Boosting its spicy offerings as of late, Oppy has added garlic from Spain to its product mix amid organic ginger success.

Arriving on both the east and west coasts, Oppy’s conventional Spanish garlic is available year-round in bulk and three-pack mesh bags. Varieties include pure white, spring white, spring violet and morado in a range of sizes — Oppy is exploring further options, including black garlic.

The I Love Produce team spent a week inspecting the new crop garlic coming into the harvest season in Mendoza, Argentina, and got a dose of the World Cup and soccer culture to boot.

Jim Provost and Sebastian Zamores spent a week visiting their garlic suppliers in Mendoza, which happened to coincide with Argentina’s quarterfinal World Cup match against the Netherlands.

Maurice A. Auerbach Inc., is a known and trusted name in garlic, having been one of the East Coast’s top garlic companies for more than eight decades.

Packing its products under the AuerPak brand name, the company imports garlic from all over the world, including organic garlic from California and Mexico, bringing in Spanish-peeled, California-peeled and Mexican-peeled garlic.

Spice World continues to innovate with new packaging for the brand of garlic consumers have trusted for more than 70 years. The new labels are color-coded to help shoppers identify the key attributes of each product — and now the iconic “little blue jar” truly is blue and has a bold look that’s even easier to spot throughout the produce department.

Christopher Ranch is among the nation’s largest garlic growers, and while it does ship a variety of products, garlic represents more than 90 percent of its business.

Garlic was a must-have product during the pandemic. As the rise of in-home dining and amateur chefs popped up consumers cooked with garlic like never before.

Grocery stores saw garlic demand reach record highs, and some found it hard to keep in stock, even as prices continued to rise. The rise in sales created a shortage of aromatic garlic bulbs at the supermarket and saw prices of both jumbo-size and conventional jumbo 30-pound carton of white garlic more than double in price.