- Applications:Bakery, Dairy, Convenience Foods
- Product Families:Vegetable Products & Extracts, Whole Foods, Extracts & Premixes
- End Uses:Dairy Products, Cheese, Salad Dressing
Field-fresh green and white leeks are a sweet and mild onion, sorted, washed, trimmed, and air dried. Then, various cleaning, sorting, and food safety steps are conducted, prior to cutting or milling into the desired cut size. Silva’s production facility is an FSSC22000 certified operation. The fresh raw material is grown mainly throughout Chile, China, Poland, and Germany. Steam sterilization can be added for microbiological reduction or to introduce a validated kill step. This ingredient category is available as all-natural, as well as non-GMO verification.