Kingsville, ON – Mastronardi Produce/SUNSET® took top honors at the 2011 Hottest Tomato Competition once again. For the fourth year in a row, Mastronardi takes the lead by bringing home five (5) out of eight (8) awards in the very important Tomato category. The win confirms the focus that Mastronardi Produce puts on its continuous development of flavorful tomatoes such as Zima™ -the seriously sweet tomato™ and Delano™ the exciting new flavorful TOV.
R.E.A.CH. International, creates and organizes this competition exclusively for the Ontario Greenhouse Industry with proceeds going towards children in less fortunate countries as well as local food banks to help the hungry. As a part of the annual Hottest Tomato, Perfect Pepper and Coolest Cucumber Event presented by REACH in Leamington, Ontario, Mastronardi took top honors in the following categories:
- People’s Choice Award – Zima™
- Best Overall Tomato – Zima™
- Best Hothouse Bite Size Tomato – Zima™
- Best Hothouse Cluster Tomato – Delano™
- Best Hothouse Cocktail Tomato – Champagne™
- Best Hothouse Red Bell Pepper – SUNSET® Sweet Bell Pepper
- Best Specialty Hot Pepper – SUNSET® Ancient Hots™
- People’s Choice Award – SUNSET® Ancient Sweets™
“We are extremely proud that our gourmet tomatoes captured these coveted awards.” stated Paul Mastronardi, President. “The demand for Zima™ tomatoes has been overwhelming, we have been increasing plantings just to keep up.” “And now our Delano™ flavor TOV has successfully added winning taste to the Tomato on the Vine category. Our company was built on flavor & quality and awards such as this further validates what we stand for,”
The general public was able to sample all the different tomato, pepper and cucumber varieties in the competition throughout the weekend and the feedback surrounding Zima™ tomatoes was amazing. Even people that weren’t “tomato lovers” stated that they enjoyed these and would purchases them in the future.
To learn more about Mastronardi’s extensive offering of gourmet tomatoes, please visit www.sunsetproduce.com.
About Mastronardi Produce/SUNSET® –
Mastronardi Produce began growing vegetables in Leamington, Ontario in the 1920's and was the pioneer of building commercial greenhouses in North America in the 1940’s. Family owned & employee managed for more than 60 years, Mastronardi prides itself in producing consistently flavorful gourmet greenhouse tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers for top retailers across the North America. Mastronardi Produce has developed their nationally recognized SUNSET® brand of produce into a household name with quality products like the Campari® Cocktail Tomatoes, Zima™ Seriously Sweet Grape Tomatoes, One Sweet™ Tomatoes, Kumato™ Brown Tomatoes, Delano™ Flavor TOV and Ancient Sweet™ Peppers.
Source: Mastronardi Produce/SUNSET®