Back when prunes were the Napa Valley’s star commodity, the Sunsweet Prune Packaging facility on Jackson Street was a bustling place. In the 1930s, Sunsweet was processing as much as 27,000 tons of ...

A lot can happen in the prune business over 100 years. You can lose your biggest export market in the run-up to World War II, yet rally in the postwar era to see almost half of your product shipped ...

Sunsweet Growers Inc., Fleetwood, located in nine buildings on 17 acres, is the national company’s second bottling facility. Founded in 1917, Sunsweet, a California-based cooperative, is headquartered ...

A large section of the former Sunsweet prune packaging plant on Jackson Street — damaged in the August earthquake — should see new life when it is rebuilt for commercial uses. Project applicants ...

YUBA CITY, CALIF. — Sunsweet Growers Inc. is expanding its existing offerings with the launch of three products. The company’s Sierra Trail Bites are designed to act as a source of plant-based ...

Sunsweet's D'Noir premium prune juice is tastier than the original thanks to select prunes. There's also a little blueberry juice and carrot juice in the mix. Sunsweet, the company that had the ...

Not only is the prune a good source of iron that aids with digestion, but it’s an especially important fruit, economically, in Yuba-Sutter. With more than 700 employees with year-round jobs, Sunsweet ...

Wrinkles can be cool — if you're a prune. Many of us have had a long love affair with our crinkly, locally grown prunes, even if they weren't considered the coolest fruit in the bunch. But that's ...

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