Article: Popeye would be proud: Ready Pac delivers not only a better quality spinach but one that cooks in the bag.(Product Spotlight)

Spinach ... that really green, bitter vegetable that your family made jokes about, that only Popeye could eat an entire can oo Could it ever really taste good?

In the 1990s, the convenience of prewashed, precut bagged salads energized the salad and produce section of the grocery store. As consumers became accustomed to the ease of bagged salads, they began to look for more sophisticated greens and flavors.

Along came bagged fresh spinach or "baby spinach"--young, tender leaves prewashed and ready to serve as a salad or for cooking.

With the drivers of convenience, taste and health, Ready Pac Produce Inc., Pasadena, Calif., set out to create a product that could ...

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