Isla Bonita begins the 2019 Lima National campaign

The tropical and exotic fruit brand of Grupo Eurobanan, starts with the national lime campaign, predicting to distribute between 500,000 and 700,000 Kgs of Tahiti lime, grown in the southeast of the peninsula. The decrease in volume in kg and size of the fruit with respect to the previous year, is due to the late flowering of the crops, due to the delayed entry of spring in 2019. Despite these weather conditions, restriction in volume and size of the fruit, the company says that “the national file will be of excellent quality as in previous campaigns”.

The international markets of the lime are less active than in past campaigns, due to inclement weather such as torrential rains, floods and low temperatures, which have plagued Central America in recent months. To all this is added the retraction of the market due to the price of the lemon, whose decreasing cost makes it difficult to sell the lime.

The consumption of limes during the summer period is approximately 45% higher than the rest of the year thanks to the high number of cocktails and recipes that carry juice of this fruit. The boom that the restoration sector is currently experiencing, as well as the high interest in fusion cuisine, denotes the consolidated boom of this fruit, increasingly popular for its use in hundreds of recipes such as ceviches, guacamoles, sauces, etc, both in restaurants as in the kitchens of consumers.