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Kettle Cuisine’s Love Affair with the Tomato
Soups, Chilis and Chowders all start with the best quality tomatoes available!

(Winter 2009) Kettle Cuisine, Inc. of Chelsea, MA makes over fifty (50) varieties of fresh refrigerated and select frozen soups for foodservice operators and grocers. The fact that more than a dozen of their best selling, all natural soups incorporate tomatoes in some fashion is not coincidence. For centuries, tomatoes have been at the heart of favorite soups, stews, chilis and chowders from all over the world, and for good reason― they taste great!

Tomato & Garden Vegetable Soup Fresh garden vegetables including squash, celery, carrots, green and wax beans cooked with red-ripe California tomatoes and Italian seasonings.

Turkey Chili with Beans A hearty chili made from lean, diced turkey with traditional Southwestern chili seasonings, small red beans, tomatoes, peppers, onions and green chilies.

Maryland Vegetable Crab Soup A traditional Maryland-style soup created from crab together with fresh root and leaf vegetables, tomato filets, and finished with traditional crab seasonings.

But there’s more to the tomato story. Nutritional research shows that tomatoes are rich in vitamin C and potassium. They also contain phytosterols which have been shown to decrease LDL cholesterol, beta-carotene which can help boost the immune system, and lycopene, a potent antioxidant that may help prevent prostate cancer and some other forms of cancer, heart disease, and other serious diseases.  Lucky for tomato soup lovers, lycopene actually increases when tomatoes are cooked.

Kettle Cuisine’s Executive Chef Volker Frick says, “Different soups call for different varieties of tomatoes and tomato preparations dependent upon the soup’s balance of taste and texture. For example, our Minestrone Soup calls for tomato paste and diced tomatoes in juice to achieve the right texture, however Chicken Fajita Soup with Fire-Roasted Vegetables uses tomato filets and tomato puree to perfect the consistency and blend of flavors and spices. We always use the best high quality ingredients available for our soups including real tomato products that are minimally processed (not from concentrates) and range from diced tomatoes and tomato paste to tomato filets and purees. Many of our soups start with vegetable, beef, chicken or fish stocks made fresh from scratch daily, the old fashioned way.”

A sampling of Kettle Cuisine’s “tomato” offerings includes:

Kettle Cuisine makes over fifty (50) varieties of refrigerated and frozen soups, stews, chilis and chowders. Their products are available throughout the United States.

Visit http://www.KettleCuisine.com for product information, recipes, serving suggestions, and company background. Soup samples and high resolution, print quality photographs are available upon request.

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