Organic Produce or Fresh Produce

 What will you choose for your delivery of produce in Honolulu, organic produce or fresh produce? There are many sides to the discussion. The discussion has been going on for some time and looks to continue into the future.

 Whether you have your fresh produced delivered, you make your selection in the store, or choose at a local farmers market in Honolulu, it is good to become more informed.

Fresh Organic Produce

Food safety concerns and also the interest in organically grown produce have elevated considerably within the U.S. during the last decade. Key variations in lifestyle qualities, food safety attitudes and values, perceived food safety risks, and valuation of lessening health risks between organic and conventional food purchasers remain largely unknown, however.Overall, just paying attention as to healthy portions, handling of fresh produce and being more concerned with quality would go far supplementing family diets with fresh local produce, organic produce, or balanced diets of fresh produce from any source. The FDA has plenty of information on selecting, storing, and preparing Fresh Produce.

To help characterize how purchasers of fresh organic produce vary from their conventional alternatives, over seven hundred food shoppers were polled from 10 major stores within the Boston area. Survey results reveal that self-reported organic purchasers are more inclined than conventional purchasers to interact in a number of health-marketing and eco-friendly actions. Organic purchasers have less faith in federal food safety agencies than are conventional purchasers, and see greater benefits connected with organically grown produce compared to their conventional alternatives. Also, organic purchasers have considerably greater awareness of risk compared to conventional purchasers regarding food safety hazards connected with traditionally grown produce.

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Honolulu Fresh Produce

Ham Produce and Seafood provides Honolulu fresh produce year round. Our main focus is on building the better relationships with local growers for fresh produce and organic produce. Though we cannot supply all of our clients need with only local produce, we strive to support the farmers as much as possible to help build a larger supply of locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables.

Both fresh fruits and fresh vegetables very in supply whether local or mainland through out the year, but this commitment to the local produce is helps to increase the demand for local farmers. Having local farmers in the supply chain helps us to keep a better variety of super fresh produce and has allowed us to keep the supply chain moving through all of these years.
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 Local Produce

Though the local per ca pita consumption of local produce has dropped over the past 50 years, it is difficult to measure the real production changes considering the statistics over the past 50 years have included things like sugar or pineapple which were high volume crops and have all but disappeared . Tourism has gone up over 50 years and the large volume agriculture crops has dwindled. Through awareness and support of local farmers and crops, the we can all do our best to support Hawaii’s security and our own health by buying local produce as much as possible.

 Locally Grown

Most people do not know beyond Mangoes, bananas, papayas, and pineapples really what all fresh produce Hawaii grows.

There are many vegetables which grow in Hawaii. The nice thing with Hawaii is, vegetables like so many other plants will grow and produce year round. Many visitors would never know the variety of onions, eggplant, corn, celery, carrots, cabbage, lettuce and herbs we grow here in the island. Even spinach, squash, radishes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and never forget the Taro are part of the local crop.

Sometimes tourists drive by and see a fruit stand where there are farm fresh local produce, but usually they are looking for the typical Hawaiian produce- pineapple, papayas, and mangoes. But, even many local people do not know the variety of fresh vegetables which are available on island. Besides the typical fruits Hawaii is known for producing, the melons, oranges, tangerines, and strawberries aren’t in really big production, but are still a very tasty local treat.