Anuga 2025: El Navarrico presents organic canned line for health-conscious premium consumers
13 Oct 2025 | El Navarrico
El Navarreco showcased its range of organically-grown canned products at Anuga 2025, including vegetables, pulses, and broths targeting high-end global B2B customers. We speak to Paz Salcedo López, the company’s purchasing manager, about the company’s offerings and its carbon footprint reduction through water recirculation technology.
Hello, I'm at Anuga 2025 speaking to Navarico, a Spanish canned ingredients supplier, and I'm speaking to the purchasing manager.
Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a bit about the company?
Hi, my name is Pat.
As you said, I'm purchasing manager in Conservas and Avarico.
We are a company with 60 years of history that is family owned, over the years.
We have developed different ranges of products that we think that fit perfectly with the consumer needs of today.
And what kind of products are you presenting at the show this year?
OK, so originally we started with some vegetable products locally served, and then we started extending our ranges to ingredients that we think that people demand right now.
I think as concern grows about.
Eating healthy, but at the same time, the time, the time limits in terms of what we can do at home is more of a of a problem we have developed like lines lines that can be cooked very easily at home, but they remain healthy and nutritious.
So for example, pulses like chickpeas, lentils, beans that they are already cooked but with nothing added, so it's water and salt.
So you can cook it on your own way.
We have also developed a new range of broth and stocks that basically you can either drunk like that or you can use them to cook stews or meat or rice, different things.
So basically solutions that we think that can make people's life easier at the same time that we don't compromise the quality and the healthy standards.
And you're a business to business supplier working with other businesses around the world.
We, we serve anything from retails, bigger or small like a small gourmet shop or it can be also retailers like big supermarkets and we also have bigger formats for restaurants and, and things like that.
And how do you stand out from other similar companies?
I think to us quality has always been very important.
The need of choosing.
Raw materials very , so from good suppliers that respect the environment and they don't have anything that is not needed and then with that you don't need to put anything that it wouldn't come when you cook at home.
So we try to choose our raw materials very , minimal intervention processes and the respect for the environment.
Interesting.
And can you elaborate a little bit more about steps you've taken to ensure your environmental sustainability as as meeting various regulations?
Sure, absolutely.
First of all, we try to buy as much as possible from around us to reduce our carbon footprint.
Then we are also certified in the ISO 1401, which basically is the environmental standards.
Review all of our process to make sure that year on year we make the improvements needed and we try to, for example, now we just introduced a new process.
We used to spend a lot of water when we with one particular machine, so we have managed to find a solution that recirculates the water so we don't have to use any more than is needed.
So I think it's a mix between care and innovation to make sure that our impact is.
Small as possible.
I see you have a number of certifications.
Which one would you say is the one you're most proud of or one that you would like to showcase?
I think that to us is the is the all of them bring a different aspect.
So the pride comes from having a team that actually managed to have such a high standard in everything and anything that we do and have that vision that always kind of takes you one step ahead.
I see.
And what are your main goals at Anuga this year?
We would like to basically know a bit more about importers and distributors all over Europe and the rest of the world because we think that although we already export at 26 countries, there is so much of the world.
I would like to take our products to that is such a great opportunity to basically introduce us and meet new clients.
Is there anything else that you would like to talk about maybe or highlight?
OK, I think that to us.
For me the important bit is to say that we are a company with 60 years of history that has managed to remain current in a climate that is super competitive and that sometimes is not particularly kind with medium sized companies.
So I think that it's important to us to be grateful to our clients because they trust us every day and and thank you so much for your time.
