Spice World Inc. in Orlando, FL, which introduced a processed garlic product it calls Squeeze Garlic a year or so ago in a 20-ounce bottle.

Squeeze Garlic is minced garlic in a convenient, easy-to-use squeeze bottle.

“We are always doing new things,” said Louis Hymel, director of purchasing. Now “we are packing a nine-and-a half-ounce size of the Squeeze Organic, which is a new product for us.”

In addition, the company is now doing “a squeeze garlic packed in extra virgin olive oil, which really accents that product well,” he said.

Spice World is “a 100 percent A Spice World Squeeze Garlic display. The company is now offering a 9.5-ounce size of the product.vertically integrated company,” Mr. Hymel said.”We have a seed program up in Oregon and grow all our own garlic in the Central Valley of California. We produce the whole bulbs, we produce the peeled garlic, and we do the ready-to-use garlic — minced, chopped, packed in jars.” Those are products “we have had now for about 28 years. And now we have had the Squeeze garlic for the last couple of years.”

The company grows and packs both conventional and organic garlic and garlic products in “a variety of sizes for retail and foodservice, and also industrial sizes,” he said.

In addition to the California garlic that is company-grown, Spice World also sources some garlic from China. “We are predominantly California growers, so we push California, but we offer Chinese garlic whenever anyone wants Chinese garlic,” he said. “We have an employee in China. Everything is tested by a third-party European-owned company in China, and then we validate all tests here in the United States.”

Whenever any samples of Spice World’s product are pulled for testing in China, Mr. Hymel said, “it is either done by our employee or it is done by the laboratory,” and the samples are pulled randomly. They are “not sent directly from the factory to the lab for testing.”

Spice World is continuously making improvements to its facilities, Mr. Hymel said. “We just built an addition of about 40,000 square feet of cold storage at our California facility in Coalinga, which gives us a lot more storage ability for carrying California garlic year-round for people that want it. That is one of our latest improvements.”

In addition, “we always look to improve packaging,” he said.

Sustainability is “always a key issue, and we are always looking to improve in that arena,” he added.

Spice World’s California garlic crop is “a good crop this year” with excellent quality, he said on July 27. It “could use a little bit more size” but does have “some size. We have already finished width our Early variety” and “are currently harvesting” the Late variety, he added.