Shuman Produce Launches RealSweet Peruvian Sweet Onion Season

Reidsville, GA – This month Shuman Produce has officially launched the RealSweet® Peruvian sweet onion season, which dovetails the RealSweet® Vidalia® onion season to provide customers with sweet onions year-round.

Shuman Produce began growing sweet onions in Peru decades ago due to the high demand of RealSweet® Vidalia onions. Peru provides the ideal climate conditions outside of Vidalia onion season for truly sweet onions that are available during fall and winter months. With our Peruvian farms, we can meet consumer demand for sweet onions from September to February.

The Peruvian sweet onion is nearly identical to the Vidalia onion in terms of taste, sweetness and color, with the characteristic flat, granex shape of a true sweet onion that consumers recognize as a premium sweet onion.

Food safety is always a priority for Shuman Produce, and all onions carrying the RealSweet® label are held to the same high safety standards. RealSweet® onions meet or exceed all PTI requirements, maintain a four-star rating with Primus Labs and are 100% in compliance with 15 different certifications.

“The popularity of the Vidalia onion has created strong demand for our Peruvian sweet onions,” said John Shuman, president of Shuman Produce. “The RealSweet® Peruvian sweet onion offers the same sweet taste as our Vidalia onions that we know consumers love, both from our research and feedback from retailers and food service. We’re looking forward to another great Peruvian sweet onion season.”

For more information on RealSweet® Peruvian sweet onions, connect with Shuman Produce at Southern Innovations Symposium in Williamsburg and visit booth #3213 at PMA Fresh Summit in Orlando or visit realsweet.com.

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About Shuman Produce, Inc.:

Headquartered in the center of the Vidalia® growing region in southeast Georgia, family-owned Shuman Produce has been in the sweet onion industry for more than 30 years. The legacy began in the mid-1980s with a small family farm in Reidsville, GA and today has become a leading grower and shipper of sweet onions. Shuman Produce prides itself on providing only the sweetest, highest quality and safest produce available. For more information, visit realsweet.com.

Source: Shuman Produce, Inc.