iqf frozen white asparagu

IQF frozen white asparagus center cuts

Asparagus officinalis is a spring vegetable. A flowering perennial plant species in the genus Asparagus in the lily family, like it's allium cousins, onions and garlic. It is native to most of Europe, northern Africa and western Asia,and is widely cultivated as a vegetable crop.

Food features:Asparagus is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 100–150 centimetres (39–59 in) tall, with stout larissa stems with much-branched feathery foliage. The "leaves" are in fact needle-like cladodes (modified stems) in the axils of scale leaves; they are 6–32 millimetres (0.24–1.3 in) long and 1 millimetre (0.039 in) broad, and clustered 4–15 together. The root system is adventitious and the root type is fasciculated. The flowers are bell-shaped, greenish-white to yellowish, 4.5–6.5 millimetres (0.18–0.26 in) long, with six tepals partially fused together at the base; they are produced singly or in clusters of 2–3 in the junctions of the branchlets.