The jury for the Restoration Flavor of the Year awards, which are awarded to food products destined for the Horeca channel, has awarded La Unión's Long Fresh range the international quality seal "Restauration Flavor of the Year 2023", recognizing the Long Fresh-Nice project that the company has launched in the town of Adra (Almería).
The Long Fresh-Nice frozen plant is a pioneering project in the world, as it involves a perfect freezing and thawing process for fruits and vegetables with Nice Tech technology, 100% physical and without chemicals or additives, keeping all the organoleptic properties of these vegetables.
This patented technology allows the vegetable to retain all its vitality, nutrients, texture, water and flavor when it is defrosted. In this way, the useful life of the product is prolonged and its organoleptic properties remain intact. Thanks to this method, the vegetable is available at any time of the year, the prices of the sector are stabilized and waste is avoided in the transport of these goods.
The Long Fresh range of products has been recognized with the 2023 Restoration Flavor of the Year award after being assessed by 10 renowned chefs. This jury has been made up of 10 renowned chefs and chaired by the Master Chef of the Award, Àngels Puntas, chef trainer and director of the La Patente cooking school.
The members of the jury valued the products according to their interest, practicality, taste and overall satisfaction. The products that have received the award are those that have obtained the highest score. During the evaluation, the chefs made different recipes, giving it an overall satisfaction rating of outstanding and indicating that 90% of the chefs would use it with total security in their future preparations.
In addition, one of the aspects to highlight was the practicality of the range itself, giving it a score of 9.7, which places it as one of the most innovative and sustainable catering products on the market, since among its many advantages is the to combat food waste.
The award collection took place this morning at the Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, where the head of Communication for La Unión, Belén González, highlighted that "thanks to innovative food solutions such as the Long Fresh range, we can enjoy a product fresh with the advantages that it presents in frozen, and that many times determine current consumption patterns”.
This new technology uses a 100% physical process, which does not include chemical products or preservatives and its main advantage over traditional frozen food is the quality of the food, since it maintains the same properties in the thawed products as on the day they were collected and prepared.
"Being able to advance in offering local products of the highest quality and fighting against food waste is another of the differentiating elements of 'Long Fresh'; with our range all kinds of losses are avoided since what reaches the customer is a net product and ready to consume”.
Among the products in the award-winning range are products such as tomato, purple and white onion, red, green, yellow and chocolate peppers, cucumber and pico de gallo; all of them in different formats for catering, thus avoiding the loss of product and dimensioned to guarantee the profitability of the product, offering the exact weight of the same unlike what happens in the marketing of fresh, where the weight of the product does not correspond to the of the use thereof.
A technology that is capable of stopping time; It turns perishable foods into imperishable ones, eliminating oxidation and seasonality, allowing you to enjoy fruit and vegetables just as fresh all year round.
La Unión Long Fresh has a wide catalog of peeled and cut products according to customer needs (cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, melon, pineapple...), and sells them in different packaging formats (one-kilo bags, 2.5 kg or in boxes of 10 kg). State-of-the-art technology that allows you to offer the best of fresh and frozen at the same time
