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Welcome to America, edamame American Sweet Bean Co. hopes for successful bean business in U.S. and Japanese markets
OLD FORT - The American Sweet Bean Co. likely is to have edamame on the shelves of some well-known grocery stores by this summer and is looking into exports to Japan.
"We're landing domestic markets," said founder and President Charles Fry. "We should have several hundred stores coming up pretty quickly in the next few months or so."
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Oh, beans: Local company looking to sweet beans as new cash crop for county farmers Charles Fry poses with an edamame plant during last August’s harvest. Seneca County is poised to become the nation's focal point in an emerging food-grade soybean crop called edamame - or sweet beans.
"We have the opportunity to become the edamame-growing region in the United States," said Charles Fry, who founded the American Sweet Bean Co. with his father, Jerry Fry. "It's there. We're just going to have to get on it."
Fry said edamame is to soybeans as sweet corn is to field corn. Read More...
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