The I Love Produce team recently inspected the new crop garlic coming into the harvest season in Mendoza, Argentina and got a dose of the World Cup and soccer culture to boot.
I Love Produce President Jim Provost and Sebastian Zamores, food safety and quality control coordinator, spent a week visiting the company’s garlic suppliers in Mendoza. The visit coincided with Argentina’s quarter-final World Cup match against the Netherlands.
“Normally we visit Argentina to inspect garlic during their early summer, which in the Southern Hemisphere is in December,” Provost said. “Because of COVID, this was our first trip in three years, so it was very important for us to see our partners in Argentina.”
Argentina had very good weather conditions at harvest, which was dry and not too hot. Their garlic is clean with good size, according to a release.
“I Love Produce offers the newest, freshest garlic available to our customer partners,” Zamores said. “We will have new garlic that we will be proud to market, making our customers and suppliers very happy.”
The West Grove, Pa.-based company has two representatives in Argentina — Fernando Di Lello and Yueh Cheng Chu — sourcing garlic and providing information about garlic and market conditions to I Love Produce.
I Love Produce says it has new crop white Argentina garlic available in time for the holidays.
