The last time I visited my favorite Ann Arbor Japanese grocery a display of pretty green and white packages of noodles caught my attention. The packages showed colorful vegetables and curly green noodles. “Deliciously Chewy!” proclaimed the top line, and near the bottom, “Ready in 2-3 minutes.” The noodles are made with leaves of the moroheiya plant, making them a “great source of fibers & vitamin A.” Unlike most instant noodles, these are not fried nor do they have added MSG. Mr. Tess and Little Tess were home for lunch, and hungry. Usually lunch is a matter of foraging in the fridge, pantry, and breadbox but I was curious about these noodles. I added a lovely tomato, a half package of soft tofu, wakame, and sliced green onions to the soup. Verdict: I would never crave these noodles, though the others really enjoyed them. We all found the shiitake broth salty so I’d suggest not adding the whole packet. We didn’t use the soy sauce either. Overall, these are a nice pantry staple for lunch or a snack.

Read more about these green noodles on the company website. From a note on the package: Mr. Sho Oga was a typical employee working for a company in Japan which produced health supplements. One day he had an inspiration to create a healthy food that was not only nutritious but enjoyable tasty and easy to prepare. His goal was to find a simple and effortless way for people of all ages to eat healthy. This lead to the wonderful creation of the Moroheiya noodles. Morohelya is a highly nutritious vegetable that was prized by the Egyptians for its health and beauty benefits. Moroheiya also known as mulukhiya or mallow leaf (Corchuros in Lat.) Corchorus is a genus of about 40-100 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world. Different common names are used in different contexts, with jute applying to the fiber produced from the plant, and mallow-leaves for the leaves used as a vegetable. The plants are tall, usually annual herbs, reaching a height of 2-4 m, unbranched or with only a few side branches.

The leaves are alternate, simple, lanceolate, 5-15 cm long, with an acuminate tip and a finely serrated or lobed margin. The flowers are small (2-3 cm diameter) and yellow, with five petals; the fruit is a many-seeded capsule. It thrives almost anywhere, and can be grown year-round.Discover our wide variety of seafood products, each of which can help you make running your food service operation simpler and smoother. We provide consistent and reliable products to meet your needs.Our broad offering includes Atlantic farm-raised salmon, Chilean sea bass, and Florida grouper, as well as other fresh seasonal catches. Through our innovative packaging, the fish is well-chilled without being frozen or in direct contact with ice or water, to keep it truly fresh and of the highest quality.Your health-conscious customers may choose the nutrition benefits of fish over other proteins. Ready your menu with fish steaks and grilled fillets.Many of our ocean fish are hook-and-line caught, and frozen at sea to seal in the freshness and quality of the catch.

A sample of our offerings include:With menu and preparation versatility, you can select from a large selection of sizes, grades and cuts of unbreaded fish: Cape capensis, cod, flounder, haddock, pollock, grouper, lake perch, orange roughy, sea bass, snapper, rock sole, whiting, ocean perch, walleye, zander, catfish, swai, tilapia, rainbow trout, and more.sushi fisch kaufen mannheimWe offer a large selection of fish that is breaded, battered or crusted and ready to bake, broil, or fry. sushi grade fish at krogerChoose from catfish, cod, haddock, grouper, halibut, hoki, perch, pollock, redfish, tilapia, whiting, trout, shrimp, and more.jiro dreams of sushi sub thai onlineOur shellfish offering includes North Atlantic live lobsters which are shipped directly from the supplier and guaranteed to arrive alive.

We also offer frozen lobster tails, crab legs, scallops, mussels, clams, oysters, shrimp, and other specialty seafoods like crab meat, crab cakes, lobster meat, imitation crab meat, squid and calamari, herring, crawfish, alligator, and frog legs.Grill, bake, broil, or deep-fry your shrimp for maximum versatility on your menu. Satisfy a myriad of customers with a broad range of shrimp options.We offer a large assortment of raw and cooked shrimp in a variety of sizes and packages. Selection includes:Maintaining healthy oceans and viable, sustainable marine ecosystems is an important priority for Gordon Food Service.Healthy oceans and abundant fish and shellfish populations are not simply the first step in our seafood supply chain--they are the foundation of our entire seafood program. Gordon Food Service is committed to working with seafood suppliers who practice responsible, sustainable, science-based fishing practices. Our suppliers know their fish. Our suppliers know where and how each species is caught, how their fisheries are managed, and are committed to maintaining abundant fish stocks.

They do this by closely monitoring the fish stocks and analyzing information about their catch, and will respond to scientific data by adjusting harvest levels quickly and effectively. We are committed to steady deliveries of high-quality products that meet the specifications of our customers, and satisfy their consumers. Working with responsible, science-based fisheries generates more fish over time and puts more healthy seafood on the plate year after year. It’s good for the ocean, and it’s good for the planet.Gordon Food Service has earned Chain of Custody Certification from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC). These organizations set environmental standards for seafood based on the sustainability of fish stocks, minimal impact on the ecosystem, and responsible fisheries management. The Chain of Custody Standard ensures traceability of seafood back to a certified source. This allows our customers to be confident they are procuring and marketing seafood on their menus that meet expectations established by MSC for wild caught seafood and ASC for farmed seafood.