Onions – Sweet

Stigan Antioxidant, Superfood, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Sweet onions, such as Vidalia, Maui, and Walla Walla onions, named after the locations in which they are grown offer sweetness, crunch, and great health benefits. HOW TO CHOOSE  Peak season for sweet onions is during the late … Read More

Onions – Shallots

Stigan Antioxidant, Superfood, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Shallots have gained a reputation as the aristocrats of the onion family. Their delicate flavor – a sort of cross between onions, garlic and scallions. Raw shallots have a strong pungency, stronger than most onions. Shallots are firm, … Read More

Onions – Red

Stigan Antioxidant, Superfood, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Red onions have a mild to sweet flavor, an attractive colour, and tend to be medium to large in size. With purplish red skin and white flesh tinged with red, they are very different than Spanish onions, which … Read More

Mushroom – Portobello

Stigan Antioxidant, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  A vegetarian’s dream with its meaty and delicious texture and flavour! Impressive in size and appearance, the Portabella mushroom is a larger, hardier relative of the White and Crimini and can range up to 6 inches in diameter. … Read More

Mushrooms – Jumbo

Stigan Antioxidant, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  They are pleasingly mild and woodsy; their flavor intensifies when cooked. Freshly picked, they have closed veils (caps that fit closely to the stem) and delicate flavor, whereas mature mushrooms, with open veils and darkened caps, develop a … Read More

Lettuce – Romaine

Stigan Antioxidant, Glycemic Index, Superfood, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  It’s so indispensable that it always seems to be on our shopping list! Beginning your meal with a salad made of crisp romaine lettuce you will add a variety of textures and flavours to your meal, as well … Read More

Lettuce – Red Leaf

Stigan Glycemic Index, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Red leaf lettuce is a loose-headed type of green leaf lettuce with attractive red coloured frilled edges to each leaf. Like the green leaf, it, too, grows from a stalk and spreads out to form its loose leafed … Read More

Lettuce – Green Leaf

Stigan Glycemic Index, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Spreading from a stalk outwards this crisp and flavourful leafy salad green grows to form a loose leafed bunch of greens with a decorative frilled edging. HOW TO CHOOSE  Available year-round. Fresh leaves will be medium to dark-green … Read More

Lettuce – Iceberg

Stigan Glycemic Index, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  It wasn’t too long ago that North Americans considered Iceberg lettuce as the only lettuce, and it remains one of the top sellers for a good reason. Crisp and juicy, with a sweet if somewhat bland flavour, the … Read More

Lettuce Butter

Stigan Glycemic Index, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Prized by gourmet chefs for its sweet, subtle taste, is one of the five lettuce varieties: butterhead, crisphead, leaf, cos or romaine, and celtuce; Butter Lettuce has a delicate sweet flavour with a buttery texture, and is known … Read More