In a world where health-conscious choices are becoming more prevalent, the demand for nutrient-dense foods has skyrocketed. Enter WP Produce, a company dedicated to delivering the finest tropical fruits that not only satisfy your taste buds but also provide a plethora of health benefits. Join us as we dive into the world of superfoods packed into the Tropical Fruit Box and get to know one of the master minds behind this nutritious endeavor, Desiree Morales, Vice President of WP Produce and Founder of Tropical Fruit Box. 

Transcript

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[Lori Taylor]: Okay, everybody. Welcome back.

It’s the produce mom’s podcast. I’m Laurie

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Taylor. I love being the host

of this show week after week. We’re able to

 

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[Lori Taylor]: bring you some amazing stories

of people who are just making the world a better

 

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[Lori Taylor]: place, getting more fruits and

vegetables on every table. And as you know,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: we’re celebrating the theme of

superfoods right now here on the produce mom’s

 

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[Lori Taylor]: podcast. And when we think about

superfoods, like one of the things that we’ve

 

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[Lori Taylor]: talked about time and time again,

and some of our previous episodes in the series

 

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[Lori Taylor]: is like, okay. Yeah, you can

have the healthiest food in the world, but

 

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[Lori Taylor]: if no one wants to eat it, who

cares? Right. Um, so today’s guest is totally

 

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[Lori Taylor]: opposite of that barrier. Like

we are not talking about the super bitter,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: uh, you know, kales and leafy

greens and things that people are like gross

 

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[Lori Taylor]: were actually, it’s quite the

opposite we’re talking all about tropical fruits

 

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[Lori Taylor]: today and a category of the produce

department that is just skyrocketing in consumer

 

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[Lori Taylor]: interest as well as retail placement.

And I think you’re all going to be quite surprised

 

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[Lori Taylor]: to learn about some of the really

cool nutritional properties and why we at the

 

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[Lori Taylor]: produce moms view the entire

tropical fruit category as superfoods. So today’s

 

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[Lori Taylor]: guest, of course, I went and

resource the, the circle that I hold the closest.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: I went right to my friend Desiree

Morales. She and her family have been in the

 

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[Lori Taylor]: tropical fruit business for over

40 years. Their business. which is WP produce

 

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[Lori Taylor]: is headquartered in Miami, Florida,

um, which, gosh, if you’ve been to Miami, like

 

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[Lori Taylor]: there’s no more tropical place.

Sorry, Hawaii, but like you go to Miami and

 

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[Lori Taylor]: you’re like, I’m suddenly, um,

a Latina, you know, that’s how I feel. But

 

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[Lori Taylor]: it is, it is such a great place

to celebrate all things tropical. And that

 

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[Lori Taylor]: is where WP produce is headquartered

Desiree herself. serves as the vice president

 

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[Lori Taylor]: of WP Produce. They are home

of the Desbre brand. So you’ve probably seen

 

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[Lori Taylor]: on our website and through other

things that we’ve done at the Produce Moms,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Desbre Tropical Avocados or Desbre

Avocados, that is Desiree and her family behind

 

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[Lori Taylor]: that brand. Desi has also been

on the Produce Moms podcast before. So it’s

 

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[Lori Taylor]: always fun to welcome back a

guest to this show and super cool. thing about

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Desi, she is also a founder.

So Desiree founded tropicalfruitbox.com. So

 

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[Lori Taylor]: we’re also gonna talk to her

about her founder journey and how she has made

 

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[Lori Taylor]: tropical fruits far more accessible

for all households across America. So it’s

 

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[Lori Taylor]: gonna be a great show. Desiree,

welcome back to the Produce Moms podcast. We’re

 

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[Lori Taylor]: glad you’re here.

 

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[Desiree]: Thank you so much, Lori, for real,

for

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Thank

 

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[Desiree]: that

 

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[Lori Taylor]: you.

 

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[Desiree]: great introduction. Thank you, and

thank you for having us back on.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yes,

 

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[Desiree]: It’s

 

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[Lori Taylor]: it’s

 

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[Desiree]: always

 

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[Lori Taylor]: gonna be

 

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[Desiree]: a

 

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[Lori Taylor]: so

 

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[Desiree]: pleasure

 

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[Lori Taylor]: great.

 

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[Desiree]: and fun talking to you.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Thank you.

 

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[Desiree]: Yes, thank

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Well,

 

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[Desiree]: you.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: it’s going to be great. So introduce

yourself for the folks who have not tuned into

 

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[Lori Taylor]: your previous episodes here on

the produce moms podcast, introduce yourself,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: introduce WP produce and tropical

fruit box.

 

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[Desiree]: Okay, so I’m Desiree Morales. I’m

vice president of WP Produce. It’s a family

 

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[Desiree]: business. And then Tropical Fruit

Box is a company that was born because of COVID.

 

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[Desiree]: So we’ll get into that. And that’s

pretty much my introduction. A little bit about

 

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[Desiree]: WP Produce is it was founded by my

dad, Willy Pardo. He’s still very much involved

 

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[Desiree]: and still running the show. So getting

up and there extremely early, but it’s really

 

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[Desiree]: what he loves. All of us love it.

We all grew around it.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

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[Desiree]: So we say it’s work, but for us,

it’s really not.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah, it’s

 

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[Desiree]: WP

 

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[Lori Taylor]: family culture.

 

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[Desiree]: Specialized, yes, it

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

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[Desiree]: really is. Like it’s not work. It’s

not at all.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

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[Desiree]: It doesn’t have an off time. It doesn’t

have an on time. It’s just what we all do.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Right? I love

 

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[Desiree]: Thinking

 

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[Lori Taylor]: it.

 

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[Desiree]: about doing about, you know, and

it’s also food. I think almost everyone in

 

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[Desiree]: the food category can relate to that.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

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[Desiree]: It’s just around us, you know, but

WP Produce was founded by my father almost

 

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[Desiree]: 40 years ago. It’ll be 40 years next

year. And It’s a niche produce company. It’s

 

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[Desiree]: all about tropicals and exotic fruits.

Our main item is the tropical avocado, which

 

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[Desiree]: is that really large avocado that

I

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

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[Desiree]: know you’ve been lucky to try

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Naturally,

 

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[Desiree]: and have.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: yeah, naturally family-sized

is a great way to describe it.

 

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[Desiree]: Yes, yes, yes. Here in Florida, it’s

very common to us because it is the avocado

 

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[Desiree]: that grows in Florida.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: For sure.

 

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[Desiree]: And that avocado has our brand on

it, the Desbre brand, which really we put our

 

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[Desiree]: brand on all our premium produce

and

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

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[Desiree]: that we’ve been sourcing for a long

time with the same growers and the same families

 

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[Desiree]: overseas, also

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Mm-hmm.

 

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[Desiree]: here in Florida. And That’s WP. WP

is Desbrey. Tropical Fruit Box is also Desbrey

 

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[Desiree]: Produce, but we are getting into

sourcing very exotic things

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Mm-hmm.

 

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[Desiree]: that they don’t have the Desbrey

brand yet. And Tropical Fruit Box really is

 

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[Desiree]: a company made out of demand. We

saw demand in the marketplace. These tropical

 

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[Desiree]: fruits are easy to come by here in

Florida or in the southeast of the United States,

 

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[Desiree]: but when you travel elsewhere, they’re

not readily available in

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

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[Desiree]: the supermarket that you shop at.

So with COVID, it kind of opened a door to

 

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[Desiree]: that market. And we’re still selling

direct to consumer via Tropical

 

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[Desiree]: growing year after year and the product

line is also growing because

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Love

 

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[Desiree]: it’s

 

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[Desiree]: about customers demanding different

fruits.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah. Well, and like I said in

the intro, tropical fruits are undoubtedly

 

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[Lori Taylor]: on, on the rise in terms of consumer

demand. You can probably speak more eloquently

 

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[Lori Taylor]: to that than I can, you know,

sitting as the vice president of a company

 

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[Lori Taylor]: that’s all about tropical fruits,

but, um, you know, some of the stuff that,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: that is part of your, your day

to day outbound, you know, purchase orders,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: it’s, those are items that would

have been considered extreme exotics, you know,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: when I look back on my days at

the sales desk, you know, even as the shopper

 

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[Lori Taylor]: journey, like there were there,

it was not that long ago, we’re in the Midwest,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: I’d walk into a grocery store

and I couldn’t find a fresh papaya. You know,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: those are, you know, and that’s

pretty, that’s pretty much a mainstream tropical

 

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[Lori Taylor]: fruit, you know. Um, but there

there’s definitely and I think that all sorts

 

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[Lori Taylor]: of things have contributed to

that demand. I mean, one thing I tell people

 

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[Lori Taylor]: is, you know, like that. the

dragon fruit drink at Starbucks, that undoubtedly

 

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[Lori Taylor]: contributed to the demand for

the Pattaya or the dragon fruits, you know,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: that you’re selling. Yes,

 

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[Desiree]: Absolutely.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: and so it’s really amazing. I

also think that the content creators and the

 

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[Lori Taylor]: accessibility that people have

to getting more adventurous with their food

 

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[Lori Taylor]: or just being introduced to new

foods that haven’t been part of their personal

 

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[Lori Taylor]: culture or even their local access.

Um, that’s, I think that all contributes to

 

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[Lori Taylor]: the rising awareness as well

as demand for the tropical category.

 

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[Desiree]: Absolutely.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Okay, well I gotta ask you the

question we’re asking everyone who’s a guest

 

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[Lori Taylor]: on this miniseries. How do you

define a superfood, Desi?

 

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[Desiree]: So to me, a superfood is something

that has a lot of nutritional value. And I

 

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[Desiree]: think that a superfood should be

easy to eat.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

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[Desiree]: And that’s to me a superfood and

to me it’s tropical fruit.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Right. Okay. So we’re going to,

let’s talk about these tropical fruits. So

 

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[Lori Taylor]: like why? I mean, it is easy

to eat. Like it’s, you know, it doesn’t have

 

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[Lori Taylor]: that stringent or a, you know,

highly like earthy flavor that some of these

 

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[Lori Taylor]: superfood veggies have, or some

of the roots, you know, that we’ve talked about

 

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[Lori Taylor]: in this series, but tell us more

about specific varieties. Like why, why do

 

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[Lori Taylor]: you consider your tropical avocados?

superfoods, like where do, and then dive deeper

 

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[Lori Taylor]: into them if you want, talk about

where you’re, where they’re grown, your sourcing

 

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[Lori Taylor]: behaviors and any sort of consumption

trends you want to share.

 

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[Desiree]: Okay, so let’s start with tropical

avocado because not only is that my favorite,

 

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[Desiree]: it’s the number one in our books.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yes. You

 

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[Desiree]: To

 

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[Lori Taylor]: know,

 

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[Desiree]: us, that’s

 

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[Lori Taylor]: I’m glad you said number one

Desiree, because I’m going to, I want, this

 

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[Lori Taylor]: calls

 

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[Desiree]: It

 

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[Lori Taylor]: for

 

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[Desiree]: is.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: a point of emphasis and, and

a, one of the reasons WP produce is what it

 

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[Lori Taylor]: is today. One of the reasons

they’re celebrating 40 years in business, they

 

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[Lori Taylor]: are the number one importer of

tropical avocados. Um, and so that is quite

 

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[Lori Taylor]: amazing. And not only is it the

ranches that your family is invested in. These

 

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[Lori Taylor]: are, you’re empowering small

scale farmers. throughout the tropical growing

 

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[Lori Taylor]: regions with market access to

the United States. That is amazing and something

 

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[Lori Taylor]: that warms my heart when I think

about WP as an operation.

 

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[Desiree]: Oh, thank you, Lori.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

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[Desiree]: And it’s true. I mean,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yes.

 

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[Desiree]: so many local farmers in Dominican

Republic in Florida, this is what they do.

 

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[Desiree]: This is what their families have

done.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Mm-hmm.

 

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[Desiree]: I mean, they’ve been

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Right?

 

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[Desiree]: growing this avocado for family generations.

And

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Right.

 

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[Desiree]: I’m lucky in the sense that I’m dealing

with multi-generational farmers and their kids

 

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[Desiree]: or their grandkids at some, sometimes

it’s the grandchildren.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

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[Desiree]: So it’s really, it’s a blessing what

we all do here. But the tropical avocado, the

 

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[Desiree]: reason I think it’s a super food

is it’s very high on potassium. It’s also a

 

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[Desiree]: fruit that when you compare it to

your regular, let’s say, I don’t wanna call

 

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[Desiree]: it has, but your regular has avocado,

the small ones, it oxidizes. It takes a lot.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

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[Desiree]: time for it to oxidize so it won’t

brown as quick.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Oxidation folks, totally normal

process. When you

 

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[Lori Taylor]: expose the flesh of the fruit

to ambient air or oxygen, the fruit starts

 

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[Lori Taylor]: the oxidation process which yields

a browning fruit.

 

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[Desiree]: Right.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: So it’s not just, this doesn’t

just happen. This isn’t like an avocado phenomenon.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: It happens with apples and other

fruits. Totally normal and natural, but it

 

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[Lori Taylor]: is amazing how the tropical avocado

as a variety or a type of avocados naturally

 

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[Lori Taylor]: slow to oxidize. Absolutely one

 

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[Desiree]: Yes.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: of my favorite reasons and one

of the reasons I choose tropical avocados.

 

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[Desiree]: Right and that’s why we say it’s

like it’s a family avocado because since it’s

 

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[Desiree]: you know delays oxidation or it’s

just slower to oxidize you can cut it today

 

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[Desiree]: and you can eat it tomorrow.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Mm-hmm.

 

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[Desiree]: So you can cut it have you know a

portion of it today and put it in the fridge

 

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[Desiree]: and eat the rest tomorrow. Um, we

also have manzanos that manzanos to me are

 

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[Desiree]: just that perfect size of fruit.

You

 

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[Lori Taylor]: so

 

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[Desiree]: it’s

 

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[Lori Taylor]: you

 

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[Lori Taylor]: have to define a monsohno. A

lot of people will have no idea what you’re

 

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[Desiree]: Okay, so manzano, it’s also called

apple banana. It’s a little

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yes.

 

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[Desiree]: bananas.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: different than a baby banana.

 

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[Desiree]: different than a baby banana. It’s

very similar to a regular banana. However,

 

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[Desiree]: it’s a little less sweet than a regular

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Mm-hmm.

 

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[Desiree]: banana.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Okay.

 

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[Desiree]: It’s about half the size of a banana.

So that to me is the perfect size. And for

 

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[Desiree]: a child, that’s the perfect serving

too. Because

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Mm-hmm.

 

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[Desiree]: sometimes kids aren’t going to have

an entire banana, they’re going to have half.

 

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[Desiree]: So…

 

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[Desiree]: now you’re not gonna waste that entire

banana.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Right. Well, and you know, it’s

you bring up a good point too about, you know,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: if we if we look at the terminology

of superfood out with a wider lens than just

 

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[Lori Taylor]: nutritional benefits, isn’t it

super that there’s not as much food waste with

 

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[Lori Taylor]: this variety of fruit? You know,

so there’s a lot of

 

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[Lori Taylor]: super properties with, you know,

some of the when you think outside the box

 

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[Lori Taylor]: or with a wider lens on the topic.

So fascinating. I love it. And you’re right.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: It is, it’s a like kind of a

squat ear version of a banana, but

 

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[Desiree]: Yes.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: it is the right. It’s a good

size.

 

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[Desiree]: It’s the perfect serving

 

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[Desiree]: device.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: All right. So what else you got?

 

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[Desiree]: Uh, so, oh, and manzano’s. So the

apple bananas come from Columbia. I didn’t

 

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[Desiree]: tell you where they came from.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Okay.

 

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[Desiree]: So they come from Columbia.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: And

 

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[Desiree]: Um.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: how would you describe the flavor?

Because there’s undoubtedly people who have

 

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[Lori Taylor]: never tried one. How would you,

you said it’s called an apple banana. Is that

 

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[Lori Taylor]: cause they taste like

 

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[Desiree]: It’s

 

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[Lori Taylor]: apples?

 

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[Desiree]: yes. Yes. I think that name is the

perfect name for it.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Okay.

 

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[Desiree]: It tastes like an apple and banana

had a baby.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Is it, does it have some of the,

does it change the texture? Like, is it kind

 

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[Lori Taylor]: of like how

 

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[Desiree]: Thank

 

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[Lori Taylor]: the

 

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[Desiree]: you,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Asian

 

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[Desiree]: Mr.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: pear has a, kind of has the granular

texture that, um, because they also call Asian

 

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[Lori Taylor]: pears, apple pears, um, due to

the flavor and you know, the pear lends itself

 

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[Lori Taylor]: to identifying the texture of

that fruit. But, um, do you feel like there’s,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: it’s a crunchier fruit, like

how apples are crunchier

 

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[Desiree]: No!

 

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[Lori Taylor]: or does it still have the texture

of a banana?

 

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[Desiree]: It still has a texture of a banana.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Okay, got it.

 

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[Desiree]: But it’s just not as sweet as a banana.

So maybe that’s where the apple comes in.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Mm-hmm.

 

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[Desiree]: Because

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

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[Desiree]: apples aren’t so sweet. You can have,

you know.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah. Okay. Well, let’s what’s

the next variety you’ve got on your list.

 

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[Desiree]: Guavas, I

 

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[Lori Taylor]: I

 

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[Desiree]: love

 

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[Lori Taylor]: love guavas.

 

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[Desiree]: guavas.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: I love guava

 

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[Desiree]: And they’re

 

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[Lori Taylor]: too.

 

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[Desiree]: so cute.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Pink or yellow?

 

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[Desiree]: They’re so cute for you. I like pink,

but we have

 

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[Lori Taylor]: And I

 

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[Desiree]: both,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: like,

 

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[Desiree]: but

 

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[Lori Taylor]: yeah, and

 

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[Desiree]: I

 

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[Lori Taylor]: I like

 

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[Desiree]: personally.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: yellow. Yeah. Interesting. Okay.

So tell us more about guavas.

 

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[Desiree]: So guavas are, I mean, the amount

of vitamin C in a guava?

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah, there’s super foods for

sure.

 

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[Desiree]: They are superfood. I mean, talk

about immunity that a guava, you know, is great

 

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[Desiree]: for you,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Mm-hmm.

 

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[Desiree]: both pink or white. It really doesn’t

matter. They’re both just loaded with vitamin

 

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[Desiree]: C and antioxidants. And fun fact

with guava is guava is only grown commercially

 

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[Desiree]: in Florida. So all the guava

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Oh.

 

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[Desiree]: that sells in the United States is

from Florida.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Florida. I had no

 

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[Desiree]: It

 

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[Lori Taylor]: idea.

 

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[Desiree]: all comes from Florida because

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

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[Desiree]: it is not an imported fruit.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Oh, is that due to probably USDA,

like the importing

 

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[Desiree]: Yes,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: laws?

 

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[Desiree]: there’s

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

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[Desiree]: a restriction on guavas probably

because of a fruit fly,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yeah, I was going

 

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[Desiree]: but

 

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[Lori Taylor]: to say a

 

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[Desiree]: Right,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: pest, a pest threat. Yeah. Okay.

I

 

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[Desiree]: yes

 

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[Lori Taylor]: did not know that, but I’m glad

you brought that up because there’s some people

 

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[Lori Taylor]: that talk about like Thai guava

versus, um, like Mexican guava, for instance.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: And I’m like, I don’t, I’ve said,

I, I’ve even said it. I’m like, I don’t know

 

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[Lori Taylor]: if I’ve ever had a Thai guava

and now I can probably say more than likely

 

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[Lori Taylor]: I have not correct.

 

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[Desiree]: Well, you’ve had a Thai guava variety

from Florida.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: It’s just been grown in Florida.

 

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[Desiree]: Yes,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Okay, got it.

 

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[Desiree]: yes. And the Thai guava, they call

it Thai guava, but it’s also called white guava.

 

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[Desiree]: It’s just a guava that’s white.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Okay, then what’s the yellow

one that I ate when I was in

 

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[Desiree]: That’s

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Mexico?

 

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[Desiree]: it. It’s

 

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[Lori Taylor]: That’s a-

 

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[Desiree]: probably it’s probably Thai guava.

I mean you have Thai guava, Chinese guava.

 

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[Desiree]: They’re all different varieties

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Got it.

 

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[Desiree]: but we call it white guava.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Okay, perfect.

 

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[Desiree]: You know.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: So soup, I knew that it was extremely

nutrient dense with vitamin C.

 

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[Desiree]: Yes.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: And I think everyone knows that

vitamin C is, honestly, a nod to our Florida

 

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[Lori Taylor]: citrus growers on people connecting

vitamin C with immunity. They did that really

 

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[Lori Taylor]: well to promote oranges. And

I think most people, when they think about

 

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[Lori Taylor]: vitamin C, they immediately think

of oranges, when there are in fact, dozens

 

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[Lori Taylor]: of other fruits and veggies that

carry higher vitamin C than oranges. And guava

 

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[Lori Taylor]: is certainly one of them. So

very interesting. All right. What’s the next

 

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[Lori Taylor]: variety we’re going to discuss?

 

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[Desiree]: Um, so we have jackfruit

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Okay,

 

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[Desiree]: as well.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: I love jackfruit. You know,

 

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[Desiree]: And

 

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[Lori Taylor]: do you

 

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[Desiree]: jackfruit.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: know, do you know, you should,

you probably know this, or maybe this is just

 

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[Desiree]: Maybe

 

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[Lori Taylor]: what some,

 

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[Desiree]: I don’t.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: I don’t know, we’ll see.

 

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[Desiree]: I’m always

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Do you

 

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[Desiree]: learning.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: know what gum is jackfruit flavored?

 

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[Desiree]: No.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Very mainstream, juicy fruit.

 

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[Desiree]: Really?

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Yes.

 

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[Desiree]: I did

 

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[Lori Taylor]: And,

 

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[Desiree]: not know that.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: and so that was, um, Frieda’s

produce, which is, you know, a West Coast

 

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[Desiree]: Yes.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: base, um, produce wholesaler

that specializes in tropic, tropicals and exotics.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: They were the ones who told me

that. And then now whenever I eat jackfruit,

 

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[Lori Taylor]: all I can taste is that juicy

fruit gum flavor, which I love because I like

 

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[Lori Taylor]: juicy fruit, but,

 

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[Desiree]: Yes!

 

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[Lori Taylor]: and I don’t really chew it anymore,

so it kind of takes me back to my childhood.

 

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[Lori Taylor]: Um, but yeah, that’s, that’s

a way that we can all kind of describe the

 

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00:18:32,593 –> 00:18:34,055

[Lori Taylor]: flavor of jackfruit. It’s

 

390

00:18:34,501 –> 00:18:34,601

[Desiree]: I

 

391

00:18:34,696 –> 00:18:35,017

[Lori Taylor]: juicy

 

392

00:18:34,882 –> 00:18:35,223

[Desiree]: did

 

393

00:18:35,057 –> 00:18:35,497

[Lori Taylor]: fruit gum

 

394

00:18:35,363 –> 00:18:35,845

[Desiree]: not,

 

395

00:18:35,537 –> 00:18:36,919

[Lori Taylor]: is jackfruit flavored. Yeah.

 

396

00:18:37,910 –> 00:18:39,134

[Desiree]: I did not know that.

 

397

00:18:39,713 –> 00:18:40,269

[Lori Taylor]: Well, now you do.

 

398

00:18:40,257 –> 00:18:42,884

[Desiree]: And jackfruit is, it’s actually really

high in fiber.

 

399

00:18:44,028 –> 00:18:47,773

[Lori Taylor]: And I can believe that, you know,

cause just the texture of it.

 

400

00:18:48,471 –> 00:18:48,765

[Desiree]: Yes?

 

401

00:18:48,474 –> 00:18:51,958

[Lori Taylor]: Um, and even the way it looks

like it almost looks a little fibrous, you

 

402

00:18:51,978 –> 00:18:52,319

[Lori Taylor]: know?

 

403

00:18:52,449 –> 00:18:52,611

[Desiree]: Yep.

 

404

00:18:52,699 –> 00:18:56,845

[Lori Taylor]: Um, so I can, I can believe that

now for people who aren’t familiar with jackfruit,

 

405

00:18:56,945 –> 00:19:00,750

[Lori Taylor]: Desiree explain to them. What

this fruit looks like.

 

406

00:19:01,821 –> 00:19:06,406

[Desiree]: I wish I actually had a really large

jackfruit that I took home the other day. I

 

407

00:19:06,566 –> 00:19:07,908

[Desiree]: wish I had it here so I could just

 

408

00:19:07,920 –> 00:19:08,220

[Lori Taylor]: Okay.

 

409

00:19:08,108 –> 00:19:08,388

[Desiree]: put it

 

410

00:19:08,420 –> 00:19:08,701

[Lori Taylor]: Well,

 

411

00:19:08,428 –> 00:19:08,508

[Desiree]: up.

 

412

00:19:08,981 –> 00:19:14,208

[Lori Taylor]: I saw one on, um, I saw one on

the Desbre Produce Instagram

 

413

00:19:13,877 –> 00:19:14,201

[Desiree]: Yes.

 

414

00:19:14,228 –> 00:19:20,536

[Lori Taylor]: page. So folks at Desbre, Desbre

Produce, and you can see this ginormous jackfruit

 

415

00:19:20,596 –> 00:19:22,499

[Lori Taylor]: that Desre is explaining. Okay.

 

416

00:19:22,853 –> 00:19:27,094

[Desiree]: It is, well that one was a 45 pound

jackfruit that

 

417

00:19:27,016 –> 00:19:27,317

[Lori Taylor]: Right.

 

418

00:19:27,154 –> 00:19:27,534

[Desiree]: literally.

 

419

00:19:28,420 –> 00:19:31,369

[Lori Taylor]: So one piece of fruit and it’s

bigger than Desiree.

 

420

00:19:33,897 –> 00:19:39,039

[Desiree]: Yes, yes, huge. So I had to take

it home and

 

421

00:19:37,791 –> 00:19:38,080

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

422

00:19:39,079 –> 00:19:45,662

[Desiree]: show it to my kids. It was amazing.

But jackfruit, it’s a really large fruit. It’s

 

423

00:19:45,742 –> 00:19:50,184

[Desiree]: green on the outside. It’s spiky.

You’re kind of just like when it’s ripe, you

 

424

00:19:50,204 –> 00:19:55,930

[Desiree]: could tear it up with your hands.

You’d tear it open. And it’s just one piece

 

425

00:19:55,971 –> 00:19:58,632

[Desiree]: of fruit can literally be 40 pounds.

 

426

00:19:59,072 –> 00:19:59,315

[Lori Taylor]: Right.

 

427

00:19:59,552 –> 00:20:00,393

[Desiree]: You know, I would say

 

428

00:20:00,349 –> 00:20:00,490

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

429

00:20:00,433 –> 00:20:06,096

[Desiree]: the average jackfruit is probably

a 15 pound,

 

430

00:20:05,084 –> 00:20:06,167

[Lori Taylor]: Okay, well, I was gonna

 

431

00:20:06,136 –> 00:20:06,776

[Desiree]: 25

 

432

00:20:06,187 –> 00:20:07,131

[Lori Taylor]: say 25.

 

433

00:20:06,836 –> 00:20:07,196

[Desiree]: pounds.

 

434

00:20:07,231 –> 00:20:08,555

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah, so that’s, yeah.

 

435

00:20:08,377 –> 00:20:11,639

[Desiree]: 15 to 25 pounds, I would say is your

average

 

436

00:20:12,600 –> 00:20:14,821

[Lori Taylor]: still huge. We, you know, when

you think

 

437

00:20:14,620 –> 00:20:15,240

[Desiree]: jackfruit.

 

438

00:20:14,861 –> 00:20:19,564

[Lori Taylor]: about how you buy the quantities

in which you buy fruits or vegetables in the

 

439

00:20:19,604 –> 00:20:24,127

[Lori Taylor]: produce department, it’s kind

of like when you buy a 10 pound bag of potatoes,

 

440

00:20:24,147 –> 00:20:27,470

[Lori Taylor]: you’re like, Oh my gosh, this

is so many potatoes. So imagine picking up

 

441

00:20:27,490 –> 00:20:30,111

[Lori Taylor]: a 15, 25 or even 40 pound piece

of fruit.

 

442

00:20:30,701 –> 00:20:30,862

[Desiree]: Yeah.

 

443

00:20:30,752 –> 00:20:33,173

[Lori Taylor]: Um,

 

444

00:20:30,902 –> 00:20:31,124

[Desiree]: Right.

 

445

00:20:33,253 –> 00:20:39,858

[Lori Taylor]: okay. So Jack fruit is, I feel

like it’s kind of taken, um, the plant based

 

446

00:20:40,058 –> 00:20:46,273

[Lori Taylor]: movement by storm because it

It does have that natural flavor that is on

 

447

00:20:46,293 –> 00:20:50,234

[Lori Taylor]: the sweet side, but it’s not

overpoweringly. It’s not overpowering sweet.

 

448

00:20:50,294 –> 00:20:54,595

[Lori Taylor]: It’s just got this nice tropical

flavor to it. Again, if you like juicy fruit

 

449

00:20:54,615 –> 00:20:57,836

[Lori Taylor]: gum, you’re going to love jackfruit.

But

 

450

00:20:57,069 –> 00:20:58,176

[Desiree]: That’s true. I

 

451

00:20:58,116 –> 00:20:58,236

[Lori Taylor]: yeah,

 

452

00:20:58,237 –> 00:20:58,398

[Desiree]: love

 

453

00:20:58,256 –> 00:20:58,696

[Lori Taylor]: it became

 

454

00:20:58,418 –> 00:20:58,780

[Desiree]: the fact that

 

455

00:20:58,756 –> 00:21:05,038

[Lori Taylor]: very popular because it shreds.

You get the fruit and it kind of comes apart

 

456

00:21:05,098 –> 00:21:09,559

[Lori Taylor]: from the shell or the interior

part. And it’s like these pods and you pop

 

457

00:21:09,579 –> 00:21:14,221

[Lori Taylor]: the seed out of the pod. And

then you’re left with almost like a similar

 

458

00:21:14,321 –> 00:21:18,324

[Lori Taylor]: texture to pulled pork. And,

 

459

00:21:17,975 –> 00:21:18,164

[Desiree]: this.

 

460

00:21:18,684 –> 00:21:24,687

[Lori Taylor]: and, and it, and so people that

are looking to embrace a plant forward lifestyle

 

461

00:21:24,807 –> 00:21:29,450

[Lori Taylor]: or omit certain types of meat

from their diets, such as pork, but they still

 

462

00:21:29,510 –> 00:21:33,472

[Lori Taylor]: want like the barbecue pork,

you know, they want to satisfy that craving.

 

463

00:21:33,913 –> 00:21:38,635

[Lori Taylor]: They’ll do, they’ll do slow roasted

Jack fruit, like with barbecue sauce and.

 

464

00:21:38,877 –> 00:21:40,000

[Desiree]: and it’s delicious.

 

465

00:21:40,072 –> 00:21:42,034

[Lori Taylor]: It is unbelievably delicious.

Like I’ve

 

466

00:21:42,045 –> 00:21:42,126

[Desiree]: It

 

467

00:21:42,134 –> 00:21:42,375

[Lori Taylor]: ordered

 

468

00:21:42,226 –> 00:21:42,447

[Desiree]: is.

 

469

00:21:42,415 –> 00:21:42,515

[Lori Taylor]: it

 

470

00:21:42,467 –> 00:21:43,891

[Desiree]: It

 

471

00:21:42,535 –> 00:21:43,636

[Lori Taylor]: before and you don’t

 

472

00:21:43,951 –> 00:21:44,272

[Desiree]: really

 

473

00:21:43,977 –> 00:21:44,277

[Lori Taylor]: like at

 

474

00:21:44,332 –> 00:21:44,432

[Desiree]: is.

 

475

00:21:44,337 –> 00:21:47,661

[Lori Taylor]: restaurants and you really don’t

miss the meat and that’s,

 

476

00:21:47,849 –> 00:21:47,989

[Desiree]: you

 

477

00:21:47,902 –> 00:21:48,863

[Lori Taylor]: you know,

 

478

00:21:48,049 –> 00:21:48,429

[Desiree]: don’t.

 

479

00:21:48,923 –> 00:21:49,163

[Lori Taylor]: yeah.

 

480

00:21:49,291 –> 00:21:55,179

[Desiree]: It’s crazy that it tastes so similar

and I guess the texture how it cooks for you

 

481

00:21:55,199 –> 00:21:57,242

[Desiree]: know quite some time it really the

 

482

00:21:57,262 –> 00:21:57,384

[Lori Taylor]: I-

 

483

00:21:57,283 –> 00:21:57,663

[Desiree]: texture

 

484

00:21:57,425 –> 00:21:57,648

[Lori Taylor]: yeah.

 

485

00:21:57,703 –> 00:22:01,228

[Desiree]: I mean I eat meat so but the texture

is just like meat.

 

486

00:22:02,004 –> 00:22:04,104

[Lori Taylor]: I think it’s definitely a texture

thing that makes it such

 

487

00:22:04,041 –> 00:22:04,283

[Desiree]: Yeah,

 

488

00:22:04,124 –> 00:22:04,144

[Lori Taylor]: a

 

489

00:22:04,464 –> 00:22:05,432

[Desiree]: I think it’s a texture.

 

490

00:22:05,505 –> 00:22:10,828

[Lori Taylor]: compare, you know, such an equitable

swap, but, um, okay. So Jackfruit, we’ve obviously

 

491

00:22:10,868 –> 00:22:15,790

[Lori Taylor]: talked about how it’s got this,

um, wow factor appeal to it and it’s got a

 

492

00:22:15,810 –> 00:22:19,371

[Lori Taylor]: really nice flavor, anything

you want to call out from its nutritional properties.

 

493

00:22:20,801 –> 00:22:25,644

[Desiree]: For jackfruit, really what stands

out to me is, and I always say it, it’s the

 

494

00:22:25,684 –> 00:22:26,844

[Desiree]: fiber.

 

495

00:22:26,540 –> 00:22:26,771

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

496

00:22:26,884 –> 00:22:31,367

[Desiree]: It’s really high in fiber. It’s who

can’t

 

497

00:22:31,112 –> 00:22:31,692

[Lori Taylor]: Well, and you know,

 

498

00:22:32,108 –> 00:22:32,228

[Desiree]: add

 

499

00:22:32,152 –> 00:22:32,232

[Lori Taylor]: and

 

500

00:22:32,288 –> 00:22:32,428

[Desiree]: more

 

501

00:22:32,312 –> 00:22:32,693

[Lori Taylor]: fiber

 

502

00:22:32,468 –> 00:22:32,788

[Desiree]: fiber.

 

503

00:22:32,733 –> 00:22:37,336

[Lori Taylor]: is so important. And that is

in one of my favorite topics that we’ve discussed

 

504

00:22:37,376 –> 00:22:42,760

[Lori Taylor]: now in every episode about superfoods.

And it was also emphasized in our previous

 

505

00:22:42,800 –> 00:22:47,903

[Lori Taylor]: series, which was all about food

as medicine, gut health overall. Like it’s

 

506

00:22:47,943 –> 00:22:54,988

[Lori Taylor]: become such a heightened priority

for folks to the point where Dr. Robert Graham,

 

507

00:22:55,028 –> 00:22:59,011

[Lori Taylor]: who was a previous guest on this

show under the Food as Medicine mini series,

 

508

00:22:59,131 –> 00:23:04,745

[Lori Taylor]: he said that It’s now with all

the scientific awareness and research, he said,

 

509

00:23:04,785 –> 00:23:10,728

[Lori Taylor]: don’t be surprised when your

gut and microbiome health becomes part of your

 

510

00:23:10,768 –> 00:23:14,190

[Lori Taylor]: standard health readings the

way that blood pressure is. Like he said, that

 

511

00:23:14,230 –> 00:23:21,633

[Lori Taylor]: is really all of these preventable

diseases begin and end in the gut. So fiber

 

512

00:23:21,813 –> 00:23:26,995

[Lori Taylor]: is truly one of the number one

nutritional properties as it relates to gut

 

513

00:23:27,035 –> 00:23:33,378

[Lori Taylor]: health. Yeah. Okay. So let’s

talk about some of these other testimonials

 

514

00:23:33,538 –> 00:23:38,302

[Lori Taylor]: that, and claims that people

have about super food concepts or nutritional

 

515

00:23:38,322 –> 00:23:42,406

[Lori Taylor]: benefits and the tropical fruit

portfolio. So we’ve already discussed and touched

 

516

00:23:42,446 –> 00:23:47,730

[Lori Taylor]: on fiber and gut health, um,

lower blood sugar with tropical fruits. That

 

517

00:23:47,810 –> 00:23:51,874

[Lori Taylor]: surprised me because when you

bite into like a tropical fruit, the sweetness,

 

518

00:23:52,254 –> 00:23:56,637

[Lori Taylor]: we all know that, you know, it’s

a natural sugar, you know, it’s a natural fruit

 

519

00:23:56,657 –> 00:24:01,289

[Lori Taylor]: sugar, but the lower blood sugar,

with tropical fruits and that research that

 

520

00:24:01,349 –> 00:24:08,415

[Lori Taylor]: I did came from masteringdiabetes.org.

It’s a scientific, um, scientific, scientifically,

 

521

00:24:09,055 –> 00:24:15,421

[Lori Taylor]: uh, research journal. So it felt

like a very reputable source. Um, the author

 

522

00:24:15,461 –> 00:24:20,985

[Lori Taylor]: of this article that I read is

a nutritionist as well as a PhD in nutrition.

 

523

00:24:21,105 –> 00:24:27,771

[Lori Taylor]: So, uh, unbelievable to me that,

that there are tropical fruits that in fact

 

524

00:24:27,831 –> 00:24:29,628

[Lori Taylor]: lower blood sugar. or

 

525

00:24:29,561 –> 00:24:29,921

[Desiree]: Yes,

 

526

00:24:29,670 –> 00:24:30,103

[Lori Taylor]: claims.

 

527

00:24:30,261 –> 00:24:32,324

[Desiree]: and that’s actually a dragon fruit

 

528

00:24:32,809 –> 00:24:33,054

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

529

00:24:33,265 –> 00:24:39,892

[Desiree]: is one of those and dragon fruit

is it’s delicious and it’s not it’s not sweet.

 

530

00:24:40,520 –> 00:24:43,702

[Lori Taylor]: That’s true. It’s not like a

lot of people think that it’s going to be or

 

531

00:24:43,722 –> 00:24:47,684

[Lori Taylor]: their encounter with dragon fruit

is that super pink, that super sweet pink drink

 

532

00:24:47,724 –> 00:24:50,887

[Lori Taylor]: at Starbucks, which is essentially

like lemonade. Um,

 

533

00:24:50,826 –> 00:24:50,946

[Desiree]: Right.

 

534

00:24:51,647 –> 00:24:51,787

[Lori Taylor]: yeah.

 

535

00:24:51,667 –> 00:24:56,310

[Desiree]: Which it’s not really much jack much

dragon fruit in it.

 

536

00:24:56,977 –> 00:24:57,282

[Lori Taylor]: Right.

 

537

00:24:57,091 –> 00:24:59,532

[Desiree]: There’s really not much dragon fruit

in it.

 

538

00:25:00,520 –> 00:25:06,401

[Lori Taylor]: Well, very interesting. Okay.

So let’s talk about another, um, like health

 

539

00:25:06,441 –> 00:25:10,662

[Lori Taylor]: common health theme as it relates

to super foods and that’s performance nutrition.

 

540

00:25:10,702 –> 00:25:15,384

[Lori Taylor]: So we’ve talked about that. Um,

we’ve talked about tropical or we’ve talked

 

541

00:25:15,404 –> 00:25:21,446

[Lori Taylor]: about performance nutrition,

sports nutrition, recovering with, um, tropical

 

542

00:25:21,486 –> 00:25:28,532

[Lori Taylor]: fruits. For people who are, you

know, exit athletes or exercising and There’s

 

543

00:25:28,572 –> 00:25:33,973

[Lori Taylor]: a lot of reasons that is, that

is something, um, hang on. I’m going to restate

 

544

00:25:34,013 –> 00:25:37,634

[Lori Taylor]: that cause I’m, I’m struggling

on how to say this efficiently. All right,

 

545

00:25:37,674 –> 00:25:46,117

[Lori Taylor]: here we go. Okay. So another,

uh, testimonial that is common on line and

 

546

00:25:46,137 –> 00:25:52,559

[Lori Taylor]: we found some research to back

it up, um, frugivore biology.com. This article

 

547

00:25:52,799 –> 00:25:58,954

[Lori Taylor]: is written by PhD. And the title

is Tropical Fruits, the secret food for better

 

548

00:25:58,994 –> 00:26:04,116

[Lori Taylor]: performance and regeneration.

So tropical fruits, and this is a relatively

 

549

00:26:04,156 –> 00:26:09,939

[Lori Taylor]: new article published within

the last year, tropical fruits are gaining

 

550

00:26:09,979 –> 00:26:15,102

[Lori Taylor]: more attention in sports nutrition

due to high performance and fast recovery of

 

551

00:26:15,182 –> 00:26:17,443

[Lori Taylor]: muscle tissue. Interesting.

 

552

00:26:19,349 –> 00:26:20,307

[Desiree]: Very interesting.

 

553

00:26:21,516 –> 00:26:27,000

[Lori Taylor]: So some of the fruits that all

these fruits are fruits that you all sell durian,

 

554

00:26:26,741 –> 00:26:26,946

[Desiree]: Yes.

 

555

00:26:27,140 –> 00:26:31,883

[Lori Taylor]: banana, cherimoya, jackfruit,

mango, papaya, mangosteen, dragon fruit, lychee,

 

556

00:26:31,924 –> 00:26:37,648

[Lori Taylor]: persimmon, guava, rambutan, lucuma.

I don’t know that one and sapote. The only

 

557

00:26:37,688 –> 00:26:41,971

[Lori Taylor]: one on that list I have not tried

is lucuma. Do you even know what lucuma

 

558

00:26:41,685 –> 00:26:41,930

[Desiree]: Yeah.

 

559

00:26:42,031 –> 00:26:42,151

[Lori Taylor]: is?

 

560

00:26:45,500 –> 00:26:48,623

[Lori Taylor]: I don’t either. I don’t know

what that is. Okay. Um, all right.

 

561

00:26:48,634 –> 00:26:48,881

[Desiree]: LeeG?

 

562

00:26:48,643 –> 00:26:54,708

[Lori Taylor]: I’m, I don’t know if it’s no

leachies listed. All right. I’m going to re

 

563

00:26:54,728 –> 00:26:56,210

[Lori Taylor]: I’m going to restate that again.

This one’s causing

 

564

00:26:56,122 –> 00:26:56,242

[Desiree]: Oh,

 

565

00:26:56,230 –> 00:26:56,330

[Lori Taylor]: us

 

566

00:26:56,262 –> 00:26:56,423

[Desiree]: yeah.

 

567

00:26:56,350 –> 00:26:58,532

[Lori Taylor]: all sorts of issues. All right.

I’m going to drop that one.

 

568

00:26:59,329 –> 00:26:59,431

[Desiree]: Okay.

 

569

00:27:00,013 –> 00:27:03,596

[Lori Taylor]: Okay. So within the article,

they call it a few different varieties of tropical

 

570

00:27:03,636 –> 00:27:08,241

[Lori Taylor]: fruits, all of which are available

on tropical fruit box.com or at one point in

 

571

00:27:08,261 –> 00:27:13,610

[Lori Taylor]: the year have been durian, banana,

cherimoya. jackfruit, mango, papaya, mangosteen,

 

572

00:27:13,670 –> 00:27:17,575

[Lori Taylor]: dragon fruit, lychee, persimmon,

guava, rambutan, and sapote.

 

573

00:27:20,671 –> 00:27:20,934

[Desiree]: Yes.

 

574

00:27:20,680 –> 00:27:29,927

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah, yeah. So I thought it was

fascinating that how they called out the way

 

575

00:27:29,947 –> 00:27:34,551

[Lori Taylor]: that tropical fruits can aid

sports performance by improving physical strength,

 

576

00:27:34,711 –> 00:27:40,036

[Lori Taylor]: increasing the recovery and injury,

attenuating muscle soreness and reducing fatigue.

 

577

00:27:40,076 –> 00:27:45,741

[Lori Taylor]: And they have a really good scientific

study that was conducted in 2020 that’s linked

 

578

00:27:45,781 –> 00:27:51,745

[Lori Taylor]: in this article, but it kind

of all comes back. to nutrients, chemical compositions.

 

579

00:27:52,905 –> 00:27:59,868

[Lori Taylor]: And when it comes to science,

hard to deny it, scientific facts. So I found

 

580

00:27:59,908 –> 00:28:04,431

[Lori Taylor]: that really interesting. And

the cellular respiration that they call out,

 

581

00:28:04,451 –> 00:28:09,573

[Lori Taylor]: there’s a really nice, there’s

a nice graphic that kind of takes people through

 

582

00:28:09,593 –> 00:28:14,955

[Lori Taylor]: that process and how simple sugars

from tropical fruits are readily available.

 

583

00:28:15,404 –> 00:28:19,866

[Lori Taylor]: for energy production, which

is also known as ATP, in the cells, and this

 

584

00:28:20,006 –> 00:28:25,429

[Lori Taylor]: is what is needed for performance

and regeneration. So anyone who’s a performance

 

585

00:28:25,529 –> 00:28:29,931

[Lori Taylor]: athlete or anyone who’s trying

to bulk up or increase their physical strength

 

586

00:28:29,971 –> 00:28:33,993

[Lori Taylor]: or their athletic performance,

who would have thought that it could be as

 

587

00:28:34,033 –> 00:28:37,195

[Lori Taylor]: simple as indulging in some delicious

tropical fruits?

 

588

00:28:38,920 –> 00:28:39,555

[Desiree]: It’s true!

 

589

00:28:40,504 –> 00:28:46,887

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah, yeah, it is amazing. All

right. So now a topic that I love because we,

 

590

00:28:47,007 –> 00:28:52,269

[Lori Taylor]: you know, obviously this is the

produce moms podcast, but, um, folate and pregnancy

 

591

00:28:52,309 –> 00:28:57,091

[Lori Taylor]: benefits of tropical fruits.

So anything you’d like to add on that we have,

 

592

00:28:57,491 –> 00:29:01,713

[Lori Taylor]: um, in our research, we found

something from the national library of medicine

 

593

00:29:02,134 –> 00:29:06,905

[Lori Taylor]: that talks about folates and

the importance of folate during Most people

 

594

00:29:06,945 –> 00:29:10,152

[Lori Taylor]: who have had a baby are very

familiar with that. You know, that’s one of

 

595

00:29:10,172 –> 00:29:14,862

[Lori Taylor]: the key components of a prenatal

vitamin, but anything you want to call out

 

596

00:29:15,242 –> 00:29:17,467

[Lori Taylor]: as it relates to folate and tropical

fruits.

 

597

00:29:20,893 –> 00:29:21,236

[Desiree]: I don’t know.

 

598

00:29:22,088 –> 00:29:29,191

[Lori Taylor]: Okay, no problem. So let’s see

here what this says. I think that there’s in

 

599

00:29:29,231 –> 00:29:33,533

[Lori Taylor]: the article. I think all you

have to do is just say it’s a nice, like most

 

600

00:29:33,573 –> 00:29:37,255

[Lori Taylor]: of our, many of our tropical

fruits have a nice, let me see here.

 

601

00:29:43,496 –> 00:29:48,586

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah, so tropical fruits are,

tropical fruits are a natural source of folate.

 

602

00:29:48,666 –> 00:29:52,313

[Lori Taylor]: Many tropical fruits, don’t say

all, say many tropical fruits are a natural

 

603

00:29:52,353 –> 00:29:54,217

[Lori Taylor]: source of folate. And then

 

604

00:29:54,481 –> 00:29:54,721

[Desiree]: Okay,

 

605

00:29:54,537 –> 00:29:55,319

[Lori Taylor]: that’s all you have to say,

 

606

00:29:55,242 –> 00:29:55,483

[Desiree]: wait,

 

607

00:29:55,339 –> 00:29:55,719

[Lori Taylor]: right?

 

608

00:29:55,623 –> 00:30:01,074

[Desiree]: here’s a, hold on, I’ll say it now,

but there’s a gardener outside my window.

 

609

00:30:01,340 –> 00:30:01,401

[Lori Taylor]: Oh,

 

610

00:30:01,355 –> 00:30:01,916

[Desiree]: Do you hear me?

 

611

00:30:02,467 –> 00:30:04,239

[Lori Taylor]: I can hear you fine. I don’t

hear the gardener.

 

612

00:30:05,634 –> 00:30:06,318

[Desiree]: Oh, good.

 

613

00:30:06,724 –> 00:30:07,845

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

614

00:30:07,243 –> 00:30:08,048

[Desiree]: Okay, so say that

 

615

00:30:07,925 –> 00:30:08,205

[Lori Taylor]: All right.

 

616

00:30:08,068 –> 00:30:08,350

[Desiree]: again.

 

617

00:30:08,825 –> 00:30:08,985

[Lori Taylor]: Yep.

 

618

00:30:08,893 –> 00:30:09,356

[Desiree]: Say that again.

 

619

00:30:11,387 –> 00:30:14,630

[Lori Taylor]: Here we go. So Desiree, anything

that you want to say or add as it relates to

 

620

00:30:14,710 –> 00:30:16,071

[Lori Taylor]: folates and tropical fruits.

 

621

00:30:18,431 –> 00:30:21,979

[Desiree]: Well, a lot of the tropical fruits

have a good amount of folate,

 

622

00:30:22,384 –> 00:30:22,724

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

623

00:30:22,842 –> 00:30:24,486

[Desiree]: so pretty much almost all

 

624

00:30:24,345 –> 00:30:24,645

[Lori Taylor]: Which

 

625

00:30:24,526 –> 00:30:24,806

[Desiree]: of them.

 

626

00:30:25,545 –> 00:30:29,547

[Lori Taylor]: we’ve talked about in previous

episodes of the series. And of course, in the,

 

627

00:30:29,567 –> 00:30:33,790

[Lori Taylor]: you know, food is medicine series,

how, if you can get the natural form as opposed

 

628

00:30:33,810 –> 00:30:36,251

[Lori Taylor]: to a supplement form, we’re all

winning.

 

629

00:30:35,821 –> 00:30:36,383

[Desiree]: Absolutely.

 

630

00:30:36,891 –> 00:30:38,352

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah. Any,

 

631

00:30:37,427 –> 00:30:37,688

[Desiree]: Yes.

 

632

00:30:38,873 –> 00:30:44,035

[Lori Taylor]: have you received any sort of,

um, feedback from your, your tropical fruit

 

633

00:30:44,055 –> 00:30:48,458

[Lori Taylor]: box as to why they’re buying

certain items? You know, any of your subscription

 

634

00:30:48,498 –> 00:30:53,201

[Lori Taylor]: boxes, for instance, has anyone

written into you about. their testimonials

 

635

00:30:53,241 –> 00:30:57,767

[Lori Taylor]: as to why they’re using fruits

and your tropical fruits for superfood reasons.

 

636

00:30:58,961 –> 00:31:03,904

[Desiree]: Well, the avocado, because avocado,

you know, it’s just so high in potassium and

 

637

00:31:03,924 –> 00:31:07,906

[Desiree]: it really is a super food. You can

eat it as a fruit. You can eat it as a vegetable.

 

638

00:31:09,707 –> 00:31:13,529

[Desiree]: So avocado, we always get probably

the most amount of feedback.

 

639

00:31:13,798 –> 00:31:13,960

[Lori Taylor]: Mm-hmm.

 

640

00:31:14,350 –> 00:31:18,933

[Desiree]: And most of our boxes, everyone.

So our boxes, you choose what items to go in

 

641

00:31:18,953 –> 00:31:19,433

[Desiree]: your box.

 

642

00:31:19,191 –> 00:31:19,380

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

643

00:31:20,073 –> 00:31:23,936

[Desiree]: Almost every single box, people choose

the avocado. So

 

644

00:31:24,183 –> 00:31:24,435

[Lori Taylor]: Wow.

 

645

00:31:24,396 –> 00:31:30,610

[Desiree]: it’s one of the top. I would say

our top is avocado dragon fruits up there too.

 

646

00:31:32,490 –> 00:31:39,632

[Desiree]: People are using them, I think for

obvious reasons as well. I think it’s, if it’s

 

647

00:31:39,852 –> 00:31:47,614

[Desiree]: going to a family, let’s say, most

people do eat avocados. People like dragon

 

648

00:31:47,654 –> 00:31:49,815

[Desiree]: fruit as long as they try it. So

I

 

649

00:31:49,805 –> 00:31:50,078

[Lori Taylor]: Right.

 

650

00:31:49,855 –> 00:31:54,336

[Desiree]: think that dragon fruit comes as

a repeated purchase. So it’s not that first

 

651

00:31:54,376 –> 00:31:56,056

[Desiree]: time person, it’s a second time person.

 

652

00:31:56,556 –> 00:31:56,907

[Lori Taylor]: Got it.

 

653

00:31:57,415 –> 00:31:57,716

[Desiree]: Um,

 

654

00:31:59,368 –> 00:31:59,988

[Lori Taylor]: I love that.

 

655

00:31:59,887 –> 00:32:00,188

[Desiree]: but.

 

656

00:32:00,168 –> 00:32:05,092

[Lori Taylor]: So Desi, let’s talk before we

transition to our closing remarks, let’s talk

 

657

00:32:05,132 –> 00:32:11,257

[Lori Taylor]: about. How people can engage

with your brand. Like where can they, what

 

658

00:32:11,277 –> 00:32:15,920

[Lori Taylor]: do they do to get one of these

boxes to their doorstep? How, where do you

 

659

00:32:15,960 –> 00:32:19,943

[Lori Taylor]: want people to start when it

comes to like, okay, anyone who’s listening

 

660

00:32:19,963 –> 00:32:22,706

[Lori Taylor]: today is like, I need to eat

more tropical fruits. How does that journey

 

661

00:32:22,726 –> 00:32:25,227

[Lori Taylor]: begin? What w what’s one takeaway

you want them to have?

 

662

00:32:26,865 –> 00:32:31,586

[Desiree]: Well, it’s easy. They can either

order directly online at tropicalfruitbox.com.

 

663

00:32:33,486 –> 00:32:38,228

[Desiree]: You choose your fruits, whatever

you would like in your box, and we ship it

 

664

00:32:38,268 –> 00:32:43,309

[Desiree]: to you straight to your door. So

that’s always very convenient. Or you can go

 

665

00:32:43,329 –> 00:32:49,671

[Desiree]: to your grocery store and request

that item. So if it’s

 

666

00:32:49,514 –> 00:32:49,699

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

667

00:32:49,771 –> 00:32:55,772

[Desiree]: a tropical avocado and it’s not there,

request the produce manager to carry a tropical

 

668

00:32:55,792 –> 00:32:56,212

[Desiree]: avocado.

 

669

00:32:56,784 –> 00:32:57,044

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah,

 

670

00:32:56,903 –> 00:32:57,291

[Desiree]: Avocado.

 

671

00:32:57,304 –> 00:33:00,785

[Lori Taylor]: absolutely. And one thing that

I love about when I order from Tropical Fruit

 

672

00:33:00,805 –> 00:33:05,686

[Lori Taylor]: Box, some of these fruit items,

it’s like, I don’t know what to do with them.

 

673

00:33:05,846 –> 00:33:10,348

[Lori Taylor]: Like I recently ordered some

sapotes for instance, and I’ve heard about

 

674

00:33:10,388 –> 00:33:13,909

[Lori Taylor]: sapotes. I know that when they

get soft, you can just kind of like stick your

 

675

00:33:13,949 –> 00:33:18,090

[Lori Taylor]: spoon in them and eat them, but

how else can you use them? What else? And one

 

676

00:33:18,130 –> 00:33:21,991

[Lori Taylor]: of the things that you will love

about Tropical Fruit Box, they take that guessing

 

677

00:33:22,011 –> 00:33:27,669

[Lori Taylor]: game out of it. They… Each

fruit that arrives has a little ID card, as

 

678

00:33:27,729 –> 00:33:33,356

[Lori Taylor]: well as a preparation tip. And

that is so helpful for anyone who’s trying

 

679

00:33:33,396 –> 00:33:35,439

[Lori Taylor]: a new thing for the first time

especially.

 

680

00:33:36,749 –> 00:33:37,270

[Desiree]: Yes,

 

681

00:33:37,717 –> 00:33:37,964

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

682

00:33:37,851 –> 00:33:42,058

[Desiree]: we try and we try to switch up the

recipes too. So, you know, the second time

 

683

00:33:42,078 –> 00:33:45,024

[Desiree]: you order your box, that recipe should

be different. We really try to

 

684

00:33:46,308 –> 00:33:46,588

[Lori Taylor]: Make it.

 

685

00:33:46,567 –> 00:33:46,927

[Desiree]: change

 

686

00:33:46,628 –> 00:33:46,928

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

687

00:33:47,027 –> 00:33:47,148

[Desiree]: out

 

688

00:33:47,088 –> 00:33:47,248

[Lori Taylor]: Keep

 

689

00:33:47,188 –> 00:33:47,428

[Desiree]: those

 

690

00:33:47,288 –> 00:33:47,848

[Lori Taylor]: it fresh.

 

691

00:33:47,508 –> 00:33:48,009

[Desiree]: recipes.

 

692

00:33:48,028 –> 00:33:48,388

[Lori Taylor]: Yeah.

 

693

00:33:48,891 –> 00:33:49,251

[Desiree]: Yes.

 

694

00:33:49,388 –> 00:33:52,749

[Lori Taylor]: I love that. Well, Desi, this

has been a great episode. I’m so glad that

 

695

00:33:52,769 –> 00:33:58,251

[Lori Taylor]: you were willing to come on and

join me for a discussion and tribute to Tropical

 

696

00:33:58,271 –> 00:34:02,132

[Lori Taylor]: Fruits as we celebrate all things

superfoods here at the Produce Moms podcast.

 

697

00:34:02,192 –> 00:34:07,033

[Lori Taylor]: But with that, you get closing

remarks. You can say, you know, help people

 

698

00:34:07,053 –> 00:34:10,054

[Lori Taylor]: understand how they can stay

connected with you. I want to remind everyone

 

699

00:34:10,554 –> 00:34:17,799

[Lori Taylor]: that the website for WP Produce

is WP. produce.com and tropical fruit box is

 

700

00:34:17,919 –> 00:34:23,665

[Lori Taylor]: at tropical fruit box.com. You

can follow along with Desi’s family business

 

701

00:34:23,725 –> 00:34:29,871

[Lori Taylor]: by on social media at Desbrey

produce or at tropical fruit box. You’re going

 

702

00:34:29,891 –> 00:34:35,016

[Lori Taylor]: to be introduced. Like I said,

nothing else. Get on Desbrey produces Instagram

 

703

00:34:35,036 –> 00:34:39,773

[Lori Taylor]: page and check out the size of

that ginormous jackfruit. Right? You’re gonna

 

704

00:34:39,793 –> 00:34:43,022

[Lori Taylor]: love it. All right, well, Desi,

with that, you get closing remarks. Thanks

 

705

00:34:43,062 –> 00:34:45,087

[Lori Taylor]: again for coming back on the

show and being our guest.

 

706

00:34:46,325 –> 00:34:48,646

[Desiree]: Thank you, Lori. Always a pleasure.

 

707

00:34:49,178 –> 00:34:49,404

[Lori Taylor]: Thank you.

 

708

00:34:49,706 –> 00:34:55,128

[Desiree]: So everyone just stay connected.

Go to tropicalfruitbox.com. Go to WPProduce.com.

 

709

00:34:55,489 –> 00:35:04,072

[Desiree]: You can also follow our Instagram

at Desbre Produce or Tropical Fruitbox USA.

 

710

00:35:04,112 –> 00:35:04,572

[Desiree]: Thank you.