Eat Smart Introduces Asian Sesame Vegetable Salad Kit

March is National Nutrition Month, and Apio, is celebrating by introducing a nutritious and delicious superfood salad designed to feed consumers’ passion for the flavors of Asian cuisine. “Sales of Asian salad kits are growing 52 percent faster than the total salad kit category, so the new Eat Smart Asian Sesame Vegetable Salad Kit promises to be a popular retail item,” says Anne Byerly, Apio’s vice president of marketing and innovation. “Hearty and packed with superfoods, it’s a perfect way for busy consumers to ‘savor the flavor of eating right’ – this year’s National Nutrition Month theme.”

Consumer product taste tests show that the Eat Smart’s Asian Sesame Salad Kit is preferred over the leading retail Asian salad kit on taste, flavor, and ingredients, company officials say.  Featuring fresh ingredients, the all-in-one kit is a blend of six superfoods. The combination of savoy cabbage, red cabbage, green cabbage, carrots, kale, and crunchy cashews–a good source of essential minerals and Omega-6 fatty acids–is enhanced by crunchy sesame sticks and a sweet sesame dressing.

The salad joins Apio’s line of chef-inspired vegetable salad kits—easy salads recognized for their appealing blends of superfoods and distinctive flavors, officials add. This line also includes, among others, the No. 1 selling Sweet Kale salad kit, a gluten-free Wild Greens and Quinoa salad, a unique Beets and Greens kit, and a Southwest vegetable salad with tortilla chips and a chipotle ranch dressing.

“Our gourmet vegetable salads provide consumers with delicious, nutritious, restaurant-caliber salads that they may not have time to create from scratch,” says Byerly. “As the innovation leader in fresh-cut produce, we want to put a smile on our customers’ faces with easy and appetizing ways to eat healthy. This new Eat Smart salad gives them a refreshing option for spring and summer dining, and a good reason to visit the packaged salad aisle at their local grocery.”

The Asian Sesame Vegetable Salad Kit comes in 12-ounce bags available nationwide.