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Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

This event was on Tuesday, April 04, 2023 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to cours… Read More.

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Question:

Are there ways to know the quality of ingredients or which are better or top of the line? Is it name, is it packaging or is it live and learn?

— Annette Moore

Answer:

That's a great question. And the best thing I can tell you for that one in that is to do your research on them, you know, a lot of labels can look really fancy but not really have the best quality of ingredients in them when it comes to Just Produce. I typically try to buy organic when I can or can afford it. I try to buy directly from Farmers and I actually know have relationships with like know the quality the ingredients are good and that they're grown well purpose as far as packaged items. It's really doing a little bit of research because if it's a package you can usually find a website on it. It's a little harder when you're in the grocery store at you know at the moment to be able to do it. But really just look doing a little bit of research and finding out what the best quality. Is probably best wait and invest advice. I can give to you as well. As you know, go in the internet find do a little bit of research on it. See what other people are saying about it. And then again kind of know what the growing practices are. Well, you know how you know, and it's really about kind of like Where things are grown how they're grown, you know are they using pesticides, you know kind of those kinds of things to be able to see so as by finding quality ingredients, you know, can sometimes be a jungle when you're really going through the packaged areas when you're in fresh produce. I typically look for organic most of the time. It's really the best way or best advice that will give you on that as well, too. So hope that helps a little bit.
Dan Marek

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

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