Stix exclusive, fresh-cut Celery with Peanut Butter and “Ants on a Log” Peanut Butter & Raisins; providing 3 food groups, fruit, vegetable and protein in one package.
BEST NEW FRUIT PRODUCT CantaBella C.H Robinson Worldwide, Inc. Booth 207 CantaBella® melons are a cross between the Charentais and cantaloupe. A natural ripeness indicator delivers a consistently sweet eating experience every time. The semi-smooth skin also minimizes food safety issues. Flavorz Crunch Pak Booth 745 Apple Slices infused with natural flavoring, results in either Grape, Peach/Mango or Strawberry Vanilla Cream. Ready Pac Bistro Fruit Salads Ready Pac Foods Booth 704 Make fruit fun! Available in three varieties, Ready Pac Bistro™ Fruit Salads combine delicious fresh-cut fruit with specially selected toppings and dressings to create a healthy, convenient, fun eating experience. Ruby Fresh Salad Jewels Ruby Fresh Booth 303 Each convenient package of Salad Jewels Fresh Salad Mixes is a ready-to-go blend of savory ingredients with crisp Ruby Fresh pomegranate arils. Available in three varieties: Sparkling Spring Mix, Gleaming Mediterranean Medley, and Brilliant Southern Blend. Lil Snappers™ Sunkist Growers, Inc. Booth 828 Lil Snappers™ kid-size fruit from Sunkist small fruit for small hands in convenient 3lm re-sealable pouch bags. Citrus varieties include navel oranges, Cara Cara navel oranges, Moro orangs, Minneola tangelos and California mandarins.
BEST NEW PACKAGING Eco-Crate C.H Robinson Booth 207 The corn industry is transforming with the introduction of the Eco-CrateTM. This environmentally-friendly crate stacks more efficiently, reduces worker injuries and is 100% recyclable—reducing waste. It’s also PTI compliant. Cabo Fresh 100cal Snack Pack Cabo Fresh Booth 442 NEW Cabo Fresh Guacamole single serve cups! Cabo Fresh’s 2 oz guacamole is healthy, convenient and delicious! Now, you can enjoy Cabo Fresh’s all natural guacamole on the go! Salad Kitz Crunch Pak Booth 745 Fresh salad side dishes in two flavors: Tropical and Crunchy Creamy Waldorf Folding RPC InterCrate Booth 1046 FreshFold - Designed specifically for salad. Metal detectable, color choice, better volume utilization and 660 extra RPC’s empty per truck and in storage. Easier, color-coded, open and close. Smooth and ergonomic. Artisan Series Basket Weave Clamshells with Dometops JemD Farms - Red Sun & Golden Sun Greenhouse Vegetables Booth 1128 JemD Farms’ Heritage, Cocoa, and Variety trio tomatoes are now packed in a basket weave clamshell with tomato shaped dome top. Our Cherry Tomatoes, Scarlet Grape Tomato Pearls and Chef’s Collections are also available in this new style. Sunset Display Ready Box Mastronardi Produce Booth 616 The SUNSET® Display Ready Box is a shipper, storage and marketing tool all in one. This is a convenient method of shipping to retailers that is sustainable with a multipurpose. Snack Fresh NNZ Inc. Booth 1409 Snack Fresh is a high graphic, portion controlled, merchandisable package for fresh picked berries, grape tomatoes and grapes that extends shelf life and packed in a display ready transport box. Peel and Reseal Spring Mix Trays Ready Pac Foods, Inc. Booth 704 Imagine! A clamshell package that uses about 1/3 less plastic, is easy to open and reseals, and allows an extra layer on the pallet. That’s the Ready Pac Peel/Reseal Clamshell!
BEST NEW FOOD SAFETY SOLUTION ThermoTrace TTI DeltaTRAK Booth 1508 DeltaTRAK’s ThermoTrace TTI technology is a PTI cold chain traceability solution that tracks product for PTI guideline documentation and product temperatures for produce shelf life information from origin to consumer. FoodLink Item FoodLink Booth 617 FoodLink Item is a software, labeling solution that adds multi-dimensional information to individual consumer produce units. Suppliers can communicate safety, origin, quality and freshness across the fresh supply chain. Pimware Pimware Booth 1338 Pimware’s Product Integrity Monitors verify the quality and shelf life of perishable products. They have easy to use customizable temperature logging solutions and are the most affordable on the market.
BEST NEW PACKING/PROCESSING EQUIPMENT Mango Destoning Equipment ABL Booth 1328 Mango destining machine rated 22/24 stones per minute it operates as enhancements of the automatic ABL mango peeler. Average yield after destoning 50%. ECM-200 Nichimo Booth 1000 ETL approved precision slicing machine utilizing improved blade technology and conveyor transfer system reducing distortion, breakage, variances in thickness so products exit the machine in the same shape, just sliced. RayFly Raytec Vision, SPA Booth 1041 Optical Sorter for unwashed leafy products. In flight double side inspection to eliminate the contaminants normally present in the primary processing of fresh-cut salad.” robag FXIS 3ci TNA North America Booth 1408 The world’s first VFFS rotary polyethylene packaging system that delivers efficiencies of up to 99 per cent of target output while producing 150 bags per minute.
Visit the United Fresh Membership Booth to Vote for Your Favorite New Product! The winner in each category will be determined by total votes received as of 3:00 p.m. Thursday, May 16. Winners will be announced at the United Fresh Membership Booth on Thursday, May 16 at 4:00 p.m.