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Pouches stand up to retorting

Fall River wild rice in a microwavable, no-foil “glass barrier” stand-up pouch brings precooked, ready-to-eat convenience to consumers.

Two-minute warm-up: That's all it takes for the product to be reheated still pouched in either boiling water or a microwave oven
Two-minute warm-up: That's all it takes for the product to be reheated still pouched in either boiling water or a microwave oven

Fall River wild rice, Fall River Mills, CA, takes all of the guesswork—and nearly all of the time—out of properly preparing wild rice. That’s through an aluminum-foil-free pouch structure that withstands the stresses of retort conditions. Removing foil adds microwavability.

The premade pouches are supplied by CLP Industries Ltd., Israel, which has a U.S. division of CLP Packaging Solutions. The pouch film is 48-ga PET/48-ga PET copolymer with a silicon oxide (“glass”) coating/60-ga biaxially oriented nylon/2.4-mil cast polypropylene. The outer PET is reverse gravure printed in eight colors. The 8’’x6’’x3’’ 10.5-oz pouch has a tear notch on both edges along the top; a razor-thin, laser-scored mark on front and back panels ensures that the pouch tears neatly straight across the top. The laser scoring is through the outer layer of the lamination only—the barrier layer remains intact. Debuting in April, the product shelf life is 18 months.

The products are contract packaged and retorted by Shoei Foods USA.

Falls River wild rice is ready to eat or can be heated. A 10.5-oz pouch containing two cups of wild rice takes only two minutes to reheat. The pouch can be opened and reheated in a microwave oven for two minutes or an unopened pouch can be placed in boiling water for two minutes.

For comparison, consumers preparing one cup of uncooked wild rice must rinse and cook it for 45 to 60 min. And the amount of water used must be perfect to make it good, adds Hiram Oilar, Fall River general manager.

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