Virtually every type of fruit and vegetable has been processed into a value-added product in recent years, as growers and processors rush to meet the rapidly growing demand for the convenience they offer consumers. Until now, one vegetable seems to have been left out: artichokes.
Ocean Mist Farms, murimi mukuru werudzi rweArtichoke, akazadza chisipo neindasitiri yekutanga microwaveable artichoke, chigadzirwa chinogona kubatsira kuwedzera mukurumbira wemuriwo uku uchipa kurerukirwa patsva mukubika.
Inouya pazvitsitsinho zvezvido kubva kune vatengesi nevatengi vachikumbira artichoke iyo iri nyore kugadzirira.
"Takagamuchira mibvunzo mumakore apfuura kubva kune vatengi vedu vezvitoro nevatengi vedu nezve microwaveable artichoke," akadaro Kori Tuggle, director wezvekushambadzira nekusimudzira bhizinesi kuOcean Mist Farms. "Ongororo yevatengi yakatiudza kuti vatengi vazhinji vanoona kugadzirira kweartichokes sechipingamupinyi chikuru pakutenga."
Kunyangwe nevatengi uye zvikumbiro zvevatengesi zveiyo artichoke itsva, pakanga pachine mubvunzo wekuti pakanga paine kudiwa kwakakura kwakakwana kwechigadzirwa uye kana chaizotengesa. Kambani iyi yakatanga chirongwa chekutengesa zvishoma kuchamhembe kweCalifornia zvitoro zvekutengesa munguva yechirimo 2011 artichoke kuti iedze chigadzirwa uye yakaona kuti pakanga paine kufarira. Paive zvakare nekugamuchirwa kwakanaka kweindasitiri pavakaburitsa chigadzirwa chitsva pa Gadzira Marketing Association's (PMA) Kokorodzano Itsva yeSummit muAtlanta October apfuura.
"Takagamuchira mhinduro yakanaka kubva kuindasitiri paFresh Summit, iri yekutanga yechigadzirwa chayo chechikamu cheartichoke," akadaro Tuggle.
Ichi chigadzirwa chakagamuchirawo PMA's National Award yeInnovative Packaging pagungano. Chinhu chakakosha mukureruka kwechigadzirwa chitsva, iyo pasuru ine maviri artichokes anocheneswa uye akachekwa. Inopfuura hafu yenguva yekugadzirira inobviswa, iyo inonyanya kukosha kune vatengi pane dzakasimba zvirongwa kana avo vasina kumbonakidzwa neartichoke muhupenyu hwavo uye vasingazive pekutangira.
"Kubva pakutanga, taiziva kuti taifanira kuita kuti paki nyowani ive isina kunetsekana pasina kugadzirira, uye nguva pfupi yekubika uye ruzivo rwekudya rwakanaka," akadaro Tuggle. "(Iyo) mukana wekukwezva vatengi vanonyimwa nguva uye vanoda nzira inokurumidza yekubika artichoke nyowani, kana kutyisidzirwa navo nekuti havazive kuchenesa kana kugadzirira artichoke nyowani."
Chimwe chinhu chiri mupakeji ndeye zip-lock chisimbiso chinoita kuti vatengi vakwanise mwaka zvirimo pamberi pe microwaving.
"Tinoziva kukwanisa kupa mutengi kutonga kuti sei uye chii chinoshandiswa kuravira artichoke chingave chinhu chakakosha pakutenga kudzokorora," akadaro.
Iyo artichokes yakarongerwa kuburitswa kwekutengesa gore rino, pasina hurongwa hwazvino hwekudya.
Ocean Mist Farms yanga ichikura artichokes pakati peCalifornia kubvira 1924, apo Daniel Pieri, Alfred Tottino, James Bellone naAmerigo naAngelo Del Chiaro vakagadzira California Artichoke & Vegetable Growers Corp. muCastroville, yakatumidzwa zita rekuti Ocean Mist Farms muna 1995.
Mashandiro achiri akazvipira zvakanyanya kune artichokes, asi kambani yakawedzera kuita zvinhu zvitsva mumakore achangopfuura zvinosanganisira broccoli, asparagus, Brussels inomera, cardone, cauliflower, celery, fava bhinzi, fennel, green hanyanisi, sipinashi uye akati wandei lettuce. Yakawanda inotengeswa yakawanda; iyo microwaveable artichokes inoisa chiratidzo chekambani mune zvakaputirwa, zvakakosha-zvakawedzerwa zvigadzirwa.
Ocean Mist inogadzira uye inotengesa yayo yega stock. Iyo kambani inosimbiswa kuburikidza neCalifornia Leafy Greens Handler Marketing Agreement, uye ine runyorwa rwemaitiro akanaka ekurima kuti ave nechokwadi chekutevedzwa kwekuchengetedza chikafu.
Iyo kambani inozvitsanangura "yakakwana nzira" yekuchengetedza chikafu inotanga mumunda, ine yakadzama yekuongorora njodzi yemunda wega wega usati wadyarwa. Vashandi vanotevedzerawo hutsanana maitiro uye vanoongorora hutsanana uye kuchengetedzwa kwemidziyo yese panguva yekurima.
Chirongwa chakabatanidzwa chekuchengetedza zvipembenene chinotarisa masora, zvirwere uye zvipembenene kuderedza makemikari panguva yekugadzira. Mvura yekudiridza inoyedzwa zvakanyanya isati yaiswa, uye kambani inoramba ichidzidzisa vashandi mumatanho ehutsanana anogadzirisa kusvibiswa kwemuchinjiko, kuchengetedza chikafu uye hutsanana.
Vashandi vari munzvimbo dzekugadziridza vanotevera maitiro akanaka ekugadzira uye kuongororwa kwengozi yakakosha mapoinzi ekudzora, ayo anosanganisira hutsanana hwezuva nezuva hwemidziyo.
Kambani iyi yakaita chirongwa chekutarisa kwezvakatipoteredza chinoshandisa ongororo seimwe nzira yekuona hutsanana isati yagadziriswa.
Iyo inotonhora cheni ndeimwe nzira iyo kambani inosimudzira kuchengetedzwa kwechikafu uye mhando, uye Ocean Mist Farms inotora matanho ekuona kuti cheni haina kutyorwa. Chigadzirwa chinotonhodzwa mukati memaawa mana ekukohwa uye chinochengetwa pa34˚ F, chobva chaendeswa kunzvimbo dzekufambisa mumarori anefiriji. Iwo anotonhorera ane mitemo yakasimba yehutsanana inoraira kushandiswa kwemagurovhosi anoraswa pakubata chigadzirwa, maforklift emagetsi kudzivirira kupera kwehutsi muzvinotonhorera uye mvura inonwiwa yekutonhodza, sekureva kwekambani.
"Tiri kuramba tichitsvaga nzira nyowani dzekuwedzera nekuwedzera kukosha kune izvo zvatinopa kune vatengi vedu nevatengi," Tuggle akadaro.