The colors are flying high, organic is booming, and the beetroot lardon vegan alternative to bacon cubes is beating big time at Ardo, as Europe’s leading frozen vegetable producer and marketer rolls into 2021 with a healthy harvest of nutritious and delicious products and menu suggestions.
Veggie snacking is a major food trend that has become even more appetizing due to the surge of increased at-home meal consumption, nibbling and noshing brought by coronavirus pandemic lockdowns. Tricolore Vegetable Fries from Ardo’s “Les Tapas” range feeds right into this trend, and now beetroot has been added to the mix of carrot and parsnip fries. This makes for more color and more flavor to savor in every bite.
Red Beetroot Strips
Meanwhile, pre-fried crispy Beet Bacon Crispy Beetroot lardons are gluten-free and distributed in attractive 1 kg bags made of recyclable LD-PE stamped with the European Vegetarian Union V Label. The smokey flavored product is an innovative pizza topping and a crispy addition to salads with goat cheese and apples, as well as enhancement for pasta dishes.
Rainbow Carrots
The color spectrum of Ardo’s Rainbow Carrots now includes a long-wave extreme as eye appealing red has joined the mix. Close collaboration with the vegetable specialist’s agronomy and innovations team has made it possible to add red carrot slices to the presentation. The attractive combination is completely natural and delivers a palatable palette of color that imbues an extra attractive hue to every dish.
Sweet Potatoes Organic
Sweet potatoes have become popular common addition to menus in recent years, and Ardo has been in the forefront of supplying rustic cuts of the deep-orange color offering. Now they are included in the company’s organic range to provide another option for bio organic meal makers and consumers.
Grill Mix a la Siciliana
Consumers are invited to enjoy an even more flavorful Mediterranean vegetables experience with Ardo’s grill range, whic has been expanded with Grill Mix a la Siciliana. Its appetizing mix of colors and flavors boasts grilled yellow and green zucchini, grilled peppers and oven-dried marinated tomatoes. Promoted as “the sun on your plate,” the mix is great as antipasti, in a salad or as side dish to accompany fish, meat. pasta or veggies.
Customer Service First and Foremost
As the world moves forward in 2021 to mitigate, overcome and ultimately defeat the Covid-19 health crisis, Ardo stands firm on supporting its customers. Food safety, as always, remains in sharp focus as the company not only responds to trends, but does its best to anticipate what will happen next.
Headquartered in the West Flanders region of Belgium, Ardo is a major player in the production of fresh-frozen vegetables, herbs and fruits for retail, foodservice and industrial customers around the world. Operating 21 production units in nine countries, the company produced more than 940,000 tons of volume and generated €1.1 billion in turnover in 2019. Employing more than 4,000 people, it sources high quality raw material from approximately 3,500 growers working more than 50,000 hectares of farm land.
