The Sabrosa Story:

Duane Thompson's passion for  salsa sparked in the mid-1990's after having a tough day. After the college football team he played for had a particularly awful game, Duane returned to his dorm room exhausted only to find that his friends had raided his fridge, including the bag of garden fresh vegetables his grandmother had delivered to him that morning. With the few vegetables and half a bag of tortilla chips he had left, Duane created his earliest version of Sabrosa salsa. Realizing that the snack he just created  left him without any of the stomach troubles he experienced from other salsas, he made it his mission to tweak his recipe in search for the perfect salsa.

By 2000, demand for his homemade salsa had grown so high that he decided to quit making the salsa altogether so he could figure out how to bring it to market while maintaining his standard of local, wholesome ingredients. In 2006, he founded Sabrosa (Spanish for "tasty") Foods Inc and began manufacturing his salsas in a co-packing plant in Virginia Beach.

The primary ingredient in his salsas are bell peppers instead of a tomato base common in many salsas, making his salsas a better option for heartburn sufferers. The naturally balanced pH makes Sabrosa salsas shelf stable for up to two years without the use of artificial preservatives. All of the produce in his salsas are fresh from local sources: "If you don't continue to harvest the farms around here, they'll go away," he says. "If you're buying local, you're growing  your own community." We couldn't agree more.

Today, Sabrosa Foods is focused on growing it’s product distribution both locally and internationally with a future interest in new product line acquisitions and strives to be the leader in the healthy, high end, natural food products industry while promoting sustainable business practices and environmental consciousness.

Mission:

Sabrosa Foods Inc.'s mission is simply to produce & provide healthy, all-natural foods through flavorful alternative gourmet condiments.

Facility:

Sabrosa Foods, Inc. is headquartered in the year-round Five Points Community Farm Market located at 2500 Church St., Norfolk, VA 23504. Phone: 757-640-0300

Distribution:

Sabrosa Foods is available to all 50 states and looking to expand in select international markets.