1. What is CUISINE AFRICANA about?
We are passionate about African foods! We are dedicated to making the most delicious and authentic African meals by using the finest quality ingredients. We use only natural heat technology to ensure that the unique tastes and freshness of our meals are preserved for your ultimate enjoyment.
The CUISINE AFRICAN range of ready meals does not contain any artificial preservative or colouring. We are about really wholesome and satisfying food!
2. How did you come to create CUISINE AFRICANA? What was the idea behind it?
We believe that people want to have more assurance about what is in their food. If we had the time many more of us would like to shop at farmers markets, select the very best local foods on the basis of quality and taste and plan and cook a meal around them. But in reality at the end of a hectic day we find ourselves eating out of tins and frozen meal containers, or relying on take-away. We wanted to give busy people an alternative – really wholesome, satisfying food at a quality that could be stored until needed and then served in minutes.
3. So how do you manage to offer great-tasting food in minutes, without compromising nutrient quality?
We use a method similar to the good old pressure cooker, a method of cooking that our mums or grannies would be familiar with. One of our many points of difference from other food companies is that we use a kitchen method, preparing and cooking small batches of each recipe.
All the ingredients, uncooked go into individual portion pouches. The pouch is sealed and put into a steam pressure cooker.
The physics of the pressure cooker enables us to generate a higher temperature cooking process, which reduces the time necessary to cook and results in tender food. Because it is sealed in the pouches, the aromatics are retained, not lost in the steam. The cooking process ensures that the food is totally cleared of any bacteria, which makes the food safe for long periods.
4. What are the advantages of a long shelf-life?
Because of the brilliant packaging and thermal processing technology that we use, CUISINE AFRICANA products have long shelf lives. This has many advantages:
- It enables small specialist shops and convenience stores, which provide a valuable community service but may not have a quick turnaround of products, to stock our range.
- It is of great convenience benefit to the consumer, who can keep CUISINE AFRICANA in the store cupboard until needed, thereby getting all the benefits of a takeaway without having to travel at all.
- CUISINE AFRICANA helps prevents food wastage, which is costly to the environment as well as the consumer. Most chilled foods have a two to three day shelf life and must be thrown away after the sell by date.
- The pouch provides perfect protection for the nutrients, flavour and food quality of CUISINE AFRICANA dishes and because it is so lightweight (small footprint) it is a super-efficient way to safely store and distribute food.
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