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As plant-based meals sales increase, Side Delights® offers shoppers festive solutions San Francisco, CA (November 14, 2019) – Plant-based meals sales grew by 28 percent and were worth 210 million dollars in 2018, signaling a trend that isn’t slowing down in 20191. Shoppers who are embracing plant-based or plant-heavy diets face challenges during the holiday season were turkey, ham, and beef reign. Side Delights® has curated a few wine and potato pairings to offer delicious alternatives to traditional holiday dining. Popular Champagne site The Fat Cork, recommends homemade oven fries or thick-cut potato...
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Side Delights® educates consumers about locally grown potatoes with immersive virtual reality videos and engaging podcast series. San Francisco, CA (October 1, 2019) – Side Delights® announced today a cutting-edge virtual reality (VR) video and podcast-based program that invites consumers to step into our potato fields and experience for themselves why our potatoes are “Grown Where it Matters”.  Visitors to Fresh Solutions Network booth #3940 at PMA Fresh Summit in Anaheim, CA will enjoy a sneak preview of the VR videos with 3D goggles that immerse viewers in the unique...
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Side Delights® partners with local food bloggers to tell the story about their potato farm and share favorite potato recipes San Francisco, CA (September 16, 2019) – Side Delights® announced today the “Adopt a Potato Farmer” program to generate grassroots awareness with food bloggers and their audiences to the importance of the locality of each partner in Fresh Solutions Network.  The program paired regional food bloggers with Network farmers to share their stories about growing Side Delights®potatoes.  In turn, the blogger shared their stories and farm favorite recipes with their...
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Side Delights® provides shoppers with the potato products they love, while supporting the trends they are creating San Francisco, CA (August 28, 2019) – Side Delights® fresh potato products respond to the 2019 top trends of convenience, organic, plant-based, regional flavors, and foods for sensitive stomachs in their portfolio of products.  These trends are driving retail grocers into competition with the foodservice sector as well as with each other. Grocery stores benefit by providing shoppers with creative assortment options addressing the leading food trends. Let’s see how this plays out:...
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Side Delights® offers consumers a way to stay healthy and happy with a variety of potato products for side-dishes and beyond San Francisco, CA  (July 18, 2019) – Side Delights® shared trending findings on how potatoes and other vegetables may actually help make people happy.  The link to diet and depression has become an increasingly hot topic following the American Psychiatric Association’s 2019 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, where medical experts presented research showing that the Mediterranean-style diet, associated with a reduced risk of cancer and longevity, may also help...
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Side Delights® responds to shoppers increasing demand for sustainability practices while continuing to ensure food safety San Francisco, CA (June 4, 2019) – Side Delights® announced today it heightened commitment to sustainability while continuing to focus on implementing the highest food-safety practices available. Recent Nielsen research confirms that shoppers base their purchase decisions in part on the sustainability practices of products and the companies that produce them.  The study shows that sustainable efforts are crucial to Millennial shoppers.1 68% of consumers feel strongly that companies should help improve the environment...
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Side Delights® launches “A Week’s Worth of Yum!” program San Francisco, CA (May 14, 2019) – Side Delights® potato farmers have teamed up with mushroom growers to create an in-store promotion with seven original recipes for “A Week’s Worth of Yum.”  The program includes a point-of-sale merchandiser with a tear-off recipe card featuring a recipe and a URL to download the Week’s Worth of Yum e-book. Potatoes and mushrooms work naturally together to create a nutritious twist, added texture and a depth of flavor to consumer favorites like macaroni and...
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SIDE DELIGHTS® SOLVES CONSUMER’S CONVENIENCE CHALLENGE San Francisco, CA (March 28, 2019) – Side Delights® offer consumers ease in packaging, preparation, and meal planning giving them back some of the time they need and driving them into stores.  Consumers are becoming busier, more stressed, and information overload increases. As a result, their need for ease and simplicity also grows.  According to Nielsen, consumers are feeling more stretched than ever before, and are striving for convenient solutions to help simplify their busy lives. The study showed that 27% of consumers were...
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Side Delights® offers consumers healthy and convenient menu options for 2019 as plant-based food trends continue and retail potato sales top $11 billion in 2018 San Francisco, CA  (February 13, 2019)– Side Delights®supports the growing Food as Medicineand plant-based menu movement to help treat and prevent chronic illness. Naturally plant-based, Side Delights®fresh potatoes creates lines of healthy and flavorful value-added kits, gourmet, convenience, organic, fresh-cut and bagged potatoes. The trend is making an impact at the store level, with a 20% growth increase in plant-based food at retail and plant-based foods dollar...
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Convenient potato products provide sports fans and athletes with hearty healthy side dishes San Francisco, CA  (08/23/18)–– The Green Bay Packers reportedly created the term tailgating in 1919. They used this to describe the activity of fans with pick up trucks packed with foods such as “ham, potatoes, and custards and enjoyed them from the back of the truck with the ‘tailgate’ down.1” Nearly a century later, tailgating has evolved, but one thing has stood the test of time as America’s number one side dish – Potatoes. Tailgating is no longer...
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