Alpine Fresh: FACTS ABOUT FRENCH 

 

• Alpine Fresh has been growing, packing and shipping fresh French beans for nearly 10 years.

• Alpine grows, packs, and ships, over 7 million pounds of French beans annually.

• All Alpine Fresh French beans are hand harvested and snipped.  

 

Product Information

French Beans, or Haricots Verts (French for “French Bean”) are also referred to as French green beans, fine beans, and filet beans are a variety of green beans that is longer, thinner, crispier, and tenderer than your average green bean.

 

 

Handling

 

Temperature: 41°F

Humidity: 95%

Notes: Approximate freezing point 31.0° F. (-0.6° C.) French beans are sensitive to chilling injury. French beans may exhibit surface pitting and russeting when removed to warm temperatures if they have been held at temperatures of 3° C. or below. Chilling injury will exhibit itself as rusty brown specks and they may then become spotted and sticky when removed to warmer temperatures.