Vincent Choate, director of marketing with Hollandia Produce, grower and shipper of the Live Gourmet family, showcases the company’s line of lettuce and watercress. Choate is holding a container of the company’s butter lettuce.

Prairie City Bakery showed off its assortment of muffins, donuts and danishes. Prairie City Bakery was founded in 1994 and its products are found at an estimated 15,000 locations nationwide.

Food and beverage suppliers such as Dr Pepper Snapple Group were on display at the 2009 NRA Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show. The group’s line up includes more than 50 beverage brands.

Rosseto found the show’s sweet spot, attracting attendees’ interest with serving solutions for candy and cereal goods. Rosetto's product lineup includes cereal and topping dispensers, liteware glasses and cups, and display cases.

Jacqueline Hernandez and Melanie Pas manned the Monin Gourmet Flavorings booth during the NRA Show. Monin showcased its new Monin Fruit Purees product available in peach, raspberry, mango, wildberry, banana, superfruit and strawberry.

Coca-Cola FoodService featured its two-part Fuze tea system. Fuze offers five flavor varieties, including green tea, black tea, sweetened and unsweetened.

Fresherized Foods has developed an ultra-high pressure procedure to seal fresh foods for shelf-stable storage with no preservatives. Its salsa and guacamole, also available under the retail brand Wholly Guacamole, can be kept fresh for more than 40 da

Fresherized Foods vacuum seals fresh avocado halves that maintain freshness for 30 days.

Grimmway Farms offers a new healthy side option for kids meals with its Carroteenies, prepackaged snack sized baby carrots.

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Lamb Weston sampled a variety of new offerings, including Lamb’s Natural Yukon Chips. The gourmet-quality wavy cut chips are made from Yukon potatoes.

Norpac Foods sampled its Scratch Recipe single-strength premium soups, which also can be used to create signature dips or sauces for pasta.

Palazzolo’s offers 600 flavors of artisan gelato as well as sorbetto. The fresh made gourmet product uses fresh milk and all perishable ingredients, including real fruit and was a big draw at this year’s NRA Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show.

British-owned Performance Restaurant Source’s Sweetbird brand made its U.S. debut. Sweetbird’s syrups and blended fruit smoothie mixes contain no artificial flavorings or colorings.

VitaminSpice offers operators the ability to vitamin-infuse their offerings while adding spice. The all natural, gluten-free spice and vitamin blends contain no additives, preservatives or colorings. The spices are available in customized formulas

Windsor Foods gave out samples of its new spicy Posada Chimichangas and Mini Tacos, which meet the growing trends for bold flavors and snack-sized portions.