加州开心果 健康休闲食品的新宠

Californian pistachios, a new favor as healthy snack

随着全球对肥胖趋势的日渐关注，纯天然、健康、不含人工添加剂的休闲食品越来越受到消费者的青睐，开心果就是其中之一。

Increased awareness of food safety and healthy food has lead consumers to seek natural, 'whole,' nutritious, healthier snack options worldwide. Pistachios are one such snack. The pistachio is not only delicious but also abundant in nutrition, fibers and vitamins. Meanwhile, the pistachio, one of natural and healthy snack foods, also features low fat, low calorie and high fiber. In recent years, global consumption of pistachio has been on the rise. China is one of the fastest growing pistachio consuming markets. The relevant statistics showed the country' s annual consumption of pistachios has reached 50,000 tons. As a world' s leading player in the pistachio industry, Paramount Farms has been committed to the research and development for the purpose of guaranteeing the natural quality and food safety of Californian pistachios. Its advanced tech-nologies and rich experiences serve as assurance to the healthy development of the pistachio industry. Paramount Farms is vertically integrated control-ling all aspects of its business in- eluding growing, harvesting, processing and packaging. The company is focused on quality assurance and food safety and has in-vested significantly in technology, talent and resources to manage its programs in-house. Operations include a comprehensive quality assurance program that consistently exceeds USDA specifications and international regulatory requirements. In fact, Paramount Farms is the only nut supplier with an ISO 17025 certified lab. Paramount Farms entered the China market in 2007, and has established important relations with such local coopera-tive partners as Qiaqia and the Huiji Food. Up till now, Paramount Farms has exported a total of 10,000 tons of pistachios to China's Hong Kong and the mainland regions. Their mid-term goal is to increase their sales volume in the Chinese market to more than 68,000 tons within the next five years, and to assist relevant departments to set up relevant industrial standards, especially on the supervision and inspec-tion mechanism in the sphere of food safety, so as to safeguard the healthy and orderly development of the pistachio market in China.