Goya black beans:
'To help meet the demand for such products, Joe Perez, vice president of purchasing for New Jersey-based Goya Foods, one of the nation's largest producers of Hispanic foods, scours the United States in search of ingredients. Hardly anything is imported.
The rice in Goya's boxes of arroz espanol comes from Arkansas, as does the hominy in Goya's canned pozole. The bell peppers in Goya products such as sofrito (an onion, pepper and spice base to many Latin dishes) are grown across the Sun Belt, from California to Florida. Goya's black beans come from upstate New York and, of course, Michigan.
"We don't buy from abroad because abroad is not consistent in quality," Perez said.'
En:
'Mexicans grow up eating 30 to 40 pounds of beans per year. By contrast, Americans, on average, eat 7.5 pounds of beans per year. The figure has increased about 25 percent in the past decade, reflecting both a demographic shift and the nation's broadening palate.'
"Before, we had (black beans) going mainly to New York to the Cubans and the Puerto Ricans and then to Texas and Arizona for the Mexican population," said Green of the Michigan Bean Commission. "Now it's all over the United States."
Bron: https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20000112&slug=A20000113010011