Mission Statement
We specialize in wholesaling gourmet and certified organic products from tropical locations to retail establishments in the United States.
The Royal Hawaiian Honey Line announces its CarbonFree Certified Product label, becoming the first food product in the United States to go climate neutral!
Tropical Traders Specialty Foods
Tropical Traders Specialty Foods is a second generation, family-owned business. We focus on hand-crafted, limited production specialty foods because we believe in their unparalleled quality and unique characteristics. The select suppliers we partner with produce their products with care and patience, upholding a legacy of time-honored traditions.
We specialize in wholesaling gourmet and certified organic products from tropical locations to retail establishments in the United States. Browsing our line of products will show our customers what we are currently offering. At times it will be multiple products. Often, just one or two. This is due to the fact that what we supply comes in small quantities, and only during certain times of year.
ABOUT OUR CARBON NEUTRAL CERTIFICATION
There is an enormous amount of energy used in the growing, packing and shipping of food in this country. An estimated 17 percent of the energy consumed in the United States goes into getting our food to market- over 100 billion gallons of oil per year. This is an alarming amount of greenhouse gasses emitted for each American meal, and they contribute to global warming. Tropical Traders Specialty Foods, LLC, which distributes the Royal Hawaiian Honey line, decided it could have a positive impact on climate change. In partnership with Carbonfund.org, it performed a product life-cycle CO2 analysis which determines a product’s carbon footprint. This means calculating how much energy was consumed in the production, shipping and distribution of all of the components that go into each and every jar of Royal Hawaiian Honey; including the extraction of silica from the ground to manufacture the glass jars, the production and printing of its label, the amount of energy used in bottling the honey, and the shipping of its products from the Big Island to markets as far away as New York City. Once this figure was determined, the energy used was off-set by investing in renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. Carbonfund.org describes carbon off-sets thus:
"Carbon offsetting is the act of reducing an equal amount of carbon somewhere else to counterbalance the carbon emissions from your energy-using activities (called your carbon footprint)."
By taking responsibility for its carbon footprint and neutralizing its emissions, the Royal Hawaiian Honey label is working within its industry to make a difference.
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